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The hazy evolution of cannabis
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Amid marijuana legalization, a civic problem lingers: that smell
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Christiania, Copenhagen's hippie oasis, wants to rebuild without its illegal hashish market
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Germany legalizes recreational cannabis use
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Oregon decriminalized drugs. Voters now regret it.
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The cheapest cocaine on Earth?
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Germany's new cannabis law to pass this week and take effect in April
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US FDA recommends easing restrictions on marijuana
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US President Joe Biden pardons thousands on federal marijuana charges, commutes others
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Whats a drug that you would never try?
For me its meth. I had an online friend who developed schizophrenia and addiction from it. As well as it just seeming unappealing to me I think the risk from using it are too much.
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One woman's controversial fight to make America accept drug users for who they are
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‘The tsunami just keeps coming’: Europe’s growing cocaine market
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A closer look at Kowloon Walled City in Hong Kong, the most densely populated place that ever existed
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Scottish officials approve UK’s first drug consumption room intended for safer use of illegal drugs
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Oregon launches legal psilocybin access amid high demand and hopes for improved mental health care
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Many people think cannabis smoke is harmless − a physician explains how that belief can put people at risk
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Copenhagen's mayor has urged foreigners not to buy weed in the city's Christiania neighborhood where a thirty-year-old man was shot and killed
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'Like Snoop Dogg's living room': Smell of pot wafts over notorious US Open court
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Residents of the Danish neighbourhood of Christiania have asked authorities for help shutting down its Pusher Street after a slew of recent gang-related murders
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The psychedelic drug that conquered Europe
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Which recreational and/or illegal drugs have you tried? Why and how did it happen?
This topic allows no mention of means to obtain drugs or endorses the use of it. It only asks for people who have experiences they are willing to share. I'm referring to recreational and/or...
This topic allows no mention of means to obtain drugs or endorses the use of it. It only asks for people who have experiences they are willing to share.
I'm referring to recreational and/or illegal substances.
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Residents of Christiania in Denmark may vote to end open cannabis trade over fears of rising gang violence
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Giant California greenhouse signals a big bet on cannabis legalization
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Amsterdam bans cannabis in its red light district
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British Columbia embarks on bold experiment to decriminalize hard drugs - Possession of small amounts of fentanyl, heroin, cocaine and other hard drugs will be allowed in Canada’s westernmost province
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I thought sex parties would free my sexuality. The reality was more dystopian than utopian
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Brittney Griner moved to Russian penal colony, lawyer says
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Germany plans to legalise recreational cannabis
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The weed influencer and the scientist feuding over why some stoners incessantly puke
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Brittney Griner pleads guilty to Russian drugs charge
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Minnesota lawmakers voted to legalize THC edibles. Some did it accidentally.
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Germany moves ahead with plan to legalize cannabis sales
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"37 Seconds" - Legalize Marijuana - Gary Chambers political ad
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More young kids are getting sick from cannabis edibles
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Our ladies of the perpetual high
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Malta becomes first EU nation to legalise cannabis for recreational use
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Is weed now legal in Germany?
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The new meth: Different chemically than it was a decade ago, the drug is creating a wave of severe mental illness and worsening America’s homelessness problem
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Vihreä liitto become first party in the Finnish Parliament to call for legalisation of cannabis – initiative approved at party conference by narrowest possible majority 183-181
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For decades, poppers have been the go-to sex drug for gay men. But where do they come from?
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Weed shouldn’t be banned for elite athletes, some experts say
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'Woke coke': Drug dealers marketing 'ethically sourced' cocaine
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What separates people that have positive and negative experiences with drugs? Which drugs tend to give people more positive or negative experiences?
(I don't personally have any interest in trying much of anything if anyone interprets this post as such. And yes, 'drugs' is a general/vague and loaded term and I might be asking too much in a...
(I don't personally have any interest in trying much of anything if anyone interprets this post as such. And yes, 'drugs' is a general/vague and loaded term and I might be asking too much in a single topic)
My opinion on drug legalization was generally summed up as pro-legalization, but really because just banning everything doesn't work and generally just understood drugs as bad.
However, I often hear people talking about drugs as giving them new experiences, enhancing sensations and generally being fun.
However, being Brazilian/Latin American, drugs here are often associated with illegal traffic, gangs, poverty, crime, among other bad things and, unlike in the US and Europe, this is generally something that is exterior to us, nor a position held overwhelmingly by social conservatives who rant about "the devil's lettuce", because it affects poor people (although, yes, that's also true in the US).
So back to the title question:
What separates people that have positive and negative experiences with drugs?
The 3 obvious differences are:
The drugs used. Drug gangs traffic stuff like cocaine and areas like [the] Cracolândia are populated by people dependent on crack, while people advocate for legalization of weed or psychedelics which are very different and "weed is no worse than alcohol" is confirmed to be truth and has been for a while. A question I have concerning this is what separates 'good' drugs from 'bad' drugs?
Preparation, since obviously you don't want to be high at work
(or asking for help on a Tildes thread, that happened.)A question I have in that area is what preparations do people take before taking weed or DMT and other drugs.Their motivations for taking drugs, since a lot of the bad examples come from people taking drugs to fill holes in their lives, while good examples are the vast majority of the time recreational (aka, for fun.)
Are there any other differences anyone wants to delineate?
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New Zealand voters approve euthanasia but reject recreational marijuana
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An archaeology of marijuana
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The "date-rape drug" narrative has been weaponized against recreational GHB users
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Exponential adoption of solar power by opium-growers in Afghanistan
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Hey Tilderinos, what's your favorite cannabis strain?
I've been progressively getting more excited about cannabis over the past year or so; we had a chat about drugs a while back, I figured we could try one specifically about cannabis. I've been...
I've been progressively getting more excited about cannabis over the past year or so; we had a chat about drugs a while back, I figured we could try one specifically about cannabis.
I've been really enjoying Durban Poison lately, I tend towards feeling compassionate and really loving and open to folks around me, though that depends somewhat on context. Jack Herer and derivatives have been nice as well, but they're more for tasks that need some focus like programming or writing.
I've been trying a couple indica/evening leaning strains lately, but I haven't found one that I've really loved (my ulterior motive for starting this thread).
We should probably start a ~talk.casual, but maybe all talk on tildes is somewhat causal, and that's cool too, Also, this is aspie special interest territory for me, so if y'all don't think about this as much, I can do strain recs if that'd be something that was nice for you. Though, I don't some (relatively) that much, so someone on the internet could probably do that better.
Also, yes, I know that COVID-19 falls under SARS; I already got the gentle warnings from my dad.
(edit: thanks whoever tagged nsfw.drugs! Also the cannabis tag makes more sense as well)
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Chemists at some of the biggest legal cannabis companies are after an elusive prize: a predictable, reliable product
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