My dad went into the Air Force with a really bad stutter, the dr there told him that cigarettes were the way to stop the stutter...he was right my dad rarely stutters but then he had a smoking problem. Changed one for the other. He doesn’t smoke now, after a battle he chooses not to smoke anymore.
yes, that is the hope and i would like to keep that option open for those who want to use it. they should have the opportunity. if theres not much of a demand [for getting their GED, etc.] like you say, then its not much of a burden on the taxpayer anyway so everyone is happy.
people react differently to trauma, but you should know that no one is thinking about anything except dulling the emotional pain. i am not saying its the correct course of action nor am i excusing it. they are simply not thinking rationally.
Naturally. But hey... the stigma is free.
Nicotine is one of the most addictive substances known to man, and cigarettes are deadly. Mushrooms are neither addictive nor deadly, so this is a terrible comparison.
I've heard that nonsense from people with food issues before... well, you have to eat or you'll die. The Truth is you can go MUCH longer without eating than drinking, before you die.
Just a sidebar-- the potency goes away pretty quickly though, doesn't it? Or maybe I'm confusing that with the 'side effects.'
Um I’m not sure? The effects usually last between 2-6 hours depending on dosage, species of mushroom and individual bio-chemistry.
Actually, basic food and shelter is a handout...people know they have to work to eat and have a place to stay. I don’t mind the handout if the person getting the handout is going to use it to help them to become a working person. But, I don’t like it when people use it to live on indefinitely or uses the kindness to be homeless and live off the streets and make the streets their living room and toilet...
O sure...I want people to get back on their feet too, and choose to not be addicted. But, if they are going to get handouts that only continue their addiction..then I don’t think it works then.
Lol! But you do have to eat...can’t quit that cold turkey or move onto something else...can you go your whole life without eating? That’s ridiculous! I would say your logic isn’t very logical.
like i said, we are extending a help line to those who wish to take it. consider the homeless innocent until proven guilty.
As a fellow food addict (sugar and flour) I can empathize with you, yet the principle of addiction is the same whether it's drink, food, sex, drugs, gambling, video games, etc. And I would say it's not just overeating but what one is choosing to eat. No one (hardly) ever overeats steamed broccoli. It's the flour and sugar usually. It's the highly processed, nutritionally deficient food products which are full of flour, sugar, partially hydrogenated oils, etc.
Actually they might be, the early stages of research are incredibly promising. You know what they do as a last resort for depression? Electro convulsive therapy. This chemical and others like it offer the best hope for treatment of depression and other disorders without the side effects of the current medications.
The point being that you can’t quit food like you can alcohol or drugs. Whether or not you are eating the wrong foods or not you still have to eat. You don’t have to do drugs or drink alcohol...so I don’t see it as the same at all.
Actually...yes Jesus is the answer to every problem. He is the one that says come to me all who are weary and heavy laden and I will give you rest. And He means it. I know this is true because I have come to Him and He has changed me from the person I used to be to someone who now has hope and a future.
But what about the ones who don’t get back in their feet what then? Is it really ok to let them continue on in their homelessness and say well we tried? And what was the trying a meal? Does a meal end homelessness-no. Give them a free place to stay..and they trash that too and probably get kicked out because they are doing their drugs or getting drunk. So does that help them-no.
But it is about what they do, they aren’t excused because they are homeless. No one is excused because of their circumstances.