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No, your Portugal-model belief isn't that "out there." In my (subjective) opinion, once you do your homework on the issue you come away assuming that the contin
by 09bjb 7y ago
No, your Portugal-model belief isn't that "out there." In my (subjective) opinion, once you do your homework on the issue you come away assuming that the continued scheduling of drugs with low addictive potential and high potential for therapeutic use is due to:
1. The healthcare and pharmaceutical profits at stake if people needed less care and fewer prescription pharmaceuticals
2. Cultural momentum excluding Alcohol from being considered a drug (LOL) and approving of drugs that support the protestant work ethic and existing labor system (caffeine, nicotine, and prescription amphetamines to stay alert on the job and alcohol to wind down in the evening), plus the cultural momentum of billions of dollars and decades spent on a pointless and damaging "War on Drugs"
3. The threat that psychedelics in particular pose to existing authority structures: high self-respect, beliefs that each human is as worthy as the next, and the ability to imagine less authoritarian systems are all threatening to the existing system. Tim Leary wasn't wrong when he said that (users) "won't fight your wars, won't join your corporations"
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There are five different schedules of controlled substances, numbered I–V. The CSA describes the different schedules based on three factors:
Potential for abuse: How likely is this drug to be abused?
Accepted medical use: Is this drug used as a treatment in the United States?
Safety and potential for addiction: Is this drug safe? How likely is this drug to cause addiction? What kinds of addiction?
- dangus 7y agoPlease don’t use code blocks for quotes, they’re impossible to read on mobile.
- grogenaut 7y agoIf people are going to complain about this, why isn't it in the posting instructions? In fact I don't see any posting instructions.
- vinceguidry 7y agoThey're not all that easy to read on desktop either. The real issue is that code isn't intended to wrap naturally, while prose is. Prose doesn't belong in code blocks.
- grogenaut 7y agoThe real issue is no one knows this and being informed of weird UI quirks by sporadic user messaging seems the wrong approach. Eg if you care so much should you not instead be requesting a software fix?
- vinceguidry 7y agoThere is no software fix other than simple removal of functionality. You still want code blocks to not wrap(scroll) and you still want prose blocks to wrap. We already have solutions for both cases. For prose quote with "> ". Making posting guidelines won't stop people from using the wrong thing. "Sporadic user messaging" is all there's left.
- grogenaut 7y agoYou can put a posting guide on the message submission form with these hueristics. You can detect very long lines in code blocks and issue a warning / suggest prose. Or automatically toggle.
- vinceguidry 7y agoYou're welcome to bring these suggestions to the moderators. Email: hn@ycombinator.com
- grogenaut 7y agoSo are you and you're the one who cares about layout. I can't because a) I can't represent what would work well or know all the solutions <code>2: I don't care about formatting so I'm not going to spend the effort. You do, why don't you explain the problem to them and let the devs invent a solution.
- vinceguidry 7y agoAgain, we already have solutions. You just don't like them.
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- mulmen 7y ago> There are five different schedules of controlled substances, numbered I–V. The CSA describes the different schedules based on three factors: > Potential for abuse: How likely is this drug to be abused? > Accepted medical use: Is this drug used as a treatment in the United States? > Safety and potential for addiction: Is this drug safe? How likely is this drug to cause addiction? What kinds of addiction?