Denver considering decriminalizing 'shrooms

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Why are Americans, unique among the world, so dependent on mood altering substances to function? I do not mean just alcohol (the only people who outdrink Americans are Brits), or even typical "hard" or "street" drugs, but drugs of all type. The US population equates cannabis to "freedom" and is the world's greatest per capita consumer of this product. The US permits codeine to be sold OTC where in most countries you need a prescription. The medications that we force feed to livestock is just obscene. This country needs a detox.

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Why are Americans, unique among the world, so dependent on mood altering substances to function? I do not mean just alcohol (the only people who outdrink Americans are Brits), or even typical "hard" or "street" drugs, but drugs of all type. The US population equates cannabis to "freedom" and is the world's greatest per capita consumer of this product. The US permits codeine to be sold OTC where in most countries you need a prescription. The medications that we force feed to livestock is just obscene. This country needs a detox.

you seem uptight.  Here, take this, quick!

Doesn't it strike you as strange that Mexico, Canada, South America, the Middle East, all export their home-grown intoxicants to the US, but don't consume them at our levels? Hint: this trade is not to our benefit.

Of course, psychotropic mushrooms grow natively in the US, but that doesn't give us right to poach them off like we're doing to our ginseng.

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Why are Americans, unique among the world, so dependent on mood altering substances to function? I do not mean just alcohol (the only people who outdrink Americans are Brits), or even typical "hard" or "street" drugs, but drugs of all type. The US population equates cannabis to "freedom" and is the world's greatest per capita consumer of this product. The US permits codeine to be sold OTC where in most countries you need a prescription. The medications that we force feed to livestock is just obscene. This country needs a detox.

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hmmm

Western Europe has a high per-capita illicit drug use compared to other geopolitical regions, but even there, its not at US levels. Our drug use in everything but tobacco is outrageous.

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1.Belarus
4.Russia
14.Poland
16.Finland
17.S.Korea
18.France
25.UK
40.Canada
48.US

The only actually oversight of mine is South Korea. Otherwise, on lists like this I never compare Americans to eastern Europeans and Russians on measures of social dysfunction. Seems superfluous to.

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1.Belarus
4.Russia
14.Poland
16.Finland
17.S.Korea
18.France
25.UK
40.Canada
48.US

The only actually oversight of mine is South Korea. Otherwise, on lists like this I never compare Americans to eastern Europeans and Russians on measures of social dysfunction. Seems superfluous to.

France and Canada?.......and ones I didn't list...Portugal, Germany, Ireland (obviously), Denmark, Spain, South Africa, New Zealand, Switzerland, Austria, Greece, Netherlands, Chile and Argentina are all higher drinkers than the US (plus many others still).

American's are NOT big drinkers when compared to the rest of the world.  I'm dubious of the "we're the most drugged place" too, but there just aren't any good numbers for that for obvious reasons. We certainly like our recreational drugs, but I don't think we're any different from a lot of places on that point.  I'd be happy to see proof otherwise though.

What do you mean? Wiki has compiled a good number of consumption rates of illicit substances. For cannabis consumption, the US is in the top ten, behind Israel and Iceland for developed countries. The US ranks fourth for cocaine consumption.  For heroin derivatives, the US ranks third. For cannabis and "hard" drugs the US is consistently one of the top most users.

I didn't think I had to spell out the fact that we consume so many drugs, opiates, that overdoses have truncated our life expectancy twice in a row. We have a drug problem.

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I didn't know Portugal, France, Australia, Germany, Denmark, Spain, Belgium, New Zealand, Switzerland, Austria, Canada, and the Netherlands were in Eastern Europe. Sounds more like most of Europe and the entire Anglosphere to me...

maybe his point was that we drink more than places that drink less than us?

Oh well, you got me on alcohol consumption. That makes my entire argument false. Or doesn't.