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Bill Atkinson's psychedelic user interface

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425 points cainxinth | 1 comments | 11 Jul 25 11:03 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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demiters ◴[11 Jul 25 12:11 UTC] No.44531227[source]▶
Not a big fan of the ongoing productisation of transcendental, possibly brain-scrambling experiences. Keeping them somewhat less accessible tends to filter out people who don't do their homework to understand the substance and who consider it just another novel experience to try on a whim, which increases the risk of negative outcomes.
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Someone ◴[11 Jul 25 13:39 UTC] No.44532020[source]▶
It also makes doing your homework a lot harder. If I want to buy alcohol, I can go to a shop and can get something that’s correctly labeled with an alcohol percentage and is highly unlikely to contain methanol.

If I go buy some psychedelic, chances are it is diluted or laced, so I would have to know how to test that what they sell me is what I asked for.

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1. allears ◴[11 Jul 25 16:12 UTC] No.44533887[source]▶
There are jurisdictions where it's legal, and shops that will ship it virtually anywhere. The product is pure, tested, and consistent.

Of course you have to find such a shop (hint: try Canada), and it's still a lot of hassle for something that should be perfectly legal, and is, in many places.