The world’s No. 1 bro-caster, who has expressed some buyer’s remorse over his endorsement of Trump, stood directly behind the president, who was seated at the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office signing an executive order to ease restrictions on medical research and treatments using psychedelic drugs.

  • lIlIlIlIlIlIl@lemmy.world
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    27 days ago

    Please help me understand how this is remotely a W. They are never going to willingly give people good things that make life better.

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      27 days ago

      It is a W, it’d be more of a W if they hadn’t completely fucked grants and medical research funding. The truth is that it’s insane what the medical community has to do to research the medical viability of something that was ruled to have no medical viability, despite at the time it was scheduled showing promise and continuing to show promise outside of the states and in the medical studies that have bent over backwards to follow the rules.

      Psychedelics were once viewed as one of the most promising breakthroughs in mental health treatment and because of Nixon and Regan and their racist war on drugs, that legacy has been kicked down the road.

      I’ll concede that it’s a minor w, in a sea of shit, piss, and blood. But I’m gonna count my blessings.

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        27 days ago

        It’s too bad this maladministration is cutting scientific research funding so deeply, so not sure how much any research is going to happen, including this, but…I remain hopeful, I guess.

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        27 days ago

        This isn’t making it legal at all. This is reducing restrictions on research.

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        27 days ago

        I asked you, after you stated it’s “a W,” to help me understand your thinking. I’ve already given reasons why I think this is neutral at best.

        Why do you consider this to be a good thing, after what you’ve seen them do to “science” and “health?”

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          27 days ago

          Come now, it’s better. Just as breakbone fever is better than malaria. Our country has been permanently seized by gangsters. And your countries are next. Which is not better. We are doomed, doomed I tell you. Unless we organize obviously.

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          27 days ago

          Yes, I did read your comment before replying to it. You explained nothing. I don’t know how to explain how legalization of readily available an inexpensive methods that have been proven to treat mental illnesses for decades being even considered for legalization is obviously a W.

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              27 days ago

              It’s in the article:

              The executive order directs the Food and Drug Administration to support clinical trials for psychedelics and speed up the process to approve drugs deemed to be safe and effective , including ibogaine, psilocybin, MDMA and LSD, all of which are illegal in the United States.

              I’m not sure what other way you could interpret that.