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Keep in mind that banning these drugs for personal consumption wasn’t nearly the intellectual crime that banning the research has been. Substances have been ba
by WhitneyLand 9y ago
Keep in mind that banning these drugs for personal consumption wasn’t nearly the intellectual crime that banning the research has been.
Substances have been banned in cultures for thousands of years. In the US - long before psychedelics came under scrutiny - opium, cocaine, and other drugs had been made illegal, but not before the 60s was actual basic research by scientists and physicians also banned.
- betterunix2 9y ago"opium, cocaine, and other drugs had been made illegal" FYI, opium and cocaine were banned for overtly racist reasons: https://www.thenation.com/article/how-myth-negro-cocaine-fiend-helped-shape-american-drug-policy/ https://www.thenation.com/article/how-myth-negro-cocaine-fie... https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/mar/15/long-opiate-use-history-america-latest-epidemic https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/mar/15/long-o... So I am not sure those are the best examples to prove the point that banning drug research is a greater crime than banning recreational drugs.