Without presenting anything pro or con, I notice this morning the announcement:

“Psychedelic Stocks Soar After Trump Order … accelerates psychedelics as the key next wave of mental health treatments.”

They used to be at least semi-legal up to about the 1960s. Valium was an over-the counter drug until the 70s, so was effective cough syrup. Methamphetamine was once common and legal … until the ’70s. Then the “it’s bad for you” crowd got control.

I’m not going to get into the rights and wrongs – but what I wanted to note is my suspicion that the main reason psychedelics and pain-killers are so tightly controlled is because people enjoyed them, especially during the Vietnam era as a means to “fight them hippies”. Then the bureaucracy got involved and started making any such illegal and/or heavily controlled.

(Bureaucracy with power – no matter the form of government – the root cause of many of the problems we enjoy today)

It’s the enjoyment that’s regulated, not the addiction. That goes back to the Puritans …

As the less-government type I am, I figure all that stuff should be legal – with immediate consequences for stupidity while under the influence.