The public itself needs to readjust its role with the government, where availability doesn't mean endorsement.
It is well known that humans can't make rational choices. If refrigerators with CFCs were still legal to purchase alongside non-CFC refrigerators, I'd be willing to bet the ozone layer would probably not exist right now. If leaded gasoline wasn't basically banned, I bet plenty of people will still drive around using leaded gasoline.
That is because "acting like adult" is used as term of approval. It means "a theoretically ideal" behavior. It does not mean "average adult have that psychology" nor "average adult have that value".
Yes, it's "ideal" in the sense that not everyone accomplishes that behavior (some people will fail a class or have bladder issues, obviously). But that doesn't mean "half the population failing Algebra I" or "half the population regularly pees their own pants" is an acceptable outcome in society.
Just because you can define "acting like an adult" as ideal rather than true in all real cases doesn't mean it shouldn't be an expectation.
Lysol can kill you and all your children.
Mouthwash can.
And for something with more similarities: advil.
All sold in gas stations.
So, do the studies just so that we can have fine print on the side of the bottle just like everything else, and sell it alongside everything else.
A car can kill you and all your children. Are you a proponent of allowing anyone to drive a car without restrictions (driver's licenses)? Slap a warning label on the steering wheel of a car "do not drive while drunk" and call it a day?
But you miss the point. Banning psychedelics prevents their use in psychotherapy.
Rolling back that ban do we can explore the possibilities is certainly sound.
Don't strawman what I said. I didn't say psychedelics should be banned. I said that they shouldn't be sold in gas stations (aka easily available to the public).
I fail to see how that prevents prescriptions from being a viable option, or a "mdma license" similar to a driver's license that is issued only after a person proves that they can safely use it.
Just because you don’t actively go out and seek for a drug does not mean you are not addicted (conditioned)to it.
But can I tell you my own brother said he "could not live without Prozac." What does that sound like to you?
Prozac artificially increases serotonin as as a result your serotonin receptor density changes. So trying to stop the drug, not only do you end up with all these horrible side effect, but your depression will be much worse until your receptor density normalizes again.
There is a biological marker for the need of insulin. There is no such thing when it comes to prozac.
Keep trying people.
Anyways, I agree with you w.r.t. many psychiatric drugs. Don't try to spread that into psychedelics though - completely different, it has enough of its own problems and it's not necessary to make up some non-existent on top of that.
Not for psychiatric drugs, which is my only point. I am not against pharmaceuticals.
I think psychedelics are safer in that regard. Nobody in the history of humanity has ever physically done "too much acid". Even some people who ingested tens of thousands of micrograms (thinking they were snorting coke) came out of it perfectly fine with appropriate care (since the amount was so high compared to the usual dosages, they did need medical care).
Serotonin syndrome is when you have too much serotonin, not too little.