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We need ecstasy and cocaine in place of Prozac and Xanax

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There are many different psychiatric issues.

MDMA may throw someone out of an acute depression, but for people with genetic predispositions towards depression, it will get back after a few weeks. And you can't microdose, nor take MDMA regularly.

As for cocaine - Ritalin is cocaine light really. Both increase dopamine, and reduce anxiety in low enough doses.

As for replacing Xanax, it affects GABA if I'm not mistaken, which is a completely different animal altogether. For people who have issues on that front (i.e. experience panic attacks often, due to brain chemistry, not because of traumatic memories), no amount of MDMA therapy, or stimulants, will help.

> As for cocaine - Ritalin is cocaine light really. Both increase dopamine, and reduce anxiety in low enough doses.

As the other poster said, Ritalin is a jittery, cheap experience compared to the glorious bliss of cocaine. Cocaine boosts confidence and makes it easy to talk and be social. High-quality cocaine has no "body load" and no come-down, for me. It's an incredible drug and the memories of it still stick in my mind many years onward.

Cocaine causes much less anxiety than adderall or ritalin. It is a way smoother drug if its pure cocaine , not cut with caffeine and other crap.

Cocaine used to be able to be purchased over the counter and everyone carried around snuff boxes. This country was built on cocaine. Unfortunately, with it being illegal, it is risky to obtain and the shitty caffeine youll get with it is inferior to amphetamines.

Would be nice to see cocaine as a prescription drug for ADD and narcolepsy. But thats a pipe dream...

Stick with pure drugs, ie. from prescriptions. Caffeine and that other speedy and anxiety inducing crap street coke is cut with is not worth dealing with

Provigil seems to be way better since it doesn't get you high in the traditional sense.

I don't think cocaine lasts long enough to be therapeutic. And certainly not healthy to snort it.

I also don't believe anyone (99% of people) should be taking any performance enhancing drug every day. Ritalin, Adderall and Vyvanse are all essentially meth without the initial rush.

And yes, no one should be doing cocaine since a huge percentage is cut with synthetic balt salts and even sometimes fentayl (not sure why).

Not a big fan of provigil but a lot of people seem to have success with it. Cocaine lasts a while if you consume it sublingually or orally.

I think we also need better mental models of how to deal with life and stress. And how to be energized from being healthy and sleeping properly.

>I think we also need better mental models of how to deal with life and stress.

No, we need totally different lifestyles that are more compatible with our biology. The way our society functions is incompatible with our biology, and we're trying to cover it up with drugs and other medical treatments.

We need government with real honest people.....

Ah yes, another shrooms and mdma cure all article.

do you have any experience with either?

both but prefer the "harder stuff" but I'm not trying to win any converts either.

Ah another naysayer who probably has tried neither cuz the gubernment told him to be a gud boy.

You know nothing about me.

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