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Psychedelic drugs.
I’m sorry, but I feel that any person who uses psychedelics recreationally is in need of serious mental help. It’s not normal, and it shouldn’t be considered normal. How can it be? The fact that these psychedelics are illegal shows that there’s something wrong with them. What I don’t get is, what makes people start?
So, they make you hallucinate. They make you see extremely weird visions and mess with your mind. Again, why would any self-respecting person do something so obviously wrong as that? Do these people not care about their sanity? Are they really that self-destructive? It sounds horrifyingly disturbing to use them, and the fact that people talk about it as if it’s normal, is, to me, a sign that there’s something very wrong with them. They are both using criminal substances, and the drug’s effects are bizarre, unnatural and nightmarish. Doesn’t that idea sound wrong to them? These people are criminals, and are corrupting their brains. That’s incredibly risky as the brain is fragile.
They are illegal. Therefore, to obtain these drugs, you have to break the law. You have to visit a drug dealer. Drug dealers are criminals. In other words, you have to lower yourself to the level of a criminal, a person who commits crimes, to do that. Why do people not feel deeply uncomfortable and ashamed that they are supporting criminal activity? When I was educated about drugs in school, I just assumed that not using them is the obvious, popular, conclusion. They’re illegal, they’re bad for you, so obviously avoid them.
How can these people live with themselves that they are law-breakers?
If I used illegal drugs, I'd be deeply ashamed of myself.