The legality of the law doesn't change the outcome of your behavior

And in regards to marijuana, my state voted legalization so my holding pot and using doesnt change anything

Feds cant touch me on that

Just like buying legal drugs from illegal sources

As long as you're buying legal from legal sources, I'm cool with it

People have the right to do dumb, legal shit

if I had a nickel for every person ive known over the last 30 years dipping into pharmaceutical illegal trade I'd have a solid investment into my 401k

What they don't have the right to do though, is thinking their moral superiority regarding legalization allows them to disregard the consequences of buying illegal drugs

the current system doesnt work, the evidence doesnt support it, I just want to see it revised and more in line with proper lines of research, proper lines of law enforcement

Pretty sure evidence doesn't support your case either

As I said, do some research about the state of things in Netherlands

If we look back on history, like the evidence towards LSD research we see that for the few people who had psychological breakdowns, the majority did not

MKUltra failed

thats the kind of backdoor im talking about, legalize weed and there will be companies or group that make the potency stronger and more harmful than how it was before. Like vaccines, a cure for a disease is great but evil groups can jack it and put toxic metals in it thus making the population controllable and more dependent on the legality of things

I would say at that point we need a proper system to support true research, with funding put into means of testing outside of those influences

My issue with drugs are mostly moral, but we simply can't ignore the fact that even recreational drugs have unwanted consequences to other people

Tobacco tried this for decades and lost over time

DUI, passive smokers, all of that shit

Weed is just one of them

I mean I'd argue psilocybin and LSD in my life have made me more understanding and empathetic to people

I use pot for chronic pain from damaged nerves and torn muscles and that helps with less consequences than opioids

I drink to relax every few days to every few weeks and my liver comes back normal

My history in chemistry and biology gives me this perspective, I wont deny it, but I think just flat out ignoring the benefits of anything is poor choice

Yeah, like canabidiol, it's a good composite extracted from the sativa, but weed also has THC, which is mostly harmful

what would be your take on porn?

The problem is that people either want it everything legal or everything illegal

THC is not that harmful tbh, it doesnt cause permanent damage to most people

and I think thats the key bit the FDA often ignores (most people)

I never thought much of porn

Actually it does

I wouldnt say everything legal

I would more go to the side of decriminalized use

If someone sells a can of beer to someone underage they're a piece of shit ignoring the evidence for harm to developing brains

It increases your chance of developing schizophrenia by 6 times, there's evidence of causing sterility, short and medium memory lost

Besides psychological dependence

I need to see those studies tbh, Ive delved into THC research before and I didnt see any statistically significant factors for that

Psychological dependence is not a defense, that forms with all compounds

I mean that psychological dependence is a factor to consider harmful, not that it's exclusive

Yeah, true, not exclusive

and psychological dependence is a field itself in psychology and psychiatry

but we cannot blame compounds for that

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