. To now say we have new info, this is good, that is good, well, I don’t think that negates the negative myself and whitewashes over the negative so people can use something that really isn’t good for you in the first place.
I think all I can say is that: "
Everyone is entitled to their own opinions, but they are not entitled to their own facts."
They are making scientific studies and things in order to better understand the potential therapeutic uses of certain things currently classified as "illegal drugs".
Are you saying that studies such as those finding how helpful herb can be for cancer patients are bunk? Propaganda? Because from my perspective, and I think objectively speaking, the propaganda seems to be in the other direction.
Furthermore, you have to understand the context in which the substances were banned. With ganja for example, in the USA it had something to do with the fact that it was mainly Mexican migrants who smoked. Mushrooms I'm guessing had a lot to do with wanting to suppress the hippy movement.
Its not about big pharma. Drugs create alot of other problems that the government has to deal with. They don't want to deal with them, nobody likes unnecessary avoidable burden.
You might have a point when it comes to things like heroin. The opiate epidemic in the USA shows that many people can't be trusted not to abuse these things when they're available.
On the other hand, it costs a lot of money to incarcerate the vast number of people currently imprisoned with long sentences for drug offences. Not to mention the loss in tax revenues from the black market, or all the violence of the cartels and it's effects on Mexican society and other producer countries.
But ganja and mushrooms? Legalizing and regulating them would resolve far more problems than it would create.
