The world’s No. 1 bro-caster, who has expressed some buyer’s remorse over his endorsement of Trump, stood directly behind the president, who was seated at the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office signing an executive order to ease restrictions on medical research and treatments using psychedelic drugs.
The rare W from 47
Please help me understand how this is remotely a W. They are never going to willingly give people good things that make life better.
It is a W, it’d be more of a W if they hadn’t completely fucked grants and medical research funding. The truth is that it’s insane what the medical community has to do to research the medical viability of something that was ruled to have no medical viability, despite at the time it was scheduled showing promise and continuing to show promise outside of the states and in the medical studies that have bent over backwards to follow the rules.
Psychedelics were once viewed as one of the most promising breakthroughs in mental health treatment and because of Nixon and Regan and their racist war on drugs, that legacy has been kicked down the road.
I’ll concede that it’s a minor w, in a sea of shit, piss, and blood. But I’m gonna count my blessings.
It’s too bad this maladministration is cutting scientific research funding so deeply, so not sure how much any research is going to happen, including this, but…I remain hopeful, I guess.
How is it not?
This isn’t making it legal at all. This is reducing restrictions on research.
deleted by creator
Even under the absolutely fucking absurd peak of the “War on Drugs”, I remember applying to a marijuana research study as a test subject. I didn’t get in - they had a battery of questions up front and I assume something I answered there resulted in rejection, but I knew another student that did it.
Given it was Schedule 1, I’m sure there was not nearly enough, but I guess it still did happen.
I asked you, after you stated it’s “a W,” to help me understand your thinking. I’ve already given reasons why I think this is neutral at best.
Why do you consider this to be a good thing, after what you’ve seen them do to “science” and “health?”
Yes, I did read your comment before replying to it. You explained nothing. I don’t know how to explain how legalization of readily available an inexpensive methods that have been proven to treat mental illnesses for decades being even considered for legalization is obviously a W.
Can you help me understand how you got to “legalization?”
It’s in the article:
I’m not sure what other way you could interpret that.
Oh ok well if it’s in the article, that must mean MAGA will just do a great job
Thanks for pointing that out
Of course it doesn’t mean that, that’s why I didn’t say that.
Come now, it’s better. Just as breakbone fever is better than malaria. Our country has been permanently seized by gangsters. And your countries are next. Which is not better. We are doomed, doomed I tell you. Unless we organize obviously.