Oh Wow Man! The Colors!
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.
On this I agree with you completely, DT. And I have worn my finger to a nub trying to discover that part of the Constitution which authorizes the federal government to dictate what we can or can’t put into our own bodies.
Stupidity should be illegal.
Long ago I did a week on microdot one night.
Or was it Wizard Mickey window pane?
Anyway, I found that stuff amazing and if not for the fact that at some point in my mid 20’s I balanced the notion of spending my time in jail or not and I stopped doing it even though I still smoked weed. It’s been close to 20 years since I last did an illegally made illegal substance.
Now, I occasionally do a legal substance that is far more dangerous than any illegal substance I ever did – alcohol.
“After all, it’s only a weed that turns into a flower in your mind.”