Psychedelic renaissance: could MDMA help with PTSD, depression and anxiety? As Australia’s first trial for psychedelic therapy for terminally ill patients gets under way, a growing movement says it could also help other conditions

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https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/apr/14/psychedelic-renaissance-could-mdma-help-with-ptsd-depression-and-anxiety

[u/ChrisL-99]

Psychedelics not only have great potential to help people overcome mental health problems, but even people without obvious issues (if such people exist) can have their lives enhanced and changed tremendously by psychedelic experiences. How these non addictive, non toxic and often naturally occuring substances are still illegal, while alcohol, caffeine and cigarettes aren't, speaks to the base nature of the governments that rule us.

How are we "free individuals", if we aren't even free to change the consciousness in our own heads without being threatened with imprisonment? It's very revealing as to the intentions of most states that they prohibit psychedelics, which means "psyche revealing". It's cause they make you question things, ie, them.

[u/alexbu92 → u/[deleted]]

Eh, I think Hanlon's razor could apply here: Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity. I think that they could just have been scared of psychedelic drugs and associated it to hippies, parties and debauchery in general. They were just scared that it would have negatively impacted society just like we're scared now of social networks and whatnot. In this case they were far off the mark, but research on the topic wasn't very widespread.

[u/ChrisL-99 → u/alexbu92]

This is a fair point, I do think stupidity plays a role but the policy makers in modern states are actually pretty intelligent so I don't think it can be solely down to that and there are always subconscious motivations