Fair enough, idk where the research is at now, but when I was in middle school our health class teachers basically told us it’s the same shit and possibly even worse for you, but there weren’t enough long-term studies to confirm
Then again they also told us LSD/shrooms are addictive, carcinogenic, kill brain cells, & cause brain disorders… which I now know all four of those are completely false for psychedelics but completely true for alcohol, meanwhile they were telling us the debunked “a glass of wine with dinner when you’re old enough can be good for your health” 💀
Anti drug campaigns that boiled down to just straight making shit up in a bid to scare kids off it are so ridiculous. It just made kids not take any of it seriously even when it was correct and the danger is actually real.
Shrooms specifically our teacher implied were similarly harmful as meth and even fentanyl. Meanwhile shroom research from the past decade has found them one of the safest & least addictive drugs we know of, capable of growing new neural pathways rather than killing them, and potentially being one of the most effective treatments for depression & addiction that we know of
The amount of urban myths and pseudoscience about psychedelics is wild for the fact they’re practically the only recreational drugs with evidence for long-term psychological benefit
Burger-Americans are so nutritionally deprived I could see the glass of wine thing being true purely on the fact that it’s the only fruit product they have consumed in a month, and otherwise they would get scurvy
I think there was a correlative study many years ago that found moderate drinkers averaged slightly better heart health than non-drinkers, and the media latched onto that shit, and its become a popular narrative to downplay all the long-term risks of drinking
Turns out most of the non-drinkers in the study were only non-drinkers because of pre-existing health issues…often from past drinking 😭
Fair enough, idk where the research is at now, but when I was in middle school our health class teachers basically told us it’s the same shit and possibly even worse for you, but there weren’t enough long-term studies to confirm
Then again they also told us LSD/shrooms are addictive, carcinogenic, kill brain cells, & cause brain disorders… which I now know all four of those are completely false for psychedelics but completely true for alcohol, meanwhile they were telling us the debunked “a glass of wine with dinner when you’re old enough can be good for your health” 💀
Anti drug campaigns that boiled down to just straight making shit up in a bid to scare kids off it are so ridiculous. It just made kids not take any of it seriously even when it was correct and the danger is actually real.
Shrooms specifically our teacher implied were similarly harmful as meth and even fentanyl. Meanwhile shroom research from the past decade has found them one of the safest & least addictive drugs we know of, capable of growing new neural pathways rather than killing them, and potentially being one of the most effective treatments for depression & addiction that we know of
The amount of urban myths and pseudoscience about psychedelics is wild for the fact they’re practically the only recreational drugs with evidence for long-term psychological benefit
Burger-Americans are so nutritionally deprived I could see the glass of wine thing being true purely on the fact that it’s the only fruit product they have consumed in a month, and otherwise they would get scurvy
I think there was a correlative study many years ago that found moderate drinkers averaged slightly better heart health than non-drinkers, and the media latched onto that shit, and its become a popular narrative to downplay all the long-term risks of drinking
Turns out most of the non-drinkers in the study were only non-drinkers because of pre-existing health issues…often from past drinking 😭