Full disclosure I’m on a journey back from Meth addiction. I’ve just always found it interesting how people will smoke Marijuana or eat Mushrooms but will refuse to do a line of coke or a tab of Acid. The logic is always that some substances occur naturally and are therefore fine for human consumption.
But wouldn’t human-made compounds and chemicals also eventually occur in nature given enough time and the right environment? Or are these chemicals 100% unnatural?
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LSD can be found in Ergot, meth was created by humans and cannot be found in that form in nature, but there are natural amphetamines like nicotine.
The argument that naturally occurring substances are good and man-made are bad is completely illogical.
The most destructive things we can find are completely natural. Humanity hasn’t even come close to replicating the killing power of nature. Similarly, a lot of most nurturing substances are natural too. You can’t eat snake poison, but you can eat yogurt just fine.
Technically any organic chemical, which drugs are, could somehow be produced by a plant. Most just wouldn’t because they have too little benefit for the evolutionary cost in the steps to be taken. Why kill mosquitos with meth, when nicotine does that just fine and is easy to produce.
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