Why Did Kids Stop Doing Drugs? in anticlimatic

I am currently listening to 3 women on NPR talking about how the ‘male loneliness epidemic’ is ‘overblown,’ why men’s problems are men’s fault, and how they can solve them by becoming more like women. Which has me begging the following question of the world:

Is there anyone left that knows anything?

Anyone at all, with any kind of finger on the pulse of reality?

Is this because kids stopped doing drugs? Was a side effect of constantly stepping outside of reality the ability to know the difference, and define it? I understand that drugs are potentially addictive poison that can kill us, but in small doses, can they make us stronger- mentally?

Probably it depends on the substance. Lets sort some of them out right off the bat.

Probably we can forego Crack, Cocaine, and Heroin as having any objective merit based on the enhanced addictive properties and costs alone. Nature’s Miracle (weed) is finally understood for what it is, culturally I think. Various other pharmaceuticals have their place when correctly prescribed. My nurse mother always called Morphine “a miracle drug,” just for the sheer volume of comfort it can provide people dying with extreme pain.

I think it’s the psychotropics that have the benefit. The mushrooms, the LSD, the peyote, the Absinth. Which makes sense- they alter one’s reality the most.

I think one of the above should be mandatory, at some point around the age of 19. The first leg of the Trip should include a group of one’s peers, and the second leg should include solitude and nature- the transition to begin when the individual is ready.

My sister has high levels of anxiety and frequent depression, and for a year I’ve offered to split the little bag of magic mushrooms I’ve had sitting in the back of my fridge, but she’s a millennial’s millennial and can’t break any of society’s rules, or forego Control like that.

Which, unfortunately, is 1000% the point.