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The New War on Weed (www.theatlantic.com)
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[–] 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Sorry, a little bit off-topic, but,

When we talk about war on drugs, why exactly is acid illegal?

I don’t see why it isn’t just a drug that requires prescription?

There are way waaay way waaay more dangerous chemicals legal in prescription only medicine (xanax an stuff, for example)

I don’t see the logic here neither

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    For everyone else: independent scientific research from both UK and the Netherlands classifies lsd and psilocybin as the least harmful drugs. Look it up.

    To answer your question directly, its fear.

    People fear what they don’t know.

    Governments fear the potential these drugs have to make people feel aware of things they were initially not.

    The hippy movement of the 60s was a long term unintended consequence of cia experiment with lsd on student volunteers. They did not like it.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago

    its because it's easy to deinstitutionalize yourself while on it. I never did it, but I did something similar appreciating art and media created by people who used it.

    If the drug war was suppose to help people, we would have social workers and public hospitals out the ass instead of police and just growing a psychoactive plant in a planted on your balcony wouldn't be illegal.

    LSD isn't really necessary to realize society is fake and bullshit at the same time. You just need to consume works of art like books and artistic movies to realize we're all just organizing around structures that don't actually serve us and just serves the most powerful people.

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