<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>arcticbull</author><text>Sure, for weed maybe.&lt;p&gt;But psychedelics are very different. They&amp;#x27;re really, genuinely not addictive -- probably because they&amp;#x27;re not &amp;quot;fun.&amp;quot; In fact, they&amp;#x27;re exhausting. You may feel a lot better after, the experience may be fascinating, but you&amp;#x27;re in absolutely no hurry to do it again. The whole thing lasts a few hours, but literally feels like months, with numerous epochs along the way.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s not like the kind of hollow calories of a bag of Cheetos, it&amp;#x27;s more like a long, difficult workout. That&amp;#x27;s hard to productize in that way.</text><parent_chain><item><author>simion314</author><text>I have zero experience with drugs,  so I am wondering if there is a sugar&amp;#x2F;cigarette industry that put a lot of money into promoting it&amp;#x27;s products, then what will be different when drugs get legalized?&lt;p&gt;Won&amp;#x27;t we repeat the history where companies make billions from this products, put them into ads to spread the use and addict people, suppress research into bad side effects etc,.&lt;p&gt;Personally I think there are some good applications for mushrooms or marijuana but my instinct is that the greedy people would  do what they do best, sucker people and make big money.</text></item><item><author>simonswords82</author><text>I have a friend who has experienced magic mushrooms recreationally about half a dozen times in her 20s. After each trip she reported feeling clear headed and more mindful - she described it as though her mind&amp;#x27;s harddrive had been defragmented.&lt;p&gt;Fast forward 10 years and that same friend felt low during lockdown over the past 12 months. After reading up online she decided to try microdosing mushrooms rather than the mainstream route her doctor would prescribe - anti depressants.&lt;p&gt;She has been taking a tiny dose every other day and feels immeasurably better. More optimistic about the future. More energy. More focus. Less sad.&lt;p&gt;To say it&amp;#x27;s frustrating to read these official press releases about the positive impact of mushrooms nearly 20 years after she discovered them for the first time is the understatement of a lifetime.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m convinced we&amp;#x27;ll look back at this era as a form of prohibition on drugs that governments threw down as a wide blanket and ultimately society was worse off for.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Psilocybin &apos;promising&apos; for depression</title><url>https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-56745139</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>anonporridge</author><text>The nature of psychedelics makes it difficult to overuse them.&lt;p&gt;Your body will actually build a tolerance to them and they&amp;#x27;ll stop working if you use too regularly.&lt;p&gt;You also don&amp;#x27;t establish a physiological addiction like you do with drugs like nicotine and sugar.&lt;p&gt;Finally, the dosage required is absurdly small and would be extremely cheap to mass produce. You can grow mushrooms relatively easy in your damn closet. It&amp;#x27;s not like it&amp;#x27;s a patented designer drug.&lt;p&gt;Will people created patented designer psychedelics? Certainly. But it seems to me like it would be a similar kind of problem to people buying Fiji water when nearly the same stuff is flowing out the tap for damn near free.</text><parent_chain><item><author>simion314</author><text>I have zero experience with drugs,  so I am wondering if there is a sugar&amp;#x2F;cigarette industry that put a lot of money into promoting it&amp;#x27;s products, then what will be different when drugs get legalized?&lt;p&gt;Won&amp;#x27;t we repeat the history where companies make billions from this products, put them into ads to spread the use and addict people, suppress research into bad side effects etc,.&lt;p&gt;Personally I think there are some good applications for mushrooms or marijuana but my instinct is that the greedy people would  do what they do best, sucker people and make big money.</text></item><item><author>simonswords82</author><text>I have a friend who has experienced magic mushrooms recreationally about half a dozen times in her 20s. After each trip she reported feeling clear headed and more mindful - she described it as though her mind&amp;#x27;s harddrive had been defragmented.&lt;p&gt;Fast forward 10 years and that same friend felt low during lockdown over the past 12 months. After reading up online she decided to try microdosing mushrooms rather than the mainstream route her doctor would prescribe - anti depressants.&lt;p&gt;She has been taking a tiny dose every other day and feels immeasurably better. More optimistic about the future. More energy. More focus. Less sad.&lt;p&gt;To say it&amp;#x27;s frustrating to read these official press releases about the positive impact of mushrooms nearly 20 years after she discovered them for the first time is the understatement of a lifetime.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m convinced we&amp;#x27;ll look back at this era as a form of prohibition on drugs that governments threw down as a wide blanket and ultimately society was worse off for.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Psilocybin &apos;promising&apos; for depression</title><url>https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-56745139</url></story>