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How do you know other substances won't "wake people up?"

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he probably refers to those substances that tear up or loosen completely the nervous system.

anywayz, i think it was a GOOD SURPRISE to me to see today that OD is out of Shroomery. I have posted many times, that Shroomery comes from 'Shrooms' and not from 'Drugs'. I dont do drugs, i do entheogens. There is no reason to jeopardize the whole community, doing things that are - at least - too risky.

INTERNET IS FREE. i suppose those who love taking medicines from drugstores and combine them with liquor or whatever are free to do so. no problem to me. but there is no reason to discuss it in here. thank god, we are full of forums.

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I have to agree with baraka. It's a secondary forum - please fucking remove any forum not directly pertaining to mushrooms.
Also, track down the guy who was talked through a potentially dreadful datura encounter.
The existence of the OD forum simply allowed a venue to discuss, much as a coffeeshop would, and no one whines about motherfucking coffeeshops being about "only coffee". The ignorance in this thread is as bad as any stupid e-tard rambling about how his magic beans made him roll so fkn hard, d00d.

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If people are going to experiment with some of the drugs discussed in the OD forum after receiving respective advice, then a very weighty responsibility falls on the mod's to make sure guidance isn't given out of ignorance, if not sheer idiocy. Not only is the legality problematic, but the ethical issues are classically huge: there should be sites battling the misinformation inherent in the discussion of these drugs, any discussion is promotional, often there is no yes/no, wrong/right answer, etc. Is the shroomery able to channel the concerted effort required to run what is essentially a drug hotline? Does the shroomery attract, by its nature, people who are more likely to experiment and/or use/abuse other drugs?     

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nonsense. the shroomery is not responsible for vetting the accuracy of posts by non-shroomery representatives. you could as easily say that the mods must jump in now if i say 'putting your head in the oven to breathe gas gets you high'. this place has a disclaimer, and we are each responsible for our own actions. removing the OD forum clears bandwidth, and there still remain the 'general questions' and 'entheogenic garden' departments.

i believe this has been an excellent post with some very well made points on both sides.... but this is now a moot academic argument, as the forum is gone. hopefully the chatroom will start back up, and this site will concentrate, as its name suggests, on fungi.

organic = good
synthetic = bad
 

My first feeling was let the OD exist, b/c it can provide valuable info about other drugs.
The fact is that i read and post in that forum for quite some time now and i never used any form of opiate or benzodiazepine. It all rests on the viewer and not on the forum itself.
That forum doesn't cause people to engage in stupid drug behaviour. At least people who are reasonable enough to not blindly believe everything is said on the internet, especially on forums where no one has control on whatever info is given.

Now i'm more reluctant b/c i like this place very much and don't want it to suffer legal consequences for whatever information is spread on that forum.
Besides that, my interest on this site are psychedelics in general (not only shroom growing) and it is true that that forum had a bit too much talk about strong dangerous and addictive drugs for my liking.



I have not made my mind yet, nor i think i will think about it too much anymore. I'm glad it's not me who has to take the decision...

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organic = good
synthetic = bad

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