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Morphine cured alcohlism in 1817. Cocaine cured morphine addiction in 1884. LSD cured alcoholism in 1960.

Detect the pattern.



The destructive consequences of alcohol or morphine addiction are in no small regard caused by the fact that it's possible to indulge in the drug daily, and therefore it is easy to completely lose yourself in the cycle of drug use.

This problem does not occur with LSD, since LSD tolerance builds up incredibly fast. It is simply not practical to use it more often than once a week, and even this frequency is unusual with most users, since longer periods of abstinence between trips have a very direct and positive influence on the quality of the experience. Most regular users are very well aware of this, and their usage patterns reflect this fact.

There is no pattern to be found in what you described, since LSD is a dramatically different kind of drug compared to the other two you mentioned.


Taking acid once a week will do bad things to you. Worse than morphine.


You keep making this point, but it's a straw man. The issue is whether we ought to study these drugs for therapeutic usages, and what such studies find.


LSD isn't addictive.


> LSD isn't addictive.

You could just as much try to claim that WoW, gambling or food aren't "addictive".


You can have WoW, gambling, and food everyday but the way LSD works is, that you can't. It builds tolerance quickly.


I doubt you understand how different kinds of addictions work...


I doubt you understand how tryptamine tolerance works in the human body.


Increasing amounts of evidence?




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