• Stalinwolf@lemmy.caEnglish
    3 months

    It probably would have helped. Honestly, someone needs to get all of the world leaders tripping balls in one place. I, for one, would welcome a shaman-led society.

    • very_well_lost@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3 months

      Most of them would probably just turn into Joe Rogan. Not all psychonauts become wise.

    • 🔰Hurling⚜️Durling🔱@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3 months

      After reading the amount of drugs Musk was on and how he wanted to drive the US Government, I’m not entirely convinced that may be a good idea.

    • xxce2AAb@feddit.dkEnglish
      3 months

      Either it would have inspired some much needed self-awareness, empathy and consciousness of guilt, or… It would have driven him to fervently implement his 12 hour long Boschian hell-vision.

      • we are all@crazypeople.onlineEnglish
        3 months

        the man tried biting off medicine bottle caps because he couldn’t figure out the child proof caps.

        but yeah empathy. self awareness. that’s what I think of when I think Nixon. lol

        • xxce2AAb@feddit.dkEnglish
          3 months

          that’s what I think of when I think Nixon.

          Well, no. But that was rather my point: As helpful as I think infrequent responsible use of hallucinogens can be for those already given to self-reflection, when a person who’ve spent their entire life dodging their moral obligations and rationalizing away their doubts is suddenly confronted with exactly who and what they are and left with no way out, the results are not often beneficial.

      • Tar_Alcaran@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        3 months

        Especially on 5 times a normal dose. ESPECIALLY especially for a guy with a nuclear launch button in reach.

      • MehBlah@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3 months

        Can confirm. Someone put several hits in my beer when I was twenty. I did not enjoy it. I did in fact start violently questioning everyone who was there about it for the next few months. To the point everyone who was there was tired of my asking about it. Due to my persistence I finally found out who did it I showed them how much I appreciated it several times. The idiot told his dad about it and he came to straighten me out. I weighed 200 pounds with no fat. I worked slinging scrap iron all day. It did not go dads way. He called the cops and stupidly admitted why he came to my house. Cops cited him and soon his asshole son was not in town anymore.

        To this day I wont drink from a container that has left my sight. One of the first things I taught my daughter when she was old enough was how not to get roofied. She in turn passed on that knowledge when she went to college and became a RA. It prevented a young lady from getting assaulted when some of those young women noticed one of their peers who did not get the message acting way out of character.

        • RebekahWSD@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3 months

          All drinks that leave sight are dead. Rip drinks. A lesson I was also taught by did not have to learn the hard way yet. Because they’re dead the second they leave my sight.

      • Skankhunt420@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        3 months

        I wish more people understood this. I hate people that don’t respect the right of other people to choose with their own free will.

      • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.caEnglish
        3 months

        and can trigger psychosis.

        Hippy assholes used to try and dose police horses.

    • Jessica@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      3 months

      Ali G got all of the British politicians in a room, spiked the tea with Mary Jane, and got them all talking. They ended up solving world hunger, poverty, or something else.

    • brown567@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      3 months

      Another comment claims that’s 4-12 times a normal dose, so I can’t imagine it’d go over very well

    • lightnsfw@reddthat.comEnglish
      3 months

      If we’re putting them all in the same place I’d rather see what happens if we give them bath salts.

    • Wilco@lemmy.zipEnglish
      3 months

      Just tell him you want to discuss a possible crime.

    • edgemaster72@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3 months

      “Mr. President, I have an exciting investment opportunity with your name gold-plated all over it”

      • theneverfox@pawb.socialEnglish
        3 months

        Does Trump really have access to nukes? I don’t think there’s any way an order like that would be followed, all the most evil people on his staff are cowards who moved into military bases to feel safe

        • Random Dent@lemmy.mlEnglish
          3 months

          TBH the last few years have taught me not to underestimate the amount of idiocy or sycophancy the current government is capable of, so Trump tripping balls on LSD and being allowed to nuke Greenland isn’t entirely off my bingo card.

          • theneverfox@pawb.socialEnglish
            3 months

            That’s why I pay attention to them… Because they’re scarier from a distance

            They’re strong to the weak and weak to the strong. No one in the administration is willing to put their balls on the table and risk direct consequences

            Even with the whole extra judicial killings of random fishermen… As soon as it got real and people started talking about war crimes seriously, Keggseth and TACO Belle were tripping over each other to blame a scapegoat

    • IndridCold@lemmy.caEnglish
      3 months

      You’d dose him, he’d keep rambling nonsense, no one would notice.

    • explodicle@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      3 months

      I bet a bunch of people have already succeeded at this and didn’t coordinate with each other at all.

      • Zetta@mander.xyzEnglish
        3 months

        I did 500ug once and had a very unpleasant experience, although some skilled psychonauts take 1 or even 2 milligram (2000ug) and enjoy the experience.

      • khepri@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3 months

        yeah 100 is plenty for most people in most situations. 600 to a newbie would be like if your first drink was a whole bottle of Jack lol.

  • khepri@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3 months

    Unfortunately we now know very well that simply doing a lot psychedelics is not going to turn you from a shit person into a normal person.

  • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.caEnglish
    3 months

    She was trying to change his mind.
    Read a great book by Micheal Pollan, *How to change your mind. *

    The problem is psychedelic effects need proper setting and context for users to get a positive experience. Just poisoning people will not work as intended. But put Nixon in context, he inherited Vietnam from Kennedy, he started the war on Cancer, he even started a plan for universal healthcare that was rebranded Obamacare. While he is quite villanized, there have been worse Presidents since him.