Have you ever tried these compounds? At lower doses, there's really no significant visuals or hallucinating at all. It's more like it gives you different perspectives, different ways of thinking, strategies for being happier, strategies for dealing with difficult issues in your life.
With the trends of microdosing, I think the lower dosage trips will be much more popular.
With that being said - it's not for everyone, and could be bad for some people. I'm all for the personal responsibility aspect and being able to decide for myself.
I'm all for microdosing, if done in a controlled environment with a (medical) professional present. The problem with it being available for anyone to just "try as they want" is that most people don't know what the proper safe dosage is. I don't think it should be illegal, but certainly controlled.
I don't mind some common sense controls, as long as it doesn't end up in jail time for anyone. The bill doesn't make the substances legal to sell - that part can be determined later. I think just being able to grow one's own personal supply legally is a fair compromise.
I think just being able to grow one's own personal supply legally is a fair compromise.
And we disagree here, for the reason I mentioned before about how most people don't actually know what a safe dose is, i.e. what dose leads to distortions as opposed to just the benefits.
I think a better compromise than "everyone should be able to have all the psychedelics they want" would be "treat it as a controlled substance and allow for microdosing clinics, or prescribed doses, all of which have supervision by a medical professional".
Requiring a visit to a clinic defeats the purpose, unless that clinic takes steps to create a warm, organic type of environment.
I don't believe other people should be in charge of my medical treatment. The system has been doing an abysmal job with all related topics, what makes you think top-down control is what we need here too?
Society, "the system", has a huge superiority complex. Society is the most entitled thing ever created by humans. "We know what's good for you" - said nobody with a truly kind heart.
I don't believe other people should be in charge of my medical treatment. The system has been doing an abysmal job with all related topics, what makes you think top-down control is what we need here too?
If anything, the opioid crisis shows that there hasn't been enough control on drugs that alter people perception and/or feeling. In countries were more control over the usage of these compounds is mandatory (eg: Europe, where doctors have to justify each dose they prescribe and where stats are made about who prescribes more than usual), usage is possible for the people who actually need them, and no one is talking about widespread abuse. Countries were not enough control was imposed (eg: US, where you can get you hand on some by talking to the right doctor for very minor symptoms), usage exploded.
And although psychedelic tend to be less addictive than opioids, they definitely can be abused in a similar fashion because of the similar "escape on reality" they provide.
Maybe you think you'd be better off if no one was keeping in check with your drug usage. But history shows that society as a whole wouldn't.
And we disagree here, for the reason I mentioned before about how most people don't actually know what a safe dose is,
Then the main issue would just be education (i.e. people learn to start at a low dose and build up), and we all have the internet at our fingertips. Nobody should ever be in jail because they wanted to feel better and never hurt another person. That's cruel and unusual punishment, IMO. Isn't the pursuit of happiness kind of a big deal here?
But I do understand there's people who disagree, and would like to see people like me in jail.
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Have you ever tried these compounds? At lower doses, there's really no significant visuals or hallucinating at all. It's more like it gives you different perspectives, different ways of thinking, strategies for being happier, strategies for dealing with difficult issues in your life.
With the trends of microdosing, I think the lower dosage trips will be much more popular.
With that being said - it's not for everyone, and could be bad for some people. I'm all for the personal responsibility aspect and being able to decide for myself.
I'm all for microdosing, if done in a controlled environment with a (medical) professional present. The problem with it being available for anyone to just "try as they want" is that most people don't know what the proper safe dosage is. I don't think it should be illegal, but certainly controlled.
I don't mind some common sense controls, as long as it doesn't end up in jail time for anyone. The bill doesn't make the substances legal to sell - that part can be determined later. I think just being able to grow one's own personal supply legally is a fair compromise.
And we disagree here, for the reason I mentioned before about how most people don't actually know what a safe dose is, i.e. what dose leads to distortions as opposed to just the benefits.
I think a better compromise than "everyone should be able to have all the psychedelics they want" would be "treat it as a controlled substance and allow for microdosing clinics, or prescribed doses, all of which have supervision by a medical professional".
Requiring a visit to a clinic defeats the purpose, unless that clinic takes steps to create a warm, organic type of environment.
I don't believe other people should be in charge of my medical treatment. The system has been doing an abysmal job with all related topics, what makes you think top-down control is what we need here too?
Society, "the system", has a huge superiority complex. Society is the most entitled thing ever created by humans. "We know what's good for you" - said nobody with a truly kind heart.
If anything, the opioid crisis shows that there hasn't been enough control on drugs that alter people perception and/or feeling. In countries were more control over the usage of these compounds is mandatory (eg: Europe, where doctors have to justify each dose they prescribe and where stats are made about who prescribes more than usual), usage is possible for the people who actually need them, and no one is talking about widespread abuse. Countries were not enough control was imposed (eg: US, where you can get you hand on some by talking to the right doctor for very minor symptoms), usage exploded.
And although psychedelic tend to be less addictive than opioids, they definitely can be abused in a similar fashion because of the similar "escape on reality" they provide.
Maybe you think you'd be better off if no one was keeping in check with your drug usage. But history shows that society as a whole wouldn't.
Then the main issue would just be education (i.e. people learn to start at a low dose and build up), and we all have the internet at our fingertips. Nobody should ever be in jail because they wanted to feel better and never hurt another person. That's cruel and unusual punishment, IMO. Isn't the pursuit of happiness kind of a big deal here?
But I do understand there's people who disagree, and would like to see people like me in jail.