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RE: EmmaSofia: Helps Legalize Psychedelics
Psychedelics are illegal because a sizable part of the population are afraid of them. In the realm of drug policy the science about their effects does not come into it, it’s just about the votes. It does not matter if the police forces and medical experts say chasing drug users is a counter productive waste of resources, if people are scared of something they do not understand then politicians will not take the risk of being called soft on drugs.
Exactly, agreed:) Therefore we need to educate the population and stop the scaremongers.
Agree!
I laugh, "ironically", as I drink my morning coffee, while reading this post. The coffee is in a D.A.R.E.(Drug Abuse Resistance "Education") Seriously. I got the mug from a local police officer as a "perk" for donating to his local affiliate.(Don't Judge me, it was a political move on my part)
I at the time of the donation did not have the intestinal fortitude(guts) or "balls" to tell him that he was probably "educating" in such a way as to encourage drug use, rather than resistance.
I remember in my teen years "seeking" the truth, rather than falling for the anti-drug propaganda, such as "Reefer Madness"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reefer_Madness
and "Go Ask Alice" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_Ask_Alice
Yes, you are right. It is propaganda. Never heard about Reefer Madness or Go Ask Alice. But in Norway we were told that you become psychotic and schizophrenic if you took LSD. Lies, lies and more lies.
education is essential