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[quote=Anonymous]Another, converse take is that psychedelics and notably mushrooms I’ve been shown in NIH studies and other peer reviewed medical studies to have extremely beneficial effects on PTSD and depression. Currently, money is being spent to jail people for ingesting a plant. Mushrooms have no addictive qualities to them. We should not be wasting tax dollars on arresting and shutting away employable people in violent institutions for what is essentially effectively a victimless crime. A drug war has been waged for nearly 100 years to no effect, other than to break up families and waste billions and billions of dollars. If you look to Portugal, which has decriminalized all drugs, and put the emphasis on treatment of addiction rather than on jail time, the statistics show much more beneficial outcomes. That said, on a scale of harm established by the British NHS, psychedelics and marijuana have the lowest physical harm rate of any illegal substances. Alcohol is at the top, followed by heroin. Millions of people die by alcohol abuse and drug overdoses. You can’t Od and die with marijuana or mushrooms. So, it’s a choice to grow up, try a new tactics and accept that people should be able to decide what to put in their bodies.[/quote]

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