Re:Psilocybin 'promising' for depression
by rmcpherson on Thursday April 15, 2021 @05:55AM
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This is one of the travesties of drug enforcement and has compounded inequality in America. The imprisonment of the poor for nonviolent drug offenses continues today. That a wealthy drug user would laud this as a good outcome of drug policy is honestly flabbergasting, but perhaps shouldn’t be.
Re:Psilocybin 'promising' for depression
by renewiltord on Thursday April 15, 2021 @01:08PM
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It's really quite awful, isn't it? Completely inequitable and very unfair. But if I had to choose between equal misery and unequal prosperity, I think I choose the latter each time.
I'd like for us to make psychedelics accessible to all, but since lots of people don't want that, I think I'll settle for keeping psychedelics accessible to me.
So what it does is that it allows you to use as many drugs as possible when you're something like a high-income professional and sort of criminalizes drug use among working class people.
Your "test" for being a safe drug user is to have a lot to lose.
Drug use is rampant in SF for instance. And I know lots of drug users: cocaine, MDMA, psychedelics.
I used to think "why doesn't society just make you post a bond that lets you act in a slightly more unrestrained manner" and now I've realized society does! You just have to constantly be in a state of having too much to lose.
Personally, I use shrooms frequently (I have some in my fridge right now) and LSD less frequently and MDMA rarely. All of these have been amazing eye opening experiences and I am a much better person for them. Thank God.
All a coastal California perspective of course.