>We prescribe drugs too casually (South Park's ritalin episode, the current opioid epidemic, young hiphop performers promoting Xanax) and at the same time the w

>We prescribe drugs too casually (South Park's ritalin episode, the current opioid epidemic, young hiphop performers promoting Xanax) and at the same time the war on drugs is still going on, and the "establishment" doesn't really want to accept effective drugs that have "immoral" side-effects (eg. look at the story of how ketamine treatment for severe clinical depression went down, it passed FDA review, but it requires a separate clinic, it uses the "boring" version of the molecule, and thus might not even worth the cost). I was talking to someone recently about medical marijuana on our state. We have it, but it's supposedly a complex process. He brought up something about "having to exhaust all other treatments for a condition before trying for a medical card". I hope this isn't true, because it seems absolutely irresponsible to prescribe opioids or benzodiazepines for a conditon that could treated with a less dangerous drug.