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Have you tried cocaine??? It's great!

Exhilaration and lasting euphoria, which in no way differs from the normal euphoria of the healthy person. You perceive an increase of self-control and possess more vitality and capacity for work. In other words, you are simply normal, and it is soon hard to believe you are under the influence of any drug. Long intensive physical work is performed without any fatigue. This result is enjoyed without any of the unpleasant after-effects that follow exhilaration brought about by alcoholic beverages. No craving for the further use of cocaine appears after the first, or even after repeated taking of the drug.

> Exhilaration and lasting euphoria, which...

Context: this is quoting Sigmund Freud, who mistakenly believed the drug to be non-addictive.

Yow, that was so brilliant, it went right over my head. Well played.

> No craving for the further use of cocaine appears after the first, or even after repeated taking of the drug.

lol

I just wish currently illicit/scheduled drugs simply had the same list of disclaimers that FDA-approved drugs had. The side effects aren't different enough to be rebuttals to support their prohibition.

A lot of it is a quality control issue. The cocaine your ophthalmologist might use is just as safe as any other FDA-approved drug, because it is one. On the other hand the stuff you might get third-hand from the cartels was possibly of questionable quality to begin with and has been adulterated several times by various intermediaries.

This is why I prefer legalization instead of just decriminalization

Consumer protection and ability to address the supply chain only comes with legalization

Decriminalization is just 1800s snake oil’s salesmen at the World Fair

All drugs except schedule I are approved for some therapy, so have the same list of disclaimers and side effect notations (with a smaller sample size than normal). Amphetamine, cocaine, and ketamine are schedule II and III; Cannabis is schedule I.

Most schedule 1 substances are much safer than substantially similar alternatives in their pure forms.

The real reason they remain in schedule 1 is because they've been around too long for any major pharma company to have a monopoly on them.

Cannabis isn't even a drug, it's a whole class of plants of a handful of related species. So it's the exception here.

Given your (dangerously wrong) last sentence, I don't know what to make of the rest of this.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25015876

Ah, thank you.

Get help.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25015876

Until it's gone.

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