Re:In Colorado, opioid deaths fall following marijuana legal...
by pstuart on Monday October 16, 2017 @11:28PM
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I'm quite familiar with the history of LSD, as well as the history of cannabis.
The intelligence community thought they might have a miracle "mind-control" drug on their hands. Please show me the evidence (or reporting of such) that these programs were successful and are is still employed today.
It wasn't just the "intelligence" community that thought they had a powerful new tool -- legitimate researchers did plenty of work with it too.
HINT: Researchers are showing significant results using MDMA and Psilocybin for treating PTSD.
HINT: Plenty of California parents were not happy that their college age kids were exposed to LSD through non-governmental agents (a.k.a. dealers). Do you have any evidence that Owsley Stanley worked for the CIA?
You wanna know why they really made it illegal? Because unlike alcohol, which deadens the senses and is responsible for tens of thousands of deaths each year, LSD has the power to expand the consciousness of the user and they might question the status quo.
Is that prior paragraph correct? Nopes, can't prove it, but it makes much more sense than your conspiracy theories.
As to the other "drugs" which you inserted: they should be legalized and regulated too. Any sort of ostensible "harm reduction" is eclipsed by the damage that the criminalization itself causes.
My brother died of a heroin overdose. Having it be illegal didn't stop him from getting hooked and only made treatment harder to get.
Self-righteous moralizers such as yourself only continue to let the madness of prohibition continue.
The intelligence community thought they might have a miracle "mind-control" drug on their hands. Please show me the evidence (or reporting of such) that these programs were successful and are is still employed today.
It wasn't just the "intelligence" community that thought they had a powerful new tool -- legitimate researchers did plenty of work with it too.
HINT: Researchers are showing significant results using MDMA and Psilocybin for treating PTSD.
HINT: Plenty of California parents were not happy that their college age kids were exposed to LSD through non-governmental agents (a.k.a. dealers). Do you have any evidence that Owsley Stanley worked for the CIA?
You wanna know why they really made it illegal? Because unlike alcohol, which deadens the senses and is responsible for tens of thousands of deaths each year, LSD has the power to expand the consciousness of the user and they might question the status quo.
Is that prior paragraph correct? Nopes, can't prove it, but it makes much more sense than your conspiracy theories.
As to the other "drugs" which you inserted: they should be legalized and regulated too. Any sort of ostensible "harm reduction" is eclipsed by the damage that the criminalization itself causes.
My brother died of a heroin overdose. Having it be illegal didn't stop him from getting hooked and only made treatment harder to get.
Self-righteous moralizers such as yourself only continue to let the madness of prohibition continue.