MissC
27-11-2013, 03:40 AM
An amusing corollary occurred to me.
Compare NBE with cannabis, and synthetic drugs with... illegal synthetic drugs, I guess. Nearly all the pot smokers I know have absolutely no desire whatsoever to even try harder drugs like heroin, crack, or meth.
There may be a variety of factors at play here. Primarily, pot is readily available and legal in my state. The growers have had time to become professionals who produce an amazing product. Perhaps more importantly, most people are aware that there is a considerable difference in risk between consuming cannabis (proven mostly harmless and non-addictive), and consuming other drugs of unknown providence, potency, and risk. Variations in the strength of heroin are particularly dangerous.
The second point, while having empirical basis, also lends itself to psychological differentiation. Cannabis: a pretty plant that anyone could grow = innocence. Meth: manufactured using various toxic chemicals and dangerous processes not easily understood by the prospective user + a stronger criminal element in its distribution = probably best avoid this.
That isn't to say that synthetic pharmaceutical grade estrogens and anti-androgens are unknown factors -- they are heavily regulated for dosage and labeled properly. But we humans still tend to trust herbal products more than we trust something made in a lab from what we don't know. At the least, we know that a plant which doesn't kill us probably won't hurt us, or if it does, it will stop once we stop consuming it.
To bring this back round to the topic -- for me, PM seems to be doing what I want it to do. If it doesn't, oh well. I'm not going to mess with synthetics for something I can live without, namely, bigger boobs.