Message from @Dr. Λᵐᵉʳᶤᶜᵃ
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its a human issue anyone can develop in the right circumstance
Unfortunately, many pharmaceutical drugs that are pretty much needed to cure some diseases are prone to causing psychological dependence
Ive been prescribed opioids before and taken them for extended periods for work related injuries and after losing the drug I felt miserable, I had the right brain to push through and not turn to the black market to support them and went through withdrawal
But you wont see me arguing to make those drugs illegal, some of my own research dealt with those drugs, some of my own clinicals saw people benefit from them
The point I am trying to make is that we have not done the right research even into compounds like CBD or THC
Let alone research into other psychedelics or other compounds
Porn like drugs can be addicting and have psychological defectives so its not a question of it being legal or illegal but stats have shown that there are different results like porn ruining marriages to men losing their restraint and moving more over to child porn to even causing incest or sexual abuses in public
Flat out banning something is a dangerous slippery slope
I still believe outright banning is better than outright allowing as a preemptive measure
Maybe we are just in the phase of transition
Preemptive maybe, I might agree to that, so long as we remain intellectually honest and allow proper research and laws to be put in place
and the means to defend users vs suppliers
Ive seen addiction in people firsthand and locking them away with no treatment is not right, its not, seeing lives ruined because someone couldnt be weened off a drug is horrible
But with the data available from places like Netherlands and Uruguay, I don't really think we are in an inevitable transition from prohibiting to allowing, at least in general
We should be focused on destroying the illegal market at the same time as we treat the victims
I agree to that too
I think we're getting closer to where I want to see things
A means to take a compound, research it, find alterations, alternatives, build systems of support, and make it work
but I also dont like seeing people go to jail because they get caught with a plant
I just think that in the end, we won't inevitably move towards legalization, many countries did that or similar, it didn't work
looking over to Netherlands as a justification to outlaw drugs is a mediocre take just as much as saying Universal Healthcare is good because Sweden has it
thats not the point of either of those results
I'm not only talking about Netherlands, just used as a popular example
I am biased, I am a STEM major and someone who has used
No one talks about Portugal when they talk about abortion for example
heh true
im just talking about that if youre looking over to another country as an example is a bad take because that would just regurgitate the same taking point of someone saying "well communism hasnt been tried here"
I just think that even after even more research we will still be in a place where most drugs will remain mostly outlawed
I can't see a country or a world where LSD or ecstasy is legally sold, for example
Weed? Not quite, but hard to tell, considering we are talking about 20 something years in the future
But taking from fresh evidence, I don't think it will
nah I dont rely on countries much, I look at what our country is founded on vs what I know to work in reality and what I know to test reality is the scientific method I want data before actions are taken
> I can't see a country or a world where LSD or ecstasy is legally sold, for example
@Islamic Straight
ever heard of Colombia? Afghanistan?
Those are not good example countries lol
Oh because they're just counties to look up to lol
my point exactly
Fuckers there dose with cheaper compounds like N-BOMes
I meant a functional society where those drugs are legally sold
I think we could have one
at least where accessible to consenting adults
Israel has universal healthcare...would it work here?
of course not
Depends on how they structure it, making a claim of working vs not working is absurd