• dolle@feddit.dk
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    19 hours ago

    Yes, but it shouldn’t be legalized for the wrong reasons. We used to justify legalization using arguments about personal freedom for recreational use and pushing for more rigorous research into the therapeutic use cases. Now its popularity in the population is just used to push a pseudo-scientific and anti-science agenda.

    • Kalcifer@sh.itjust.works
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      1 hour ago

      Yes, but it shouldn’t be legalized for the wrong reasons.

      This is kind of an interesting thought, imo. If one agrees with the resultant policy, does the rationale used to get there matter? Perhaps it does in principle, but I wonder if it matters in practice. The end result is the same.

      • ObliviousEnlightenment@lemmy.world
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        1 hour ago

        It does not matter morally, but does rhetorically and politically. The result of neglecting the latter is your rhetoric can be abused, see OP

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        15 minutes ago

        I think the implications here is that the reasons it gets legalized can have an impact on the specifics of the policy. Which would mean that they wouldn’t agree with the policy beyond the legalization itself.

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          3 minutes ago

          I think the implications here is that the reasons it gets legalized can have an impact on the specifics of the policy.

          Could you elaborate on what you mean?

    • fuck_u_spez_in_particular@lemmy.world
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      11 hours ago

      I mean there’s already quite some research with psychedelics showing positive results. Expecting RFK to act on facts and science is wishful thinking. We can just be thankful that his twisted mind aligns with science at least in this position.