Comment · Tue, April 2, 2013
young children doing drugs
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Brainsailor · 13 points
The other day I met someone who claimed to start smoking weed at the age of four. I'm sure that was bullshit, but it made me think about the ethics of letting children/making children do drugs. What kind of drug do you think would be the best for a child? What do you think psychedelic use such as acid, shrooms, or DMT would do to a child's simplistic worldview? I've never really had a full on discussion about it, except to know that most people say it's wrong.
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DuckTruck · 1 points
That's true, but haven't you seen the inverse as well, widely held 'truths' being shattered by personal experience? It seems a two way process to me.
u/MisterYouAreSoDumb
Yes sir, on a personal level I have. On a societal level, not really. There's a connection with my mom that I cannot explain with verifiable fact. Sometimes she wakes up at the exact same time I do, dreaming the same thing. I live in Arizona and she lives in Ohio. It happened when I was little, and still happens to this day. She calls me up and asked if I woke up dreaming about X at a certain time, and I am blown back by it. At least I used to be blown back by it. I can't explain why it happens.
Another phenomenon is that whenever I go out at night, lights turn off when I pass. It's only when I am spacing out thinking about other things. If I try and focus on the lights, it does not happen. However, it literally happens almost every single night, in hundreds of cities across the world. It happens with filament lights, sodium lights, potassium lights. It only happens outside, though. It never happens to indoor light bulbs. People thought I was crazy when I told them. However, I started mentioning it when it happened and I was out with them. Now they see it first hand. I have no fucking clue why it happens.
So yes, on an individual level there are many personal experiences that I know to be true but cannot base in fact. However, I think that large societal decisions, like child drug use, should be based in verifiable fact.