The government shouldn't be telling you how to live your life, sure. But that doesn't change reality that the vast majority of people out there are not qualified to make a medical assessment for themselves about the severity of synthetic substances (and many naturally occurring substances as well)f
It feels like the culture of family and community is steadily being eroded in the United States in favor of liberalization at any cost.
Predictably, too, police culture is one of violence: High rates of domestic violence among police is one of the pillars of the kind of cultural rot exemplified and spread by Andrew Tate. The real problems are not that we lack a "culture of family and community" but that, based partly on the Drug War and partly on white Christian nationalism, we have a culture of brutality.
You'll be pleased to hear then that the law we're discussing requires trained supervision: https://www.opb.org/article/2022/12/27/oregon-trains-psilocy...
People should have the right to treat themselves as best they can.
Finally, if you look into the history of the War on Drugs, you'll find that the basis of it was oppression of classes of people, not safety.
I'm saying the same thing. It appears irresponsible to resort to substances that affect your behavior in non deterministic ways to fix a perceived problem.
A child with the privilege of growing up in a good community, tends to have better outcomes and socio economic problems don't have solutions at the end of a needle.
While I slagged pharma solutions I also acknowledge that they have value too. Our brains are biochemical machines and sometimes the chemistry needs a tweak. When done right it's life changing.
> A child with the privilege of growing up in a good community
And those that don't?
> don't have solutions at the end of a needle
That's quite a leap.
Medication can be valuable for mental health, but there are risks. While there are abuses of this, it still doesn't discount the value for those it does help.
Psychedelics/Ketamine/MDMA are showing great promise in therapeutic contexts and it's about time they are allowed to be used. They also can be enjoyed recreationally (and also abused), but again, that doesn't discount the legitimate medicinal use of them.
Your approach seemed to be that people just need to be born in the right community and upbringing and have a good life and everything will be all right.
The War on Drugs has been a catastrophic failure and attitudes such as yours support the continuation of that mistake.
Great ending, right? Too bad he's too stupid to make the right decisions. Or maybe you're saying he made HIS decision, so fuck him anyway.