These leaves are illegal for the same reason the internet should be illegal: artificial activation of dopaminergic response could cause destructive cognitive associations and eventually lead to incurable depression and permanent mushmind.
Coca leaves are harmless and beautiful and that's a fact.
I think my theory is much closer, no offense.
It's only a plant, man. How much do you really expect to be able to put on it? If you don't want to eat coca leaves, then don't. It's a fucking leaf so you're not going to be able to do the " -----------> crack" thing here. This post is calling that mentality out.
Should alcohol be illegal because of all of the fucking deaths it DEFINITELY causes literally every few minutes around the clock year after year after year? Why, of course not.
But something that gives you a NATURAL and SIDE-EFFECT FREE euphoria should be illegal though. Guilt by association.
I think if you looked it up for yourself, you'd find that as a substance, coca is actually AT LEAST as good for you as 95% of the "nutritional" garbage they sell at your local grocery store.
Happy Thanksgiving though.
Death tally :
Alcohol -------> millions and millions and millions
You know, despite the embargo, I have some anyway so personally, today, I don't have any skin in this game, just saying.
I wish you the best and truly meant no offense.
By the way, here's a picture of the illegal little bastards straight from the B to O to the L I VIA and these just so happen to have a light dusting of the most delightful banana flavor!
It's (their word) "tolerated" along with the coca candies.
I've not received shipments from Peru though under the guise of "drug precursor." I also HAVE received shipments of the exact same thing. It's unpredictable. I've amassed a stash now and found a domestic connection now. They are TOO LATE. HAHA! Happy Thanksgiving, homegirl.
Why wouldn't you chew coca leaves? It's THE GOVERNMENT OF THE US that demonized it and for the sole reason of turning a beautiful plant into a demon specifically for THEIR OWN PEOFIT. Funny how millions and millions of people chew the stuff with no incident whatsoever and, in fact, it could be considered the oft-spoken about "soma" that Huxley was referring to.
And especially ironic that they flipped this perfect plant into a substance that ruins lives all day every day (comment if you DON'T know a crackhead or ten in your daily life) but practically never KILLS anyone. Wow. How convenient, right? That CIA
They did the demon plant things for cannabis as well.
It's one of the primary reasons I had a low regard for authority at a young age. I found it especially appalling considered how much people drank. Even in Baltimore...there's always the crack jokes, but the real killer and problem was alcohol. Sure, deaths by opioids pile up, but alcohol is a big part of the violence in the city, contributes to obesity, other health problems, etc.
I've never heard about coca in relation to soma, mainly because I don't think the location is right (wasn't soma in like afghanistan or a bit west of that?). I've never read the doors of perception or anything though, I've only read bits about soma here and there online.
I always got the vibe that soma didn't exist per-se, or Huxley wasn't speaking of a particular substance. I was one of the people who took major offense when they named the drug "Soma." It isn't.
We haven't found the drug that works perfectly for everything with no consequences or side-effects. Coca is pretty close though, as is kratom.
First you have to strip away the comparisons they make between "addiction" and "dependence." By their standards, everyone is a drug-seeker and the only thing you can be once you're that is a "junkie." An old lady can take 200 mg. of oxycodone every day and no one bats an eye, even if it KILLS her. If I have a toothache and score a couple of percs to get some sleep, I'm a junkie. Stigma is a motherfucker. I haven't taken opiates in going on seven years. I discovered Gabapentin is WAAAAAAY cheaper and works exponentially better than opiates for a toothache.
This is my opinion. Maybe a plant has tricked me and I'm addicted. Or MAYBE I need the plant to function and do my job due to untreated (more like unconcerning in every way to the doctors I've "seen.") pain issues. What do they want? For me to sit at home until I put a bullet in my head rather than take the powdered leaves of a fucking TREE because they are apparently "dangerous" even through they have literally NO PROOF OR DEATHS RELATED TO KRATOM? Sorry. I'm not going to do that.
These leaves are illegal for the same reason the internet should be illegal: artificial activation of dopaminergic response could cause destructive cognitive associations and eventually lead to incurable depression and permanent mushmind.
I disagree.
Coca leaves are harmless and beautiful and that's a fact.
I think my theory is much closer, no offense.
It's only a plant, man. How much do you really expect to be able to put on it? If you don't want to eat coca leaves, then don't. It's a fucking leaf so you're not going to be able to do the " -----------> crack" thing here. This post is calling that mentality out.
Should alcohol be illegal because of all of the fucking deaths it DEFINITELY causes literally every few minutes around the clock year after year after year? Why, of course not.
But something that gives you a NATURAL and SIDE-EFFECT FREE euphoria should be illegal though. Guilt by association.
I think if you looked it up for yourself, you'd find that as a substance, coca is actually AT LEAST as good for you as 95% of the "nutritional" garbage they sell at your local grocery store.
Happy Thanksgiving though.
Death tally :
Alcohol -------> millions and millions and millions
Coca leaf --------------> zero.
Why?
It's simply not fucking dangerous.
I'm sold. There wasn't anything you said that I disagree with.
You know, despite the embargo, I have some anyway so personally, today, I don't have any skin in this game, just saying.
I wish you the best and truly meant no offense.
By the way, here's a picture of the illegal little bastards straight from the B to O to the L I VIA and these just so happen to have a light dusting of the most delightful banana flavor!
https://ibb.co/YhG0dr7
I can't recall specifics, but you can get it in tea form. It passes through customs just fine.
It's (their word) "tolerated" along with the coca candies.
I've not received shipments from Peru though under the guise of "drug precursor." I also HAVE received shipments of the exact same thing. It's unpredictable. I've amassed a stash now and found a domestic connection now. They are TOO LATE. HAHA! Happy Thanksgiving, homegirl.
One of my students went to Machu Picchu and they chewed coca leaves on the ascent.
The kid was 14.
It actually helps alleviate high altitude issues
Why wouldn't you chew coca leaves? It's THE GOVERNMENT OF THE US that demonized it and for the sole reason of turning a beautiful plant into a demon specifically for THEIR OWN PEOFIT. Funny how millions and millions of people chew the stuff with no incident whatsoever and, in fact, it could be considered the oft-spoken about "soma" that Huxley was referring to. And especially ironic that they flipped this perfect plant into a substance that ruins lives all day every day (comment if you DON'T know a crackhead or ten in your daily life) but practically never KILLS anyone. Wow. How convenient, right? That CIA
They did the demon plant things for cannabis as well.
It's one of the primary reasons I had a low regard for authority at a young age. I found it especially appalling considered how much people drank. Even in Baltimore...there's always the crack jokes, but the real killer and problem was alcohol. Sure, deaths by opioids pile up, but alcohol is a big part of the violence in the city, contributes to obesity, other health problems, etc.
I've never heard about coca in relation to soma, mainly because I don't think the location is right (wasn't soma in like afghanistan or a bit west of that?). I've never read the doors of perception or anything though, I've only read bits about soma here and there online.
I always got the vibe that soma didn't exist per-se, or Huxley wasn't speaking of a particular substance. I was one of the people who took major offense when they named the drug "Soma." It isn't.
We haven't found the drug that works perfectly for everything with no consequences or side-effects. Coca is pretty close though, as is kratom.
First you have to strip away the comparisons they make between "addiction" and "dependence." By their standards, everyone is a drug-seeker and the only thing you can be once you're that is a "junkie." An old lady can take 200 mg. of oxycodone every day and no one bats an eye, even if it KILLS her. If I have a toothache and score a couple of percs to get some sleep, I'm a junkie. Stigma is a motherfucker. I haven't taken opiates in going on seven years. I discovered Gabapentin is WAAAAAAY cheaper and works exponentially better than opiates for a toothache.
This is my opinion. Maybe a plant has tricked me and I'm addicted. Or MAYBE I need the plant to function and do my job due to untreated (more like unconcerning in every way to the doctors I've "seen.") pain issues. What do they want? For me to sit at home until I put a bullet in my head rather than take the powdered leaves of a fucking TREE because they are apparently "dangerous" even through they have literally NO PROOF OR DEATHS RELATED TO KRATOM? Sorry. I'm not going to do that.