As someone who has received a tremendous amount of healing and comfort from psychedelics (in particular psilocybin mushrooms), I sincerely hope that legal psychedelic treatment becomes available before it’s too late for the depressed, anxious, and law abiding loved ones in my life. My Dad has a lot of health issues and struggles with depression and anxiety that becomes quite crippling at times. It has caused a great deal of pain for my family and I over the years. I’ve always thought that he would be an excellent candidate for psychedelic treatments but the legality and negative stigma attached ensures he will never become one.
It’s legal in Canada in a limited fashion to licensed suppliers and therapists.
I’ve had similar experiences and I’m excited about the possibilities.
The stigma might take a while to go away for some people who have been so conditioned that “drugs” are for “burnouts” and “frying brains”, but there is real work being done in the space by compassionate and very smart people.
One of two things will happen, depending on whether a drug is inherently harmful or not:
1) if a drug is inherently harmful, its (ab)users will not be able to reach any influential position in society, and the stigma will stay
2) if a drug is not inherently harmful, a certain percentage of its users will reach influential positions and thus remove the stigma by being the proof of its harmlessness
For some drugs, like meth and heroin, 2) will most likely never happen. Those drugs are very hard to control and have a tendency to take over users' lives, rendering everything else in their lives irrelevant.
For other drugs, like marijuana, we are already seeing 2) happening in many countries around the world, including USA and European Union.
Meh meth is prescribed for some adhd cases today and those people are totally functional and fine. Same with their other cousins. Same with painkillers.
Its just they have abuse potential, especially opioid’s, and that is why you have to be careful about it.
Its the entire schedule 1 bullshit that prevents usage of some, and those are political.
Methamphetamine is perfectly safe when used correctly. The problem, obviously, is trust and self-control. Because it's so potent and crosses the blood-brain barrier easier, IIRC it has less intense physical side effects compared to the equivalent (in terms of mental effects) D-amphetamine dose.
How exactly do you go about asking your doctor to try meth?
Even asking for D-amphetamine (superior to Adderall imo, because Adderall contains L-amphetamine which has unpleasant physical effects) is already a tall order. I've read of doctors getting "flagged" for prescribing it.
You don't go in asking for a specific med. You go in for ADHD symptoms and work with your doctor from there trying different medications and dosages to find one that fits you.
"Hart is known for his research on drug abuse and drug addiction, for his advocacy for the decriminalization of recreational drugs, for his controversial view that drug use is not necessarily unhealthy, and for his acknowledged use of heroin."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Hart
It is far more powerful, and cheaper, and prevents sleep - that is the most dangerous. The tendency to re-dose is high enough to be difficult for low-willpower people to not succumb to.
Heroin, opiates, and opoids, can also be used with a relatively decent risk-profile. The potential for addiction is higher, once tolerance is established.
Xanax makes meth and heroin look like kid's toys.
Don't take Xanax except for when you genuinely feel like you may hurt yourself.
This argument doesn’t seem sound. Stigma for drugs increases and decreases over time. That wouldn’t happen if it was a question of the drug being inherently harmful or not. You seemed to have missed a third case of opponents of a drug becoming more powerful than its users and sympathizers. See US prohibition of alcohol and the global criminalization of many drugs in ~1971.
Given Nazí occultism, I think he was not the only one, and that they didn't have it entirely under control too. I think the occultists got themselves stimulant psychosis.
