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I wonder what effects do you expect from that on a societal scale in the long term (at least 3,4 decades) ? For instance we banned meth and other drugs that ha
by makeitdouble 2y ago
I wonder what effects do you expect from that on a societal scale in the long term (at least 3,4 decades) ?
For instance we banned meth and other drugs that have tremendous productivity effects at the expense of the individual and how we had to deal with them, so it's not a rhetoric question.
- kennedywm 2y agoWe didn’t fully ban them. We just prescribe them to anyone a doctor decides has ADHD.
- naikrovek 2y agoNot quite, but if one does not have ADHD or something similar, things like adderall have a very different effect than they do to someone who has ADHD. Your apparent disbelief in ADHD doesn’t make it imaginary, by the way. Consider yourself lucky that you do not have it; I am unemployable without medication.
- furyofantares 2y agoPeople without ADHD take adderall &etc for focus/performance enhancing reasons. Some get it from a friend, some are incorrectly diagnosed. I don't know if you disagree that this is the case, but I don't think it implies anything about ADHD.
- m2024 2y ago[dead]
- kennedywm 2y agoI have ADHD. It doesn’t change the fact that people feign ADHD in order to get access to amphetamines.
- datavirtue 2y agoDon't forget the military. Go pills.
- nick__m 2y agoYou will be surprised to learn that methamphetamine is not banned and that it is currently prescribed for refractary ADHD under the name desoxyn!
- makeitdouble 2y agoI'm aware we never "ban" any specific substance, as we say the dose makes the poison. And any substance that has any effect is also a potential cure for the disease that has the opposite effect. I should have been clear I saw it in the "make people smart" light, as doping an already acceptable situation, instead of correcting something perceived as a pathology. Meth was widely available over the counter at some point, and we made it legally disappear outside of strict medical settings.
- astrange 2y agoAnything in Schedule I is almost fully banned, though people will try hard enough to get around it that it doesn't matter.