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Imperial College London Launches a Centre for Psychedelics Research

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Re: Imperial College London Launches a Centre for Psychedelics Research

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It will be nice when the religious old generation with their ideology die off. The repressive outcomes restricting a better timeline from proceeding earlier is so sad to witness. Speaking as an LGBT person who has witnessed suicide among peers and when this treatment likely could help the tolls of abuse in correlation to antiquated beliefs. Thanks to the dying god.

"It will be nice when the religious old generation with their ideology die off. " the new generations are already hard at work building their own oppressive ideologies.

I assume you mean social justice.

You must realize it's a false equivalence: oppression in the name of a more just society is much more worthwhile than oppression in the name of magical imaginary friends. For example, our society oppressing serial killers (for the mission statement of keeping people safe) is much more worthwhile than serial killers oppressing our society (for the mission statement of indulging urges, delusions, etc.) to any reasonable person.

And, of course, I think you have to be very divorced from reality to think that social justice is, has been, or will be as oppressive a force as religion is, has been, or will be to begin with.

Re: Imperial College London Launches a Centre for Psychedelics Research

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

"It will be nice when the religious old generation with their ideology die off. " the new generations are already hard at work building their own oppressive ideologies.

I assume you mean social justice. You must realize it's a false equivalence: oppression in the name of a more just society is much more worthwhile than oppression in the name of magical imaginary friends. For example, our society oppressing serial killers (for the mission statement of keeping people safe) is much more worthwhile than serial killers oppressing our society (for the mission statement of indulging urges,…

"oppression in the name of a more just society"

Sounds an awful lot like the worst parts of the 20th century.

Re: Imperial College London Launches a Centre for Psychedelics Research

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post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"It will be nice when the religious old generation with their ideology die off. " the new generations are already hard at work building their own oppressive ideologies.

I assume you mean social justice. You must realize it's a false equivalence: oppression in the name of a more just society is much more worthwhile than oppression in the name of magical imaginary friends. For example, our society oppressing serial killers (for the mission statement of keeping people safe) is much more worthwhile than serial killers oppressing our society (for the mission statement of indulging urges,…

> oppression in the name of a more just society is much more worthwhile than oppression in the name of magical imaginary friends...

The thought behind this statement has been used historically to do some pretty bad stuff that resulted in a lot of pain and suffering...be careful that you don't build up a power structure that "works" now when you and people who think like you are in power but can be used to utterly rob the people of their freedom and liberty...its very sad to see this happening again

Re: Imperial College London Launches a Centre for Psychedelics Research

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post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"It will be nice when the religious old generation with their ideology die off. " the new generations are already hard at work building their own oppressive ideologies.

I assume you mean social justice. You must realize it's a false equivalence: oppression in the name of a more just society is much more worthwhile than oppression in the name of magical imaginary friends. For example, our society oppressing serial killers (for the mission statement of keeping people safe) is much more worthwhile than serial killers oppressing our society (for the mission statement of indulging urges,…

"oppression in the name of a more just society"

That's how a lot of the worst dictatorships started.

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post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I assume you mean social justice. You must realize it's a false equivalence: oppression in the name of a more just society is much more worthwhile than oppression in the name of magical imaginary friends. For example, our society oppressing serial killers (for the mission statement of keeping people safe) is much more worthwhile than serial killers oppressing our society (for the mission statement of indulging urges,…

"oppression in the name of a more just society" That's how a lot of the worst dictatorships started.

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I had heard of his story in pop culture references (the van with enough acid to dose a major city) before, but did not know as much about him till I saw your comment and perused his Wikipedia page. This passage was particularly interesting to me: > Pickard was the first American researcher to predict an epidemic of fentanyl and carfentanyl. At Harvard, he was appointed as a research associate in neurobiology at Harva…

lsd is neither addictive nor toxic

addictive is quite a loose term, things like weed and acid may not cause a chemical addiction - but they are extremely habit forming.

Re: Imperial College London Launches a Centre for Psychedelics Research

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post #14

From a comment by /u/oredna in /r/Psychonaut yesterday[0]: > Worth noting that the actual first is the Center for Psychedelic Studies at the University of Toronto[1]. We were recently featured in a National Post piece[2]. We've been in touch with the author to inform them that it's inaccurate to call ICL's the first given that we already exist. > That said, this is great news! More psychedelic research, and we're hop…

Ok, s/world's first/a/. Thanks!

Re: Imperial College London Launches a Centre for Psychedelics Research

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Judging from the success with clinical research into marijuana, if this is successful we can look forward to a future in which family members of the UK government can sell clinical psychedelics all over the world while still insisting at home that it has no medical benefit and is only used by criminals.

> criminals

I've never accepted some behaviour to be criminal without a victim. Pedantic gov'tal meddling, waste of resources at best, a way to lock up lefty/hippy/non-whites at worst.

Passing laws that make victimless behaviour illegal should be criminal. Let's make that a constitutional law...

Re: Imperial College London Launches a Centre for Psychedelics Research

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post #29

Judging from the success with clinical research into marijuana, if this is successful we can look forward to a future in which family members of the UK government can sell clinical psychedelics all over the world while still insisting at home that it has no medical benefit and is only used by criminals.

> criminals I've never accepted some behaviour to be criminal without a victim. Pedantic gov'tal meddling, waste of resources at best, a way to lock up lefty/hippy/non-whites at worst. Passing laws that make victimless behaviour illegal should be criminal. Let's make that a constitutional law...

>Passing laws that make victimless behaviour illegal should be criminal. Let's make that a constitutional law...

I'm for metalaws so long as the punishment isn't just some mild sanction. I have always been a fan of heavy metalaws.

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