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Considering there's pretty compelling research that ketamine can help people that suffer from depression and MDMA in conjunction with therapy helps those with PTSD, I really think we should take a very hard look at what drugs should be illegal and why. I'm honestly not convinced there's a good reason most of the schedule 1 drugs should be illegal.

They all seem to have lots of therapeutic uses. Throwing that away seems like a huge waste.

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I think that is one, of many, exact reasons they are illegal. The government will do anything to protect big pharma and these substances are not patentable. Nor do they need to be taken often for beneficial effects. That scares the living shit out of pharma companies that sell a lot of garbage like anti depressants that aren't even shown to be effective and often lead to worse outcomes like suicide. I'm surprised about what the guy in the article is doing and conflicted on whether I support it or not. Nature already provides this medicine in an almost perfect form. Extraction is trivial. I see no need for synthesis or especially for patenting it to the detriment of the natural mushrooms.

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