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Re:I was in the MAPS MDMA for PTSD study by WhitneyLand on Friday October 06, 2017 @03:18PM (#15419595)
Keep in mind that banning these drugs for personal consumption wasn’t nearly the intellectual crime that banning the research has been.

Substances have been banned in cultures for thousands of years. In the US - long before psychedelics came under scrutiny - opium, cocaine, and other drugs had been made illegal, but not before the 60s was actual basic research by scientists and physicians also banned.

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Re:I was in the MAPS MDMA for PTSD study by betterunix2 on Friday October 06, 2017 @09:54PM (#15421818)
"opium, cocaine, and other drugs had been made illegal"

FYI, opium and cocaine were banned for overtly racist reasons:

https://www.thenation.com/article/how-myth-negro-cocaine-fie...

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/mar/15/long-o...

So I am not sure those are the best examples to prove the point that banning drug research is a greater crime than banning recreational drugs.

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