Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive August 24, 2026
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. Just imagine that they said we're not going to arrest you and in addition for free we could put you through one of these psychedelic facilities that will give you different drugs and make you not care about taking hard drugs later. So compare these two things. Hey I'm going to take you to rehab. Let's put yourself in the mind of an addict for a moment. And I come to you say hey addict I got a d…

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ooms? Okay so you're already comfortable with that. I'll tell you what we'll do. We'll take you from the drugs you're on which are awesome but we're going to put you on some other awesome drugs. Pretty awesome. These might be so awesome that you won't even need those other ones anymore. Yeah I've heard about this thing called ibogaine but I don't know what that is. I don't know anything about that but I've heard it a few times now. Which one do you take? You're an addict. Does the addict take hell on Earth or I guess some other good drugs you're going to like them a lot? Seriously. Have I made my point?

We know that the drug intervention using psychedelics is very strong in terms of cure rates and fixing people. And this sounds like fun frankly. If I'm an addict and you tell me I can do these other drugs and it might make me not even care about the ones I was doing, I'm all about that. I'd be all over that. Wouldn't you? Remember you're already a drug addict. If you're already a drug addict you're not saying no to ketamine or mushrooms or ayahuasca or whatever they're going to use.

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DMT, I don't know. So all I want to make, I'm just going to make one point. If you're still living in the world of two buckets, you know this is the Greg Gutfeld point, the prison of two ideas. If you're in the prison of two ideas then legalizing looks like the worst thing anybody ever thought of because it never works. But the very moment you say well what would work and why don't we add that to…

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