Re:Should We Loosen the Restrictions on Psychedelics?
by LordDragonfang on Wednesday July 18, 2018 @04:49PM
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THC is classified under schedule 1, "no currently accepted medical use and a high potential for abuse."
There are heaps of evidence for it being useful in treating anxiety, appetite disorders, chronic pain (possibly better than opiods with much lower chance of addiction), and others.
LSD, schedule 1. Psilocybin, schedule 1. Both have been shown to be effective in treating ptsd. An analogue of the former has been shown to be the only thing clinically effective in treating cluster headaches.
Methamphetamine is schedule 2.
Drug laws are not evidence based.
They are definitely evidenced based.
We don't have to have a complete scientific run-down of opioids or THC to know their general effects on people.
We've decided that these - among many, many other substances are not for the common good - and that's why they're banned.
We don't ban alcohol for cultural and historical reasons, though it's banned in many places in addition to the fact that alcoholism was a massive social problem for a long time.
There's no 'new science' in dope that has caused us to change our laws either, just a different view towards it, and probably a better common understanding of it.