• space_comrade [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    9 days ago

    Anti drug campaigns that boiled down to just straight making shit up in a bid to scare kids off it are so ridiculous. It just made kids not take any of it seriously even when it was correct and the danger is actually real.

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      9 days ago

      Shrooms specifically our teacher implied were similarly harmful as meth and even fentanyl. Meanwhile shroom research from the past decade has found them one of the safest & least addictive drugs we know of, capable of growing new neural pathways rather than killing them, and potentially being one of the most effective treatments for depression & addiction that we know of

      The amount of urban myths and pseudoscience about psychedelics is wild for the fact they’re practically the only recreational drugs with evidence for long-term psychological benefit