I talked about it with friends over dinner tonight. Their response:

In your hands, I can understand how it's a tool. You're aware of the pitfalls and how to screen for potential dangers. I don't think that kind of drastic change should sound particularly enjoyable, but I bet you're someone awesome to take tea with.

I just hope the people administering it are aware of the risk if the person taking it already uses meds like that.

That's messed up. The thing I kept reading (when I was Googling pre-initial comment to make sure it was the drug I was thinking of) is that it's very commonly administered with an MAOI.

I had a bad acid trip once, and although some say there's no such thing as a "bad" trip if it teaches you about yourself, I'd prefer to avoid the never-ending abyss of all-consuming existential dread if at all possible.

Totally, totally. I just wish people wouldn't talk about fairly serious drug use so casually.

Ayahuasca has all kinds of things that look very promising. But, it's also got some side effects that don't— like elevated blood pressure and heart rate to start.

But she ended on a positive note, which is good — she says that she did a cleanse by taking ayahuasca (???), which has helped her let go of the "wreckage of [her] past life."

For what it's worth, I think this is incredibly sweet. Thank you for my morning cry, haha.

This seems like a good place to admit I broke down and bought a Jelly-bean flavored something (it was lip gloss) and it was tutti-frutti flavored just like I'd feared (also with a menthol edge. I blame that on the lipgloss. There's menthol in the parent company name.) and I can't imagine imparting that flavor on poor…

That's not the chicken hawk that comes to my mind when I think about cartoon representation. Remember Gonzo before the muppet movie that rebranded him as an alien?

Watch yourself there, I will defend my 940 Turbo to the death.

Agreed. Symphony bars are in every grocery store here in metro NYC. Sometimes you have to find the actual candy aisle, since it's pretty common for the boxes in the checkout to be sold out.

That's good, because I'd just cry through the whole list and miss Vermonty Python.

Probably not the best line of the article to use as the first mention of the name.

That really bugs me too. Like, does she think the boys are to blame somehow, or that the girls don't need help? *shudders*

I'm sure it did happen, along with a bunch of people figuring out their super obvious point long before they got to it. That's probably the first stuff the editor(s) was(were) told not to use.

I haven't put my finger on why yet, but it's my favorite commercial in a long long time.

I see your Magic Body Control, and raise you the Galluscam:

The scene in episode one where one of the women goes to get the pill and the doctor is all "don't use it irresponsibly" made my blood boil.