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Then we have way too many measuring sticks. 1. Medical consensus say it's bad, but it's kept legal: tobacco, alcohol, drinking bleach. 2. There's no medical c
by Uberphallus 5y ago
Then we have way too many measuring sticks.
1. Medical consensus say it's bad, but it's kept legal: tobacco, alcohol, drinking bleach.
2. There's no medical consensus, but it's forbidden anyway: LSD, mushrooms, DMT...
3. Medical consensus say it's bad, and it's forbidden: cocaine, heroin, meth...
4. Medical consensus say it's good, but we ban it anyway: MDMA in the context of psychotherapy [0].
5. There's no medical consensus, but we ban some yet not others that have an identical mechanism of action: poppers
That's without getting into the fact that the federal schedule system is seemingly impermeable, and cocaine or heroin have accepted medical uses, but somehow weed doesn't, despite all the evidence it does.
[0] Linking because maybe not many are aware: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2050324518767442 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/20503245187674...