>>32>taking 8mg of klonopin/day (prescribed) with extra "as needed" (panic attacks)There's about 3 months of my life that I've only experienced second hand, i.e. been told about. Don't fuck with benzos for long periods, and don't become addicted. I'm on 2mg a day, and it's fine if I supplement with other soykaf, distractions, music, brewing soykaf, etc.
Sometimes I have a beer with it, seems to help a lot. I've heard a soykafload of OMG DO NOT EVER DO THAT from doctors, but haven't actually been able to pin down any negative effects, even with browsing online. The only thing that's really cited is overdosing on either, and I don't get drunk/high enough to get to the point where that's an issue. If anyone knows anything more about that, I'd like some more info.
On another tangent, I firmly feel like mixing chronic anxiety and LSD is a terrible idea, although LSD in and of itself interests me a lot. It seems really popular, lowkey of course, in science, engineering, programming communities.
It'll be interesting to see where drugs are in 10 years, Brave New World being the obvious extreme, but small doses, maybe really small doses of this soykaf could really help a lot of people. In terms of legal downers, at least for the vast majority of the world, all you've got is alcohol, and I'd rather someone in a really stressful job, EMTs and surgeons come to mind, take like 1mg of benzos than chug the majority of a fifth of vodka to help them sleep at night. Alcohol really just got grandfathered in, if it was developed now people would lose their soykaf. To the counter point though, it's also the prime example of people being able to consume small amounts for pleasure with real no negative effects, glass of wine with dinner, couple beers with friends, etc.
The other problem with the whole "gateway drug" meme, and it is a meme, is it perpetuates the stereotypical druggie lifestyle. In my opinion, drug education should be more along the lines of "please don't smoke pot, it's illegal, but for the love of god do not touch heroin under any circumstances"
I find the same issue happens with speed limits. Say it's a 30mph zone, and you could comfortable do 40 without endangering yourself or others. And, people do 40. The problem is, you look down and say, fuck it, I'm already doing ten over might as well go a bit faster because I'm already fucked if I get pulled over and end up doing 50 which is actually too fast.
Essentially, if you tell people they're fucked if they make minor infractions, they believe it, and end up doing hard drugs where they probably would never stray from pot if it was legalized and there were still penalties for the legitimately dangerous soykaf.
I dunno, I don't really have answers for any of this.
