No problem, people get too upset over little things but I think being challenged on things is fine.
That is the issue. The laws vary from place to place but here, if a person is severely mentally impaired they lose their power of attorney which gives their right to make personal decisions to a care giver. I suppose if someone loses their right to manage their own affairs they would be considered unable to make the decision to use a drug but it would be difficult to enforce a law like that. Imagine for a moment that drugs are legal and you own a store that sells them. If someone walks in and seems normal enough, how would you know if he or she is crazy or not? Age restrictions would be easier and they seem to work fairly well to keep kids from getting alcohol and tobacco. When I was a teenager I (or any other teenager) could have found just about any illegal drug with much less effort than it would take to get a few beers.
Cannabis really needs to be legal for those reasons. Change is coming on that front because no one really believes those lies anymore. Canada is about to legalize this year, if I am not mistaken. About half of the U.S. has some form of legal weed. Mexico has been talking about making it legal for years and some European countries are toying with the idea. As it spreads it will be harder to justify the laws against it. Some places may never come around but most will at some point, I think.
Psychedelics have some potential benefits also. Psilocybin mushrooms can treat a certain sever type of headache and are being used to help people with the end of life anxiety. Others have even shown promises in treating opioid addiction (I just read an interesting article about earlier, in fact).
Oppression and prejudice are stubborn beasts but hopefully people can move past those ideas and practices. Division is what allows the corruption to continue and I think people are starting to realize that more and more.
Too true - I've seen some studies on shrooms as well but the prospect of tripping my face off has kind of got me thinking that it could be a bit daunting, however, I luckily don't suffer with such troubles. I think the headache article was a study done with people who suffer from chronic headaches of which oxycodone was even unable to relieve the pain. In that instance I think shrooms would be a better alternative as oxy has been known to be one of the worst abused painkillers in the States. The benefit of shrooms however is that they apparently do not cause a physical addiction which is super great. Also, I think treating people with shrooms who suffer with issues like end of life anxiety could be quite interesting - would also love to read the article you read if you still have the link.
This is what I read today:
https://steemit.com/opioid/@andrewjoseph/the-cure-for-opioid-addiction-is-illegal
I have seen a lot of information about this stuff going around lately.
Definitely a great read and also insightful - America really does have a big problem with opioids. Thanks for sending me the link and thanks for entertaining my views.
No problem. Thanks for reading and commenting.