HHS Calls for Moving Marijuana to Lower-Risk US Drug Category • Hacker News Board

Re: HHS Calls for Moving Marijuana to Lower-Risk US Drug Category

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Post by carlmr » Thu, Aug 31, 2023, 4:09 PM UTC

xyzwave wrote: post #17

lockhouse wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Permanent psychosis or murdering your friends and family because you hallucinated them into a harmful monster? https://www.vice.com/en/article/7k9pmz/acid-lsd-fuelled-murd...

You’re cherry-picking [0] (using Vice to boot). Not to mention people do that without drugs. How about the thousands who don’t commit violent crimes as a result of taking these drugs [1]? Sorta like the clothesline paradox [2]. 0. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherry_picking#:~:text=Cherr... . 1. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-021-01336-3 2. https://www.oreilly.com/radar/the-clothesline-paradox-and-th...

Adding to that, alcohol is worse in these categories.

Re: HHS Calls for Moving Marijuana to Lower-Risk US Drug Category

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Post by 3pac » Thu, Aug 31, 2023, 8:49 PM UTC

You can't be sure what's in it these days, especially if it looks super professionally packaged.

Re: HHS Calls for Moving Marijuana to Lower-Risk US Drug Category

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Post by penjelly » Fri, Sep 01, 2023, 4:50 PM UTC

3pac wrote: post #22

You can't be sure what's in it these days, especially if it looks super professionally packaged.

thats unrelated to its classification

Re: HHS Calls for Moving Marijuana to Lower-Risk US Drug Category

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Post by penjelly » Fri, Sep 01, 2023, 4:57 PM UTC

Tostino wrote: post #14

_2z1p wrote: post #12

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Unpopular opinion around here, but strong hallucinogenic drugs can have negative externalities.

Anything worse than alcohol?

one often discussed topic of psychedelics is "ego shedding/death" usually seen as a positive thing, which it can be. But it can certainly misalign you for life as you currently know it. So, you may end up "in a worse situation" if your life was going well, you experience "ego shedding" after which you struggle to return to "normal life". This concept is terrifying for a lot of people, and rightly so i think

Re: HHS Calls for Moving Marijuana to Lower-Risk US Drug Category

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Post by grglburgp » Sat, Sep 02, 2023, 7:31 AM UTC

_2z1p wrote: post #12

jondwillis wrote: post #5

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Freedom to do what you want as long as it doesn’t have negative externalities?

Unpopular opinion around here, but strong hallucinogenic drugs can have negative externalities.

Same as computers, cars, fossil fuels, social media, airplanes, plastic, guns, politics, capitalism, sunlight…

Did you hear about life itself? Leading cause of death.