Quote:Isn't the brain is the most sophisticated compound pharmacy on the planet? Guess we'd have to remove it to be on the same page as these guys...
Cheers, a1pha.
I need to go light my MARBLE PIPE to comprehend how truly disturbing this is.
But you know, let's say for a minute that (my favorite theory about the world) humans are all, to some degree, brain-damaged because our diet does not provide optimal fuel, as far as the specifications of our brain is concerned (to what degree, we can all argue endlessly, but let's assume for one minute there is just a grain of truth in this. I'm not here to derail a thread with arguments or prove anything beyond a shadow of a doubt, I'm just offering some food for thought (ha

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This means two things: the human tendency toward drug abuse is likely a result of countless generations of less-than-optimal brain nutrition... meaning, we have been starved, by no fault of our own, for generations and generations. What if our brain evolved in a trippy forest of Eden that disappeared with a cyclical climate shift? There exists a very real compulsion to self-medicate. Maybe those tubers out in the savannah just didn't cut it, when your ancestors used to chow down on uber-figs the size of melons and a whole spectrum of flowers (sometimes full of insects!). And now we have, what, food dyes and vending machines?

Lots of pigmented fruit has weak MAOI activity... How many people are depressed these days?
And also, the human tendency toward control, domination, and fear, is likely a result of countless generations of less-than-optimal brain nutrition...
When I look at it this way, it seems imperative that I need to A) work on myself as much as possible and B) sincerely take into consideration the environment in which I raise my children, because the problem that seeks control, e.g., creates prohibition (mental illness, structural brain damage)... is HEALED with drugs!
There are those who would ban your herbs along with a lot of organic foods, etc., in a heartbeat, had they enough despotic power. Foods are drugs. Those idiots drawing up Codex Alimentarius are no different than those idiots in Australia who want to make Acacia trees illegal, and I daresay they are very similarly flawed.
I have a friend who said that if you really want to see how much something threatens a power structure, simply look at the legislation.
It's like this inner self-feeding demon, an ego that has gone out of control, inventing paranoid fears and lies, denial and delusion, using every trick up its sleeve to prevent anything that might dissolve its self-generating terror into bliss, because it is damaged to the point where it
can't even recognize what's good for it anymore...
Just something to consider... I mean, if you look inside your mind, if you really look hard enough, do you find anything remotely similar inside? I drink Ayahuasca religiously because I feel like it puts a muzzle/sends to puppy school that part of me.
I think this condition is much more pronounced in politicians, generally, and, well, places of power... The more you seek to control, the more out of control you have to be on the inside, grasping at straws... when really, we are all connected, and everything is actually okay.

So, you know, maybe the frantic need to use drugs, along with the frantic need to ban them, are really just two giant indicators that we are all slightly out of balance, to some degree, and should work at addressing that balance. I don't mean some kind of halfway-compromise between both extremes: I mean it's time to look at everything in the world and determine what constants need to be in place to ensure human mental health in all spheres of life... Isn't that what spice teaches? Isn't that ultimately what we all really need?
Sanity includes lots of things like real food, grass, and trees... What does sanity look like to you?
Some things will come easy, some will be a test