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HHS Calls for Moving Marijuana to Lower-Risk US Drug Category
- 3pac 3y agoYou can't be sure what's in it these days, especially if it looks super professionally packaged.
- penjelly 3y agothats unrelated to its classification
- more_corn 3y agoNow do mushrooms
- simonswords82 3y agoAnd LSD
- CameronNemo 3y agoOK I'm really high now. What next?
- jondwillis 3y agoFreedom to do what you want as long as it doesn’t have negative externalities?
- _2z1p 3y agoUnpopular opinion around here, but strong hallucinogenic drugs can have negative externalities.
- grglburgp 3y agoSame as computers, cars, fossil fuels, social media, airplanes, plastic, guns, politics, capitalism, sunlight… Did you hear about life itself? Leading cause of death.
- Tostino 3y agoAnything worse than alcohol?
- penjelly 3y agoone often discussed topic of psychedelics is "ego shedding/death" usually seen as a positive thing, which it can be. But it can certainly misalign you for life as you currently know it. So, you may end up "in a worse situation" if your life was going well, you experience "ego shedding" after which you struggle to return to "normal life". This concept is terrifying for a lot of people, and rightly so i think
- lockhouse 3y agoPermanent psychosis or murdering your friends and family because you hallucinated them into a harmful monster? https://www.vice.com/en/article/7k9pmz/acid-lsd-fuelled-murder-homicide https://www.vice.com/en/article/7k9pmz/acid-lsd-fuelled-murd...
- xyzwave 3y agoYou’re cherry-picking [0] (using Vice to boot). Not to mention people do that without drugs. How about the thousands who don’t commit violent crimes as a result of taking these drugs [1]? Sorta like the clothesline paradox [2]. 0. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherry_picking#:~:text=Cherry%20picking%2C%20suppressing%20evidence%2C%20or,that%20may%20contradict%20that%20position https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherry_picking#:~:text=Cherr.... 1. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-021-01336-3 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-021-01336-3 2. https://www.oreilly.com/radar/the-clothesline-paradox-and-the-sharing-economy/ https://www.oreilly.com/radar/the-clothesline-paradox-and-th...
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- jrflowers 3y agoPlay Katamari
- voxelghost 3y agopolynomial quotient rings
- FFP999 3y agoNo you got the order backwards. Remember the old saying from college: "Polynomial quotient rings before acid, the rest of your day will be quiet and placid. Acid before polynomial quotient rings, you'll wish that you hadn't done one of those things."
- runnerup 3y agoAnd anabolic steroids.
- lockhouse 3y agoI disagree. Anabolic steroids can be extremely harmful, even to others as it can cause "roid rage." They can also be addictive. https://recovery.org/steroid-addiction/ https://recovery.org/steroid-addiction/
- FFP999 3y ago[dead]
- runnerup 3y agoIt's extremely rare that anyone gets "roid rage" or addiction. Rage is induced far more often by people not being able to vape/smoke in airports. Any kind of rage associated with steroids is usually caused by too little estrogen, which only really happens when taking anti-estrogen pills, not generally from the steroids themselves, and when this happens can be rapidly fixed by adjusting hormones with hCG, HMG, or estradiol valerate -- none of which are scheduled, hCG is cheap on the gray market, and estradiol is widely available to trans women. Addiction is so rare that the American Medical Association, FDA, and even the DEA itself opposed scheduling anabolic steroids, because of the lack of evidence that steroid use resulted in dependence[0]. This is why it simply doesn't belong on the controlled substance schedules. There's a lot of post-hoc justification and propaganda about it now that it's illegal. But the evidence doesn't support this propaganda. It is fairly effective at convincing a non-trivial amount of the population though. 0: https://healthlaw.org/increasing-access-to-testosterone-to-improve-the-lives-of-transmasculine-people/#:~:text=The%20law%20was%20opposed%20by,of%20the%20Controlled%20Substances%20Act https://healthlaw.org/increasing-access-to-testosterone-to-i....
- hellotheretoday 3y agoSomewhat realistic that it could achieve fda approval for ptsd treatment by 2024. although it would probably be like you have to go do it at a clinic, at least at first
- t1mmen 3y agoAs far as I understand, it’s probably a bit further out for psilocybin. Compass Pathways are the furthest along I believe, with Phase 3 reads-outs expected next year for treatment resistant depression. Unless it’s fast-tracked, 2025 seems more likely. 2024 can happen for MDMA, though. MAPS has completed (I believe) Phase 3B for comparing PTSD. It’s happening, but slowly. I fully expect these wonderful molecules to be widely available in clinical settings within 5 years, including LSD and ibogaine (which seems particularly promising for addiction treatment)
- archo 3y agohttps://archive.is/3hK6O https://archive.is/3hK6O