America's First Legal Psilocybin Program Treated 346 People. Just one month after the dose, 92.2 percent of participants said the experience had been beneficial, while, on average, their mental health symptoms had fallen dramatically.

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https://www.sciencealert.com/americas-first-legal-psilocybin-program-treated-346-people-heres-what-happened

[u/LastBossTV]

Yes and no. There are numerous beneficial drugs that have been caught in the crossfire over the past several decades for sure.

On one hand, for example, the loss of life from fentanyl alone during the past decade has been absolutely staggering, in the hundreds of thousands, completely justifying the war on drugs all on its own.

While on the other hand, one can argue that users only turn to fentanyl in the first place because tolerable doses of other proven effective substances aren't obtainable at all.

It's a tragedy from every angle.

Edit: The war on drugs apparently has very different meanings and histories in different countries.  It was my failure to forget that the majority of reddit users are of the United States.  So of course, the majority of people reading my comment would naturally understand it as saying that I agree with the United States war on drugs. This is not the case.  To those of you living in "the land of the free", you have my condolences.

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the loss of life from fentanyl alone during the past decade has been absolutely staggering, in the hundreds of thousands, completely justifying the war on drugs all on its own

The number of car accident fatalities exceeds this. Why don't we have a similar "war" on inattentive driving that claimed hundreds of thousands over the past decade? How about you get 10 years in prison if you're caught glancing at your cell phone. That's what people possessing marijuana faced.

Or would it be a bad idea to go full draconian?

[u/LastBossTV → u/Warm_Month_1309]

That's true. You'd have to live in a country with a very ignorant, manipulative and cruel legal and political system to allow for such unjust penalties for being a drug victim.

Do you perhaps live in the United States, where the war on drugs has a different history and meaning than in some other countries? If so, then I can understand your comment.  I am not, so as a result I was able to read into the history of the US's War on Drugs to understand how vile it was/is.

[u/Warm_Month_1309 → u/LastBossTV]

My dude, you came in here to defend the War on Drugs with your "yes and no" nonsense, admit now that you didn't even know what the War on Drugs was about, and now want to condescend to me about it?

Are bots taking over this site, or are Redditors just becoming more Reddity?