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New medicines come from researching different plants and chemicals. People regularly go out into forests in Africa and South America, find a new plant, and the
by proverbialbunny 6y ago
New medicines come from researching different plants and chemicals. People regularly go out into forests in Africa and South America, find a new plant, and then explore it for medicinal purposes. It's an actual profession.
There has been a ban on exploring certain plants in the last 50 years, and with that ban lifting, suddenly there is a constipated rush of research about these plants that would have otherwise been done slowly over decades.
- foota 6y agoWhat was that ban out of curiosity? Also, is there a name for this profession?
- proverbialbunny 6y agoThere is a name for the profession, but I don't know it. It's not my field of expertise. The ban? Schedule one medicine prohibited scientific research of those plants and chemicals. It wasn't until the presidency changed that, by turning a blind eye to it instead of enforcing it. The idea is if states legalize, then research should be legally allowed as well. Where I live all of this is legal, so it's where most of the research was happening. It's legal in more places in the US today, so for all I know research is happening now in more places.
- smokelegend 6y agoIn the US, Oregon is the only state to legalize mushrooms?
- proverbialbunny 6y agoI'm in the SF/Bay Area and it's legal here. What states have done is they legalize in the cities where the research is being done. (Or research follows where cities have legalized.)