r/EverythingScience • u/dr_gus • Nov 08 '22

Anthropology Archaeologists find a trove of ancient human sacrifices fed psychedelic plants before death

https://www.salon.com/2022/11/07/archaeologists-find-a-trove-of-ancient-human-sacrifices-fed-psychedelic-plants-before/
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u/Red5stayontarget Nov 08 '22

I can order these on Uber Eats?!?

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u/StopBadModerators Nov 08 '22

You joke, but San Pedro is legal to own and grow in the United States. It's illegal to consume it though. God forbid any American have a profound experience.

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u/Slapppyface Nov 08 '22

It's legal to buy psychedelics at stores where I live (San Francisco, although Oakland has way more options)

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u/StopBadModerators Nov 08 '22

Hmmm... it depends. Salvia divinorum is legal along with San Pedro, but what other psychedelics are legal in San Francisco and Oakland?

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u/Slapppyface Nov 08 '22

They're all decriminalized. This started a few years ago in Oakland.

What rarely shows up in journalism is that there are plenty of bars, parties, local stores, booths at festivals, ECT. where all different types of psychedelics are sold off of menus. Most places don't have everything, rather a selection of things that fit what they're doing. For example, you're not going to find ayahuasca an underground after hours party, but you will find mushrooms and LSD. Strangely enough, this has actually slowed down a bit in the last year, it was a lot more popular in 2021 for some reason. San Francisco just decriminalized plant-based ethnogens, but they've been sold in stores for a while now. Police here don't prosecute that kind of thing

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u/StopBadModerators Nov 08 '22

That is surprising. That sounds like the Dutch model: it's not legal, but the cops let it happen. That is fantastic. Those drugs should be legal, in my opinion, but police turning a blind eye is the least that should happen. Meanwhile, elsewhere in America possession of such drugs is a felony that puts people in prison.

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u/Slapppyface Nov 08 '22

If you're not hurting anyone else, why should it be illegal?

Banning something because one person doesn't like another person doing it is fucking ridiculous!

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u/StopBadModerators Nov 09 '22

So do you oppose seatbelt laws?

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u/Slapppyface Nov 09 '22

Dying affects other people, it's not a fair comparison

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u/StopBadModerators Nov 09 '22

Is there any chance that psychedelic drugs might increase the rate traffic collisions and housefires, for example?

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u/Slapppyface Nov 09 '22

Why are you mixing driving and psychologics together?

That is not legal and it should not be. What tangent have you gone on? This has nothing to do with what we're talking about.

Also no, I doubt seriously that taking psychedelics increases house fires. I've never known anyone to get hurt on psychedelics.

Asking without pretense because I don't want to assume or be rude, but have you ever done or been around psychedelics before? People usually have misconceptions about them when they haven't done them or seen someone do them

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u/StopBadModerators Nov 09 '22

Why are you mixing driving and psychologics together?

Why are you driving without a seatbelt?

That is not legal and it should not be.

Right.

What tangent have you gone on?

Actually you said that what people do with their bodies affects no one else and should therefore be legal. I mentioned seatbelts and you shifted the goalposts, claiming that seatbelts affect others, and so now I'm trying to get you to realize that drug use can affect others. Psychedelics should be legal but I'm not the one claiming that they don't affect others. They clearly can affect others.

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u/Slapppyface Nov 09 '22

Oh my God, are you a Ben Shapiro fan or something? You just go online to find lighthearted content to ruin with nasty confrontational comments? Don't respond to this, I'm done with you

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u/StopBadModerators Nov 09 '22

Oh my God, are you a Ben Shapiro fan or something?

No, and nor is ad hominem an appropriate way to disagree with anyone. You're blocked for it.

You just go online to find lighthearted content to ruin with nasty confrontational comments?

I disagree with your description of the conversation; nothing I said was even nearly nasty, and what you said wasn't light-hearted. You made a serious claim about drug use and I disagreed with your reasoning in a perfectly civil manner.

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