An Experience with Modafinil

Re:An Experience with Modafinil by refurb on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @03:24AM (#30069526)

Cocaine was isolated long before current drug laws, so I'm not sure I buy the argument "if it were invented today". Cocaine wasn't invented today and was banned.

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Re:An Experience with Modafinil by inter_netuser on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @05:55AM (#30070449)

modafinil was invented today and is scheduled, aka illegal to possess without prescription.

however, modafinil it's actually cleaner and even safer than caffeine. That's the point. a less toxic, safer drug is illegal to possess (w/o rx).

How would you justify making a much more toxic drug completely unrestricted, what would be your argument? We'd just have cops showing confiscated bags of big bad evil drug caffeine to kids in DARE classes.

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Re:An Experience with Modafinil by netizen-936824 on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @05:45AM (#30070388)

It was banned because people associated it with "scary black people"

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Re:An Experience with Modafinil by netizen-936824 on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @10:48AM (#30073124)

I'm past the edit window so here's an example

https://www.nytimes.com/1914/02/08/archives/negro-cocaine-fi...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cocaine_in_the_United_States

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