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It seems like every few weeks there's an article on how drugs are amazing hitting the front-page.

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Where do you go when you need to escape but can't actually go anywhere?

Inwards. Imagination, media, substances, meditation, solitude.

To an extent I feel your position, and it can be true in many contexts. I would say, however, that taking a trip to a far off country, and dropping acid serve two different purposes. While I'm sure there's some overlap, you won't get the entirety of the experience from either one exclusively.

HN has some peculiar medical fixations. It comes in waves. For a while there were a lot of submissions about intermittent fasting. 15 years ago people were excited about polyphasic sleep. 10 years ago it was all about modafinil. Enthusiasm about ketamine for depression was big, but it seems to have finally fizzled out.

Wonder what the approach would be to empirically determine these waves.

Ketamine is still used for depression quite effectively.

It's good that techbros' interest in it fizzled out though. Better for everyone that way.

"Drugs" can cure polio and dysentary; alleviate headaches and menstrual cramps; lower blood pressure; and regulate brain biochemistry in ways that make dysfunctional people able to function again. And sometimes they enable happy feelings.

Yes, drugs are amazing.

Well... drugs are amazing. They're so amazing people will literally die for them.

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