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Thats a really strong argument, except for the fact that DMT is released into your brain nightly with no detriment at all. Read: Your dreams are your mind, as you so eloquently put it TRIPPUNBAWLZWHOA! So, to swing your fathead back onto the topic again, why is this drug illegal? A 2 year degree doesn't make you a medical expert brah, it apparently also impairs you from following the simple argument that *gasp* the government doesn't have your best interests at heart.

I'm sure I'll end up with another slightly-applicable rant in response, but heres to hoping!

I'm not seeing anything on Google scholar linking DMT to dreams, but I'd be glad to read about it if you have some credible sources discussing this. All Wikipedia states is that DMTs link to dreaming is speculative. " A biochemical mechanism for this was proposed by the medical researcher J. C. Callaway, who suggested in 1988 that DMT might be connected with visual dream phenomena: brain DMT levels would be periodically elevated to induce visual dreaming and possibly other natural states of mind."

Could you explain how my "rant" on insulin isn't applicable? Insulin, DMT and hydrochloric acid are all synthesized and used by the human body. Would you add additional amounts of insulin or hydrochloric acid to your body? Would you expect there to be no consequences to doing so?

I don't have a 2 year degree. I have a 4 year degree in biology and a 4 year degree in nursing. It doesn't make me an expert, but it means I have a better understanding of the human body than you can get from reading articles on the internet.

I also don't think that the government has my best interests at heart, either. The government has the interests of its economy at heart - and large companies do more for the economy than any single citizen ever could.

You seem to be misunderstanding the basis of my entire stance - I have no moral objection to drugs. You can smoke, snort or shoot anything you'd like into that body of yours. I just think it's ignorant to claim that ingesting these substances has no negative effects on your body.

Well, lets state some facts. DMT is illegal. DMT is also produced by most living things. You dose yourself with DMT every night. Is there a reason its illegal besides "Durrr its against the law"? Be sure to stay in your little box. Its dangerous outside.

You really can't understand the difference between chemicals naturally occurring within our bodies during cell metabolism and then being passed from the body as waste and taking the same chemical from plants in far larger quantities and adding it to your body for no describable purpose(other than to TRIP BAWLS)?

You know what else your body makes, brah? Insulin. So, following your line of reasoning, you should be able to go out and get yourself some insulin and inject yourself with it. Be sure to let me know how that turns out - I'm sure it'll be cool, after all, you're dosing yourself with the insulin your pancreas makes almost constantly.
(And yes. plants can produce insulin)

I've smoked large quantities of pot, I've used my share of psychedelics. I'm just not stupid enough to pretend that doing such things - especially long term - isn't detrimental to my body. Homeostasis - look into it.

Wow! That totally changes your previous statement.

Nice flip-flop brah. This isn't an argument about drugs, and I won't turn it into one. But you're a strong argument for the main topic.

Yes, I'm a perfect argument for the main topic, while being a liberal Canadian. Facts don't matter, brah, just your personal opinions based solely on the fact that someone else doesn't like drugs as much as you do.

Yeah, I'm super small minded, what with my atheism, pro-choice, pro-gay marriage, pro marijuana legalization, pro-euthanasia stances. They don't come much more buttoned up than me.

I've worked as a nurse for several years in both the ER and critical care. I've seen all kinds of people hospitalized from various drug-related issues. People do cut their shitty drugs with terrible things, like comet, and most frequently they sell such things to kids too stupid to know the difference. Guess what coke + comet can cause? Brain damage.
Hell, I've seen people hospitalized with severe respiratory failure because of the chemicals their pot was coated in.

Drugs are not innocuous. Certainly the "war on drugs" is over-hyped and half-fabricated, but that doesn't mean that most illegal substances aren't illegal for a reason.