Submitted 22 hours ago by unemployedclaquer@sopuli.xyz to showerthoughts@lemmy.world
kooky shitheads in the FDA want to fuck with proven medicine. least they could do is make available high quality psychedelics.
Actually in the Netherlands there is a program is called “Drugs Information and Monitoring System” (DIMS). You can take your illegal drugs there without facing any type of punishment. They’ll test your drugs (usually) for free just to see if they contain what you’d expect. It’s a harm-reduction project.
Oregon voters passed a referendum few years ago supposedly along the same lines and now they’re all mad. i don’t know the details but my best guess is bad law and bad implementation.
That was just decriminalization and the state legislature never followed through with anything on their end, let things get worse, and then acted like saviors by overturning the law, funneling all that funding toward police. It’s pure bullshit.
Same in Switzerland,btw. And going on for a long time.
Very effective - there is ample evidence that it reduces both the amount of overdose as well as the general rate of addiction
Came here just to say this! At nearly every music event and most big cities you just have a place where you can go, no judgment, to have your stuff tested, it’s the best!
My psychiatrist is a drug dealer and doesn’t even know it.
my psych can’t find anything that affects me up or down. it’s rough when your only diagnosis is crippling depression.
Same here. I tried a lot of medications from various psychiatrists over the years. Being prescribed medical cannabis and cbd from a specialist was the only thing that really worked for me
Mine actually knows, and I reference her as such. My appointments on my phone just says “get drugs from drug dealer”.
It’s why I don’t do street drugs anymore. Fentanyl is everywhere and it only takes a tiny amount to kill you.
I dont get this, how are the dealers supposed to sell them if they get their customers killed?
incompetence and no ethics can still make money
agreed, i don’t touch it. with quality control, I still wouldn’t. but it would change things, hopefully positively. it’s not like I can’t just go and get high, regardless of legality.
There is, sometimes: energycontrol-international.org/what-is-energy-co… Spain based but apparently there are other similar efforts in the EU. You can find them in some venues and events, and they’ll test whatever you are going to put into your system, no questions asked.
I don’t know if people care about The Wire and Hamsterdam anymore, but I liked that perspective. They didn’t sugercoat the costs of addiction.
make available high quality psychedelics
You can grow those at home
i don’t have a bathtub for making gin, much less sythnesizing unwise experiments. could deffo do some weirdness with fishtanks and fungi. though i’m still traumatized from clumsily breaking my 20-gallon tank when I was 13. i’ve irrationally hated pet stores ever since.
That’s why some places have weed centers. Dunno if it extends to shoot ups.
it’s a huge, huge divide between weed and anything delivered by needle. needles are scary for good reasons. probably a lot of changes needed but education is the first and foremost. I’m not saying kids should read William Burroughs, they really shouldn’t, but that was part of it for me. I didn’t want to be like that guy.
Yup. For those interested, google ‘supervised injection sites’ or ‘safe consumption centers’
Exactly. But they probably have a lot of prisoners that are in prison on petty drug charges that if they were released because they decriminalized drugs, would cause them to have their findings cut. That is the only reason why they are stuck on a war on drugs that has neve worked, will never worked, and opened to door to a whole load of other chemicals that are much more dangerous because people wanted to get around the legality of drug use.
floo@retrolemmy.com 21 hours ago
This is one of the greatest things about the legalization of weed. Now, it’s all great. And cheap!
unemployedclaquer@sopuli.xyz 21 hours ago
gone are the days of the bags of mystery buds, if you can afford it. also, don’t have to hang out with your dealer. don’t have to scold her about doing transactions over text. don’t have to change your number so she can’t find you.
Flemmy@lemm.ee 11 hours ago
If only the cholesterol brains in the state house understand the fentanyl/tranq/pcp problem comes from a lack of available milder drugs where cannabis shines like a green golden pointy beacon.
Heck even the pharmacies and dentists sell overpriced and overpowered painkillers. I pulled a wisdom tooth without it’s no biggie. A root canal is way worse than pulling and tugging.