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[–] treefrog@lemm.ee 28 points 5 months ago (15 children)

Bought is it.

Mental health meds are a huge industry. MDMA has the potential to help cure what other medication can only treat.

[–] gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (5 children)

Well, I guess it's not only that. Psychedelic drugs can really fuck you up, if you aren't prepared. People talk about set and setting a lot.

I suspect that these drugs sure help a lot of people, but can also fuck a lot of people up really badly. It's like, people who don't go along well with these substances, avoid them instinctively.

Now, if someone would prescribe them, I'm pretty sure that a lot of people who are simply not prepared for it mentally (instead blindly trust the medics), would take them and get hurt pretty badly because of that.

[–] jorp@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

These drugs are typically used for individual and group therapy sessions and not given as prescriptions to take at home. They're basically just there to augment therapy sessions.

I do think they should be legalized and allowed for recreational use as well but your concerns aren't really justified if you look at what existing therapeutic applications are like and what companies in the psychedelic space are trying to do right now.

Yeah, I guess you have a point.

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