Anonymous #1 3w

not that i trust this administration to do literally anything the right way, tbc 💀 i just don’t think this is automatically a bad precedent

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Anonymous #1 3w

Oh yeah absolutely. There are completely real uses for this stuff. BUT- I wouldn’t trust this administration with anything at this point. Literally earlier they were campaigning to get SSRIs less accessible and suggested people on them got “send to a farm to detox” and now we’re just backtracking and looking into “researching” psychedelics more. DAWG. My autistic special interest has been MK-Ultra (don’t ask- I’m one of those weird autistics)- and this has the scent of it written all over it. 😭

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Anonymous OP 3w

yeahhh that’s true, i hear you. consciously i have less-than-zero faith in the government at this point (especially this Worst Case Scenario administration), i just am so hellbent on substance decriminalization that my kneejerk reaction to seeing this headline was “possible silver linings to come? hopefully?” but realistically, “decriminalization” and “Trump regime tinkering with laws concerning psychiatry” are two extremely different things

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Anonymous OP 3w

also 🤝🤝🤝 re: MKUltra as special interest!!! i’m both autistic and mildly psychotic so it feels almost obligatory that i’d end up obsessing over that stuff lol

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Anonymous #1 3w

I agree that yes, we should research this stuff. I’m a big advocate that things should be constantly researched, even if we had reached a conclusion about them in the past. As technology advances, are understanding does too, and I think it’s important to research things even if they are taboo. Such as psychedelic drugs, opioids and stuff. They have their uses, and historically better research and more development has lead to safer outcomes when using them.

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Anonymous OP 3w

Even with things as controversial as nuclear medicine (Like “radium water”) which was a health craze in the 1930s, people drank irradiated water on purpose because they thought it had health benefits. Was it a good thing to drink irradiated water? NO! But did further research lead to the development of chemotherapy! Which has saved countless lives!

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Anonymous OP 3w

My point to say, everything is scary and bad if you don’t know enough about it, and use it incorrectly. And that I truly belive that a lot of things that have been demonized these days (for example, psychedelic drugs) have genuine uses that have not been researched enough.

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Anonymous OP 3w

BUT- and I cannot stress this enough. The government has NEVER ever ever started researching taboo things out of the blue for good reasons. Yes, maybe they lead to good things (ie, nuclear reactors) but 9 times out of 10, the reason they were researched in the first place was NOT out of pure and good intention, and marginalized and vulnerable communities paid the price. The government is not all bad. And great things COULD come of this. But I am very very very wary of how this will turn out.

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