Compass Pathways has set itself up to be the first legal provider of psilocybin

Post by perfmode » Fri, Jan 04, 2019, 4:44 PM UTC

elcomet wrote: post #21

jessaustin wrote: post #3

This is a natural product. One can grow it in the basement of one's home. One can gather it where it grows wild. (Ask me how I know!) No user of this product has ever harmed anyone else as a result of using it. Any restrictions at all on this product could only ever be tyrannical. Let's not abide tyranny, ok?

> No user of this product has ever harmed anyone else as a result of using it. I definitely don't agree with this. You are harming your family and friends by harming yourself. People can care about you.

Post by nopacience » Fri, Jan 04, 2019, 4:45 PM UTC

atomical wrote: post #16

jessaustin wrote: post #3

This is a natural product. One can grow it in the basement of one's home. One can gather it where it grows wild. (Ask me how I know!) No user of this product has ever harmed anyone else as a result of using it. Any restrictions at all on this product could only ever be tyrannical. Let's not abide tyranny, ok?

The blind spot here is that no one really understands how it works or the long term implications. It may have a use for patients with treatment resistant medical conditions where the alternatives have failed or side-effects are intolerable. Why should healthy adults take this substance? Many of the so-called experts interviewed in Michel Pollan's new book took psilocybin and believed the experience revealed the inner…

Post by [deleted] » Fri, Jan 04, 2019, 4:47 PM UTC

Post by Retra » Fri, Jan 04, 2019, 4:49 PM UTC

nopacience wrote: post #24

atomical wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The blind spot here is that no one really understands how it works or the long term implications. It may have a use for patients with treatment resistant medical conditions where the alternatives have failed or side-effects are intolerable. Why should healthy adults take this substance? Many of the so-called experts interviewed in Michel Pollan's new book took psilocybin and believed the experience revealed the inner…

long term implications of a living human being is death. the live human being will create pollution, will kill a couple of ants, might become a murder, a liar. Life is risky.

Post by [deleted] » Fri, Jan 04, 2019, 4:55 PM UTC

Retra wrote: post #28

nopacience wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

long term implications of a living human being is death. the live human being will create pollution, will kill a couple of ants, might become a murder, a liar. Life is risky.

It's unnecessarily more risky when you do stupid things. You can't use a little risk to justify arbitrarily more risk, you have to make an argument based on the value produced.