Quote Originally Posted by skarz
I agree KingPhilie, i'm not trying to get him to do drugs or anything though, he just constantly talks about how it's going to ruin my life because he's so brainwashed by the everyday drug stories you hear. I'm trying to make him realize that's bullshit, yea some ppl do get messed up, but you have to know what you're doing.
Well then I would suggest finding some actual statistics on psychedelics, since those DO prove your point that the people whose lives get ruined from them are only a small minority. The amount of people who have breakdowns from LSD, for example, is much smaller than anti-drug propaganda would have you think, and is mainly the people who have prior symptoms of mental illness--the people who should NOT be taking it anyway. Point out that most bad trips are merely a result of irresponsible drug use, bad set and setting... and that the MAJORITY of psychedelics users (who you don't hear about because they know what they're doing and don't get hurt) are more likely to have positive life changing experiences.

And Dion, yeah of course a lot of what I said comes straight out of Buddhism so you're not mislabeling me. I don't "identify" with it but the practice has had the greatest influence on my life in the past few years.

Which reminds me, if your friend is sick of hearing about drugs then maybe it's better to just have meaningful conversations about life, which is more important anyway. Talk about your views and your appreciation of life which you can later mention have had to do with your positive experiences with psychedelics.

Check out erowid.org if you wanna look for statistics. Or just go on the basis of personal experience, most burnouts I'VE ever met are like that because of other drugs, definitely not psychedelics.
Trichocereus Panza Reviewed by Trichocereus Panza on . Explaining Drugs to a Non-user Ok I need a little help. Me and a friend are always argueing about drugs, mainly hallucinogens. I talk about how much knowledge/wisdom/sprituality you can gain from them, but he doesn't really understand cause he's never used them. I'm trying to figure out how to explain how they can actually benefit you in these ways but i can't come up with the words. His argueing point is "Hey if you're hallucinating, how do you know you're actually gaining knowledge, isn't your mind just making it all up Rating: 5