I have yet to hear any drug pundit have a kind word to say about heroin. And yet they'd surely change their tune if they shared my backstory. As a chronic depressive, I was placed on a Big Pharma drug 30 years ago, one that turned out to be far harder to kick than heroin. Far harder. When I mentioned my desire to get off the drug, a former psychiatrist of mine told me of an NIH study that found there was a 95% recidivism rate 1 for long-term users who attempted to kick the drug. 95%. Compare this to the Lee Robins study of American soldiers in Vietnam, where heroin use was rife among the rank and file. Robins found that only 5% of those soldiers sought help getting off the drug when they returned to the States. 5%. 2
American businesses judge people, not by the color of their skin but by the contents of their digestive systems.
The New York Times gets it wrong again. Yes, kratom, like all drugs, has downsides. The problem is not kratom, it's drug prohibition which limits choice. Nor are young people the only stakeholders in the debate, as the Times always assumes.
Assisted suicide cannot be discussed meaningfully without discussing the drug prohibition that renders it necessary in the first place.
The FDA says that MindMed's LSD drug works. But this is the agency that has not been able to decide for decades now if coca "works," or if laughing gas "works." It's not just science going on at the FDA, it's materialist presuppositions about what constitutes evidence.
Morphine can provide a vivid appreciation of mother nature in properly disposed minds. That should be seen as a benefit. Instead, dogma tells us that we must hate morphine for any use.
The formula is easy: pick a substance that folks are predisposed to hate anyway, then keep hounding the public with stories about tragedies somehow related to that substance. Show it ruining lives in movies and on TV. Don't lie. Just keep showing all the negatives.
Don't the Oregon prohibitionists realize that all the thousands of deaths from opiates is so much blood on their hands?
I never said that getting off SSRIs should be done without supervision. If you're on Twitter for medical advice, you're in the wrong place.
Do drug warriors realize that they are responsible for the deaths of young people on America's streets? Look in the mirror, folks. People were not dying en masse from opium overdoses when opiates were legal. It took your prohibition to accomplish that! Stop arresting, start teaching safe use!
People are talking about re-scheduling psilocybin, but they miss the point. We need to DE-schedule everything. It's anti-scientific to conclude in advance that any drug has no uses -- and it's a lie too, of course. End drug scheduling altogether! It's childish and wrong.
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