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Looks a lot like propaganda. Not saying it's inaccurate, but pointed squarely.

• andai 10y ago
  Well.. if you have a latent mental illness and you take psychoactive substances, you may have a bad time. The issue is complicated: people often don't know about their illness and don't know that they respond differently to substances than other people do. I'm looking forward to a future where genetic testing for these things is as common as testing your drugs for purity (which, i hope, will also be be more common!)
  • jack9 10y ago
    > you take psychoactive substance So are they going to release individual studies for each of the other substances? This is the crux of the issue for me.
    • Broken_Hippo 10y ago
      Hopefully we'll get to that point. It isn't like the research is complete in any way.
• Broken_Hippo 10y ago
  Not everything is propaganda. This is more of a risk-knowledge sort of thing, and hopefully with legalisation we can know more about the actual risks involved and be able to self-screen so that we can know our personal risks. Look, if you know when you are newly 21 and finally legal to smoke that if you have a latent mental illness, smoking could make it rear its head, what do you do? For most of us, the risk is pretty small, so we go ahead. This is especially the case if we know what to do if things go south. But if your father was schizophrenic, you might think twice. If your older brother was as well, you might very well skip - or you might not care, deciding to not let worse case scenarios run your life. Sidenote: I think it is grand to have a complete view of these things - like most things, not all good but not all bad.