Unpopular Opinion
Welcome to the Unpopular Opinion community!
How voting works:
Vote the opposite of the norm.
If you agree that the opinion is unpopular give it an arrow up. If it's something that's widely accepted, give it an arrow down.
Guidelines:
Tag your post, if possible (not required)
- If your post is a "General" unpopular opinion, start the subject with [GENERAL].
- If it is a Lemmy-specific unpopular opinion, start it with [LEMMY].
Rules:
1. NO POLITICS
Politics is everywhere. Let's make this about [general] and [lemmy] - specific topics, and keep politics out of it.
2. Be civil.
Disagreements happen, but that doesn’t provide the right to personally attack others. No racism/sexism/bigotry. Please also refrain from gatekeeping others' opinions.
3. No bots, spam or self-promotion.
Only approved bots, which follow the guidelines for bots set by the instance, are allowed.
4. Shitposts and memes are allowed but...
Only until they prove to be a problem. They can and will be removed at moderator discretion.
5. No trolling.
This shouldn't need an explanation. If your post or comment is made just to get a rise with no real value, it will be removed. You do this too often, you will get a vacation to touch grass, away from this community for 1 or more days. Repeat offenses will result in a perma-ban.
6. Defend your opinion
This is a bit of a mix of rules 4 and 5 to help foster higher quality posts. You are expected to defend your unpopular opinion in the post body. We don't expect a whole manifesto (please, no manifestos), but you should at least provide some details as to why you hold the position you do.
Instance-wide rules always apply. https://legal.lemmy.world/tos/
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I suppose you should really be clear on what you mean by drug. Tylenol is the one I first thought of when I read the title. It causes liver failure if you take more than the prescribed dose, and would never be approved for sale if it was proposed under current regulations.
Cannabis and mushrooms are a bit stickier. Yes, smoking cannabis can cause significant mental health problems, but not fer everyone, and not all the time (except smoking it can cause lung cancer). Mushrooms are even trickier, as we currently don't even know what the mechanisms are for it's effects and what's more, there was a study being done on ecstasy and psilocybin, but it was run by pseudo-scientific quacks that were all religious about it. So (IIRC) ten years of research turned out to be pretty much useless; however, there are some things we can try to suss out from that steaming shit-pile: drugs like mushrooms and ecstasy effect different people differently. All human brains are wired differently, and it seems that this fact make itself known when studying certain drugs.
Long story short: you can't generalize a lot of things because the effects vary so much from person to person. Some things you can: like tylenol will destroy your liver and kill you if you take too much, but cannabis might cause you to become overly paranoid and may lead to schizophrenia but, not for everyone. We can't really say anything about mushrooms and ecstasy right now because that knowledge has been inadvertently locked away by religious freaks.