Doesn’t it actually have some medical benefits such as helping with cancer or mental health problems and depression?
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I listened to an interview recently where someone (David Nutt) who was researching psilocybin spoke about how ridiculous the restrictions are. In order to be allowed to research it in his lab, he had to dedicate a special, locked room for it’s storage, and it had to contain some uber secure safe and a bunch of other precautions.
He then asked the people “Why can’t I just keep it in the locked storeroom downstairs we we keep the *literal heroin and cocain*e *we use* for other research?”
The main reason though, officially speaking at least, is that drugs in schedule 1 are deemed to have “no medical benefits.” Even though other drugs like opiates might be more dangerous, they can be used as a medication in a hospital setting, therefore gets a lower schedule. The whole system is fucked though, since once a drug gets schedule-oned it makes it almost impossible to do any research on it that would be able to change it’s scheduling, even with insane restrictions like “we’ll allow you to research it only if the research proves the negative side effects and nothing positive.”
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