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Re:Santa Cruz decriminalizes psychedelic mushrooms by mapcars on Thursday January 30, 2020 @01:14PM (#22193692)
>which is what the current decriminalization conversation is about.

What makes you think the next demand won't be for other drugs as well?

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Re:Santa Cruz decriminalizes psychedelic mushrooms by akiselev on Thursday January 30, 2020 @07:46PM (#22197773)
Because when Portugal decriminalized every drug, the country saw an increase in drug use that was the same as the increase in other countries that didn't decriminalize [1]

[1] https://academic.oup.com/bjc/article-abstract/50/6/999/40402...

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Re:Santa Cruz decriminalizes psychedelic mushrooms by FisDugthop on Thursday January 30, 2020 @04:12PM (#22195651)
Oh look, it's the gateway-drug argument [0] all over again.

The short version is that, for those other drugs that the grandparent listed in their comment, they are already scheduled for medical usage. Only the psychedelics are scheduled away from any legal usage.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gateway_drug_theory

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