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0 pointscnp10y ago0 comments

Here's to hoping people realize and deal with the real gateway drug: Alcohol, that great destroyer of worlds, marriages, cultures, physical health and particularly the brain, time (hangovers, boredom), coping strategies (emotional pain), real pain (coping strategies), poor decision making (you know it), and so on. Start here, and come into it with a few entrenched problems, and sure enough you'll find yourself elsewhere should time and circumstance align.

To all the magical, healing drugs that are currenly illegal: may you one day be free. http://www.economist.com/blogs/dailychart/2010/11/drugs_caus...

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jacobolus10y ago

Alcohol, in small doses (0.5–2 drinks) is a pretty good anxiolytic.

rl310y ago

This. Problem is some people sober up fast after that little, so a continual low-level intake can be required.

That said, I've found I'm more productive with whiskey than without lately.

vectorjohn10y ago

Gotta hit that Ballmer peak[0]!

[0] https://xkcd.com/323/

eru10y ago

That's a dangerous slope you are sliding down there..

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tamana10y ago

What would happen to those rankings of meth and heroin were sold at every grocery store?

Alcohol takes a lot of blame because it is the most accessible and cheapest drug.

MichaelGG10y ago

Methamphetamine is sold at grocery stores (Safeway, Target, several others), at least according to a quick search:

http://www.goodrx.com/desoxyn?drug-name=desoxyn

alexbecker10y ago

This is misleading; it's sold at grocery store pharmacies, but only with a prescription. As a Schedule II drug the controls are much tighter than normal drugs, including strict regulations on who can prescribe such drugs and secondary verification for new prescriptions. In NY (and soon more states), they can only be prescribed electronically using approved security measures.

oldsj10y ago

Wow its not even masked under a different name, just straight methamphetamine for sale

nostromo10y ago

Alcohol has costs, but it also has benefits.

Looking at only one side of the equation doesn't make for fair analysis.

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golergka10y ago

> Here's to hoping people realize and deal with the real gateway drug

I think they already tried a certain approach, about hundred years ago

cnpOP10y ago

Point isn't to ban it, just to be honest about what we're dealing with so as to better understand the dangers and / or benefits of other drugs and approaches.

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0 pointscnp10y ago0 comments

To all the magical, healing drugs that are currenly illegal: may you one day be free. http://www.economist.com/blogs/dailychart/2010/11/drugs_caus...

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jacobolus10y ago

Alcohol, in small doses (0.5–2 drinks) is a pretty good anxiolytic.

rl310y ago

This. Problem is some people sober up fast after that little, so a continual low-level intake can be required.

That said, I've found I'm more productive with whiskey than without lately.

vectorjohn10y ago

Gotta hit that Ballmer peak[0]!

[0] https://xkcd.com/323/

eru10y ago

That's a dangerous slope you are sliding down there..

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tamana10y ago

What would happen to those rankings of meth and heroin were sold at every grocery store?

Alcohol takes a lot of blame because it is the most accessible and cheapest drug.

MichaelGG10y ago

Methamphetamine is sold at grocery stores (Safeway, Target, several others), at least according to a quick search:

http://www.goodrx.com/desoxyn?drug-name=desoxyn

alexbecker10y ago

oldsj10y ago

Wow its not even masked under a different name, just straight methamphetamine for sale

nostromo10y ago

Alcohol has costs, but it also has benefits.

Looking at only one side of the equation doesn't make for fair analysis.

1 more reply

golergka10y ago

> Here's to hoping people realize and deal with the real gateway drug

I think they already tried a certain approach, about hundred years ago

cnpOP10y ago

Point isn't to ban it, just to be honest about what we're dealing with so as to better understand the dangers and / or benefits of other drugs and approaches.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse