Re:Shifting views about psychedelic drugs require a new cate...
by kodah on Saturday July 01, 2023 @09:38PM
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Would it not be more efficient to challenge the evidence behind current scheduling, much less the standards used in scheduling? Trying to work around a system built by corrupt people is a bit like ignoring pests eating your garden and just making a new garden hoping they won't infest that too.
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Re:Shifting views about psychedelic drugs require a new cate...
by NtochkaNzvanova on Sunday July 02, 2023 @02:53PM
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California and other states already showed with marijuana that if you have enough local popular support, you can legalize drugs and the feds will do nothing. This is especially true right now with Democrats in control of the DoJ. In fact, if you look at cities like San Francisco, all drugs are already de facto decriminalized. CA could legalize LSD, psilocybin, MDMA, ketamine, etc. tomorrow.
Re:Shifting views about psychedelic drugs require a new cate...
by kodah on Sunday July 02, 2023 @05:43PM
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I live in Oregon, all drugs already are decriminalized. That doesn't solve a littany of problems and is progress, but albeit with short term thinking. Passing through states that consider what you can buy for $20 at a mom and pop shop a felony is bit more than just problematic. States passing laws relieves their citizens of pressure, but we still need to move drugs entirely to a states right or we need to correct the federal record.
State laws also marginalize people who are bound to federal services eg: veterans using the VA. A veteran cannot get ketamine, psilocybin, MDMA, or LSD based treatments or they'll be confused as an addict and dropped from VA plans.
Re:Shifting views about psychedelic drugs require a new cate...
by carlmr on Monday July 03, 2023 @03:58AM
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>dropped from VA plans.
This should be illegal, "thank you for your service, where you got PTSD from seeing your friends die, we will reward you with dropping you from your healthcare plan if you self-medicate".