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Re:Oregon becomes first state to legalize psychedelic mushrooms by jbotz on Wednesday November 04, 2020 @06:48AM (#24988197)
Your concerns may sound reasonable, but they are not evidence-based. So far the evidence beginning to accumulated from states/countries that have decriminalized and/or legalized previously prohibited drugs has been mostly contrary to your concerns.
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Re:Oregon becomes first state to legalize psychedelic mushrooms by supernova87a on Wednesday November 04, 2020 @12:30PM (#24991094)
Those states/countries decriminalized hard drugs like heroin?
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Re:Oregon becomes first state to legalize psychedelic mushrooms by jbotz on Wednesday November 04, 2020 @04:20PM (#24993169)
Yes, Portugal did, as did several other countries... here's a complete list: https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/countries-that-have-decr...
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Re:Oregon becomes first state to legalize psychedelic mushrooms by joveian on Wednesday November 04, 2020 @07:03PM (#24994380)
Don't forget Mexico back in 1940, although only for 6 months due to the US shutting off supplies of the drugs and the war preventing them from finding alternative suppliers:

https://www.historyextra.com/period/modern/1940-the-year-mex...

When I tried to find the Borderland Beat article where I first heard of this I found that the site has been closed due to (as best I can find with the site's own explanation no longer up) a lawsuit by a drug lord whose California driver's license was published on the site. Huge loss and I hope they get the site back eventually.

I did find one article I was looking for on the Internet Archive if anyone is interested, although the above is a much better link on just the legalization aspect (this one is mostly about one of the illegal drug trafficers affected). I think BB had another article on the legalization but I can't find a link to that one. As one might expect, the comments on BB tend to be more extreme than many sites in various ways.

https://web.archive.org/web/20200811192412/http://www.border...

https://web.archive.org/web/20190801143825/http://www.border...

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