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Comment by trabant00 | Hacker News Reader

A sysadmin colleague of mine once put it best: "The trouble with drugs is they make every thought return exit code 0".

I think in a generation or so we will look back to all this positive press drugs get these days and wonder what the hell where people smoking.

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Ahh yes, all drugs do the same thing and are all bad right? Caffeine should be banned.

I found that I experienced something similar on stuff as light as adderal/vyvanse/focalin or cigarettes.

As someone who has taken most of the stuff out there I agree with trabant that they help return exit 0, and think it's proportional to the euphoria the drug produces.

I don't think we need to ban them but we need to be honest with ourselves that we're sticking cattle prods in our brains, and to enjoy them for what they are :)

Perhaps I should have included /s Prohibition is not the answer, and while programming comparisons may have their place, comparing thoughts to a program is not accurate, especially when discussing psychoactive compounds. Different drugs do vastly different things in the brain.

That’s just it though, drugs don’t make “every” thought return 0. Psychedelics often reveal the recursive or “loop-y” nature of our thought processes.

Drugs do not reveal anything, they change how signals are processed. Thought loops are a very common effect with 5ht agonists and nmda antagonists.

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