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> One of the big warnings is that you should never take them if you took psychiatric medication last year or your family has a history of serious psychiatric pr
by w0de0 5y ago
> One of the big warnings is that you should never take them if you took psychiatric medication last year or your family has a history of serious psychiatric problems.
By legalizing the drug, don’t we expect the user to make these sort of judgements themselves? Who deals with the consequences of the many poor judgments that will be made (besides the poor user themselves)?
I think decriminalization, not legalization + capitalism as has happened with Marijuana, is the right choice here.
- ViViDboarder 5y agoLegalizing doesn’t prohibit regulation. You can legalize with requirements such as prescriptions or require sellers to ask questions and not sell to people with certain conditions. Alcohol is legal yet regulated such that it can only be sold to people of a certain age and trust people who have a history of alcoholism or are pregnant to self regulate. Is there evidence to suggest other drugs should be treated differently?
- msrenee 5y agoIt's illegal right now but I can still get you some by tomorrow. I'm not exactly much of a drug user either. It being illegal doesn't stop the majority of people who want it from getting it. It just makes it riskier. You don't know how strong any particular batch is going to be, you don't know if it's got anything on it that it shouldn't, and you don't feel safe going to the hospital if something goes wrong. Add in the growing evidence of the efficacy of mushrooms for psychiatric use in controlled settings and not only are we talking about increased risk by keeping it illegal, we also can't do the research to see if and at what dosage it is potentially a lifesaving medication.
- w0de0 5y agoDrug prohibition is about changing addiction from being an easy choice backed by marketing (I'll take a pack of Marlboros, please) to a challenging choice that does not present itself in ordinary life. It may not stop the majority of people from getting it, if they want it - but it does reduce the number of people to whom it occurs to want it.
- msrenee 5y agoI understand where you're coming from with that. I'd argue that it's not terribly effective and that it does more harm in preventing research on these drugs than it helps by keeping people from using it. I also wanted to add that psychedelics to my understanding are generally not addictive.