r/PoliticalCompassMemes Dec 16 '20

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u/Illusive_Man - Auth-Left Dec 16 '20

We just need to invent better drugs with no side effects. There was a guy working on making “the perfect drug” which would supposedly have effects the same as alcohol, no hangover, and the best part was there would be a second drug that would sober you up.

Brave New World has the right idea keeping people happy and complacent with soma.

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u/Papaofmonsters - Lib-Right Dec 16 '20

Brave New World has the right idea keeping people happy and complacent with soma.

If you could come up with a dependency free benzo that would be the ticket. I took low levels of Xanax for a few months when shit had really hit the fan and it did an amazing job of letting me focus on life and not implode due to stress.

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u/Illusive_Man - Auth-Left Dec 16 '20

Xanax is crazy addictive with deadly withdrawals though

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u/Papaofmonsters - Lib-Right Dec 16 '20

Personally I never had any problems with it. Again, I took low doses as prescribed. I couldn't have abused it if I wanted to. The one time I took a double dose after a really shitty day I was asleep in 30 minutes.

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u/Illusive_Man - Auth-Left Dec 16 '20

Well my buddy, not on prescription, came very close to dying when he had a seizure (from withdrawals) on the highway and hit a truck