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If you think "but everything alters your chemical makeup" is a sufficient rebuttal, you're mistaken for the outlined reasons above. There's simply no more to say about it and I'm not going to get drawn into a pointless debate over mind altering substances as a recreational outlet or how it "enhances your mind" when all it's proven is otherwise.

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>If you think "but everything alters your chemical makeup" is a sufficient rebuttal

Considering that the original claim had no depth to it what so ever other than attempting to grandstand, it is odd you feel to have two completely different standards here. You have to point out why it isn't a sufficient rebuttal other than saying it doesn't. Time for some intellectual honesty. Or you can just blanket label people that consume certain things as having a "crutch" with absolutely no basis for such a claim.

> when all it's proven is otherwise.

Where's the evidence for this?

Do any amount of research on it in reputable scientific papers and studies on the subject will get you an answer in short order.

I'm finding the exact opposite? Do you have any concrete examples that you would care to provide in the spirit of intellectual honesty?

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