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"Good people on crack are more likely to do bad things over time. Bad people on mushrooms are much less likely to be worse than their usual selves (based on stu
by pmoriarty 5y ago
"Good people on crack are more likely to do bad things over time. Bad people on mushrooms are much less likely to be worse than their usual selves (based on studies)."
Of all drugs, legal and illegal, the drug that is most associated with violence is alcohol.
Yet most people don't get in to a moral panic over alcohol anymore, as they used to during the original Prohibition of the 1920's.
We've learned from the original, failed prohibition of the '20s. We understand that when people abuse alcohol it is a medical issue, not something to throw people in jail for.
We need to learn the same lesson about all the other drugs, almost all of which are far less harmful than alcohol.
- mekoka 5y agoAgain, the current issue with psychedelics is not a debate on Drugs with a capital D. It's rather about the mischaracterization of psychedelics. Because of their mind altering properties, psychedelics are continually conflated with other drugs, simply because we like big umbrellas. The reason they're currently being brought out of prohibition is responsible and compelling research that is demonstrating that their benefits heavily outweigh their harmfulness. If you want to legalize crack, then responsible and compelling research should probably also do the same. If you want to pin alcohol against crack when it comes to harmfulness, note that alcohol is also legal and thus more prevalent. https://bibliography.maps.org/bibliography/default/resource/15836 https://bibliography.maps.org/bibliography/default/resource/... See graph on page 4. Heroin and crack are still illegal, yet already significantly harmful. Let's not assume that legalizing them would keep the standing the same.
- partomniscient 5y agoThey're not easy direct comparisons though. Alcohol personality changes are (now) fairly simple compared with the wide variety of substances and possible behaviours. The whole approach is wrong. Criminalise the behaviour, not the drugs and then people can work out which drugs they're compatible with. Some people are great when drunk, some are violent arseholes. The same is true for other substances.
- adminscoffee 5y agolet's bring back the original coca-cola, it's crazy to think that some of our grandparents and great grandparents use to drink coke as a teenage/child. but yes, prohibition has caused more pain and suffering in the world than any war combined. it's a shame how much money we waste on locking up people who already feel beaten down by life, a lot of drug addicts are people trying to self medicate