My biggest issue with drugs that make you feel good is that they can also make you feel good when you should be feeling bad. Alcohol has the same problem, but I’d argue that it is not able to make people feel as good and without less risk to oneself.

Sometimes you do have to feel like shit because things are like shit, and that might create wild mood swings but drugs up the precipice and create a dependency, making those situations even worse. Sometimes you just shouldn’t associate or be open to the perception of “transcendental experiences”, basically shifting the weights of good and bad in your brain, in mundane or shitty situations. And if you use them when things are good, it can be too tempting to use them when things are bad or stressful. I don’t consider drug junkies a problem because it is illegal, I consider them a problem because of what the drugs do to them psychologically, potentially adverse health side effects aside. I know too many people who become self-indulgent pricks because of drugs.

We barely are able to manage alcohol abuse and dependency, and are now adding a more potent drug into the mix. It does have a lot of potential for medical use, but I don’t want to begin drinking something and having something in my body I don’t want or that it becomes easier for people to spike in to “lighten the mood” too. Hopefully it is kept in check when it passes, but if it passes everywhere, it won’t be just predominantly a case of tourism cannabis like in Amsterdam.