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50 years too late. Of course, 50+ years ago, it was the hippies doing the experimentation. As The Man hated the hippies and the youth culture of the time, they
by sizzzzlerz 7y ago
50 years too late. Of course, 50+ years ago, it was the hippies doing the experimentation. As The Man hated the hippies and the youth culture of the time, they instituted these draconian drug laws we've lived under since making it impossible to determine whether drugs like LSD or psilocybin or cannabis might have beneficial therapeutic effects.
- michaelvoz 7y agoBetter late than never?
- sizzzzlerz 7y agoNot much comfort to the thousands (millions?) of people that may have found some comfort in these drugs.
- mistermann 7y agoFair enough, but then on the other hand who knows where a continuation of widespread carefree usage of psychedelics would have led us....perhaps to a relative utopia, perhaps to societal chaos that would have resulted in a ban that would have lasted far more than 50 years. Either one seems perfectly plausible to me.
- buildzr 7y agoBut don't worry, we got those opiates, A++.
- refurb 7y agoMeh... 50 years ago psychedelics were overplayed and used in inappropriate settings. Not surprising the backlash. It looks like this time around the experiments are much more controlled and looking to get hard data rather than just "turn on, tune in, drop out".
- Synaesthesia 7y agoAt the same time the people who did take it seriously were also unfairly discredited. There was a legitimate theory of the psychedelic state as a "model psychosis" which was simply rejected during the anti-drug hysteria which followed. The government (CIA) also used psychedelics in all kinds of horrible, torturous ways with their experiments.