• ickplant@lemmy.worldOPM
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    8 months ago

    And that’s why we need to legalize it all - so we can study it and have non-anecdotal evidence.

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      8 months ago

      what ? because you think they have no way of experimenting on it because it’s illegal for common folks ? Someone needs to visit a lab once it seems. I mean how the fuck do you think they got this results ?

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        8 months ago

        You are correct about legalization. However, having it as a schedule 1 drug severely limits the testing that can be done with it. Schedule 1 drugs are seen as drugs with no medical value therefore there is no need to work with them for medical purposes. It is the same reason marijuana isn’t legal. You can’t really test with it but people would point to it not having any long term studies as the reason it is not legal. It is a circular argument used by conservatives and liberals that are endorsed by pharmaceutical companies. The scheduling of drugs was politicized by Reagan to surppress the liberal movements that grew in the 60s and 70s.

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        8 months ago

        I didn’t say about anything about how it works, simply that we need research, randomized controlled trials, actual data on all of psychedelics. Which means they need to be legalized first.

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          8 months ago

          already done. First what do you think they do to ban them ? Second they are banned for sale to the public but experiments are done regularly

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            8 months ago

            I’m well aware of how it works. Are you saying that anecdotal evidence should be given the same weight as randomized controlled trials? Research doesn’t remove it, but it sure carries a lot more weight.

            My point about legalization still stand regardless of what type of evidence we are talking about.