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I have a theory that the medical community has a somewhat antagonistic view on mind-affecting drugs that work and have genuine positive effects - it's that heal

I have a theory that the medical community has a somewhat antagonistic view on mind-affecting drugs that work and have genuine positive effects - it's that healthy and/or undiagnosed people will take said drugs willingly, as they provide their positive effects for healthy individuals, and they'll instantly get labeled as abusable drugs, whose consumption is tied to heavy criminal charges. This reputation and the accompanying legal red tape makes medical research into said compounds very difficult. An ironclad rule for medically approved drugs is that no fun is allowed - approved drugs must not have any positive effects on mood or well-being or must come with such heavy side effects that no sane healthy person would willingly take them. For some reason, the medical profession considers the enhancement of one's quality of life beyond some arbitrarily chosen 'healthy' baseline to be forbidden, and is in cahoots with the executive branch to gatekeep it at all costs.

hnlmorg 2y ago
There are plenty of medical substances out there that are chemically similar to recreation drugs. Particularly in the fields of painkillers and anaesthesia.
iancmceachern 2y ago
Its not the medical professionals making these decisions. That's like soldiers choose what tanks they drive. They don't. These decisions are made by the hospital/insurance company "complex"
- neilquinn 2y ago
  Nah that’s too recent This is all due to scientists having to obscure what they are doing to ameliorate the “don’t clone animals or build nuclear reactors” types. See the majority on the planet are intolerant religious groups. God has a natural plan types. We’re not to muck with it and to get jobs working for the rich God hand picked. So we had to invent jobs synthesizing drugs to get around stupid religion and the politics the religious controlled. And those innumerate politicians saw it as a way to make up a political agenda. There’s a whole lot going on in tech and science that’s just dumb jobs role play. Most of it just normalizing the math of relativity as physical science has bounded human story. Whole lot of people freaking out at that. System is falling apart with generational churn as experience is not evenly distributed; new people never experienced the past highs and feel the demands to not just use shrooms is corny af since no such ban really exists, it was just social paranoia of a prior generation.

hnlmorg 2y ago

There are plenty of medical substances out there that are chemically similar to recreation drugs. Particularly in the fields of painkillers and anaesthesia.

iancmceachern 2y ago

Its not the medical professionals making these decisions. That's like soldiers choose what tanks they drive. They don't. These decisions are made by the hospital/insurance company "complex"

neilquinn 2y ago
Nah that’s too recent This is all due to scientists having to obscure what they are doing to ameliorate the “don’t clone animals or build nuclear reactors” types. See the majority on the planet are intolerant religious groups. God has a natural plan types. We’re not to muck with it and to get jobs working for the rich God hand picked. So we had to invent jobs synthesizing drugs to get around stupid religion and the politics the religious controlled. And those innumerate politicians saw it as a way to make up a political agenda. There’s a whole lot going on in tech and science that’s just dumb jobs role play. Most of it just normalizing the math of relativity as physical science has bounded human story. Whole lot of people freaking out at that. System is falling apart with generational churn as experience is not evenly distributed; new people never experienced the past highs and feel the demands to not just use shrooms is corny af since no such ban really exists, it was just social paranoia of a prior generation.