The Trip Treatment

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/02/09/trip-treatment

by juanplusjuan • 11 years ago

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bdm• 11 years ago

It's brilliant. I wonder why people have a knee-jerk reaction to drugs as being "bad". Research and writing like this are quite promising.

Only 10 percent of drug users have a problem with their substance. Some 90 percent of people who use a drug—the overwhelming majority—are not harmed by it. This figure comes not from a pro-legalization group, but from the United Nations Office on Drug Control, the global coordinator of the drug war. Even William Bennett, the most aggressive drug czar in U.S. history, admits: “Non-addicted users still comprise the vast bulk of our drug-involved population.” - Why Animals Eat Psychoactive Drugs [http://goo.gl/7vB8Eu]

Drugs not only can be used responsibly, but they should be. We are needlessly Luddite about this type of stuff. I think within the next decade we'll see a paradigm shift towards a much wider societal acceptance of "brain drugs."

The Trip Treatment

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