I'm an optimist. The success of cannabis gives a playbook for successful liberalization: find good medical uses, push hard to allow more research, show that so

I'm an optimist. The success of cannabis gives a playbook for successful liberalization: find good medical uses, push hard to allow more research, show that society can handle prescription access, educate, legalize. This is already starting with MDMA and psychedelics. In some ways, it's funny that in our hyper-medicated age, that a stimulant and a heavy painkiller are still unspeakably taboo. I mean, every graduate school and Ivy League college in our country is awash with powerful stimulants (Adderall). It wouldn't surprise me if a properly controlled/dosed drug with coca extract in it could be more effective than amphetamines for attention issues. I never want to touch heroin, but with the abuse of prescription painkillers, criminalizing usage of one drug (and thus funding criminal networks) seems like a worse and worse strategy.