Doesn’t it actually have some medical benefits such as helping with cancer or mental health problems and depression?
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It’s considered bad because somebody thought it was bad so they put it on the list. Sometimes politicians want to look like they are “addressing a problem” in order to win political support, and they ban or regulate something that isn’t really a problem.
Elected officials tend to make decisions their voters agree with or care strongly about, not always the “right” decision from a medical or scientific perspective.
Appointed officials like the head of the DEA are not supposed to conform to public pressure or opinion, but they are out in place by elected officials and can often be fired by them, so they are still pressured by what voters and/or a political party feels is right.
Hippies like Timothy Leary loved it. The US government hated hippies. So they made it illegal.
Because all law makers see is people eating fistfulls and losing their minds. They dont bother finding an actual use for them. Lol
because the government doesn’t like them cause they can be grown freely and they can’t tax it and get their pockets filled from big pharma
Public perception. The war on drugs in the 80s was big on the concept of “gateway” drugs. This was why marijuana is still a schedule I substance. It was widely believed that taking mind altering substances would lead to the abuse of more harmful drugs like cocaine and heroin. So government officials classified drugs based on their current accepted uses in the 80s. Marijuana and psilocybin had no accepted medical use so they were deemed as schedule I and placed under the strictest controls. Cocaine was actually still used in some dental procedures so it was given a schedule II designation.
In theory each substance should be allowed to be tested and change its schedule classification as medical science improves. However it is rare for dugs to change its schedule for many reasons. First and foremost is as I said public perception. Many people still see things like marijuana and psilocybin as a counterculture “hippie” thing. Not a legitimate medical drug. The second thing stems from that is politics which is it’s own can of worms.
It made people not want to be military-industrial-complex slaves, and help each other instead of fight each other, and feel the need for connection to be happy rather than buying shit.
Now they have to bring it back because people are too depressed to work due to being isolated military-industrial-complex slaves.
Recreational drugs got blanket banned in the 60’s, 70’s, and 80’s, and there hasn’t been enough medical research to confirm potential harm or benefits.
People will give you some weird answers but the real thing is pretty simple. It’s just people being people in a time when mental variety and criticizing the way the world works was distasteful.
The government bans most mind altering substances unless they are specifically developed for medicinal purposes and statistically proven to treat a problem. The problem being physical ailment or simply being mentally abnormal compared to most people (adhd, depression, bipolar, etc).
Traditional values and religion basically all said that being in an abnormal state of mind and questioning the foundations of society was “the devil”. You could consume substances to reach normalcy but the opposite was bad. Mind altering substances tend to make you ask questions and think in ways you normally don’t. Therefore they were considered so poorly that politicians gained support by denouncing and banning them.
This even extended to alcohol which lead to the Prohibition. But, unlike shrooms and LSD, alcohol (and nicotine) are quite addictive. Banning it just lead to people from all walks of life becoming criminals because they sought it out. It also heavily increased crime because syndicates could make a ton of money from alcohol smuggling.
TLDR: it got banned because, traditionally, being in an altered mental state is bad. Politicians wanted traditional support and here we are now.
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Its all in the dosage. About ten years ago, I started seeing posts about coders in the bay area micro-dosing LSD. In order to code well, you have to be smart.
However, coding is very boring. If the money is good enough, coders want to do well and stay in that career, so…some of them tried micro-dosing, and word of mouth spread.
It isn’t about getting high. It’s hard to lie about something when a lot of smart people have hands-on experience with something.
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