Itâs always been these lawless cretins. Who else could?! Fun facts: 1) FBI informant Peter Thiel (who is never described as such) is why & howTrump decriminalized ketamine, MDMA,đetc. 2) Thielâs 1st job after law school was working for Bush 1âs Bill Bennett, literally creating the war on drugs.
Even if Iâm mostly pro-legalization, Iâd have obviously chosen a different version of reality than this one & obvi Iâm not pro corruptionâbut is there really anyone who thinks our drug policy on psychedelics wouldâve changed so drastically with any President (or the GOP or Dems) other than Trump?
Relatedly & again, Iâd obvi not choose this version of reality nor discount the depth & breadth of the harmâbut this is the 1st time in my lifetime that I think itâs possible & even probable that our appalling immigration policy will change during my lifetime. Unless of course none of us survive.
Very âonly Nixon could go to Chinaâ vibes
Itâs a great analogy because folks really bought that narrative (fucking Kissinger!). But, in hindsite, it was inevitable? And tho it was then viewed as politically risky & failure was possible, the potential upside was obvious & enormous. & in contrast, it was not thoughtless & purely corrupt?
Obvi I agree âI alone can fix thisâ is nonsense but, for better & worse, aside from this mobster felon potus (known for hating drugs but not as much as he loves corruption) I canât imagine any other US POTUS wouldâve unilaterally de facto decriminalized mdma, ketamine & đduring my lifetime or ever.
To be clear: this is not a defense or a justification or something that I want to think, let alone defend. But I am beyond dubious it wouldâve or couldâve changed any other wayâŚ.itâs still hard for me to believe it has!
wait, there was federal action taken on decriminalizing ketamine and mdma?? i completely missed that.
Youâve not seen all the psychedelic startups? Itâs more de facto than de jureâso venture capitalists & drug cos can profiteer in but BIPOC folks are still incarcerated? More here: Trump Orders âa Lotâ of Ketamine for VA www.theatlantic.com/health/archi... www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/02...
oh, yes, of course. i thought this meant there had been a rescheduling action or executive order of some sort issued that i missed. makes sense now.
Seems more like itâs now that there are no laws? but itâs also kind of a hodgepodge of EOs, rule changes & selective enforcement of laws? Like the FDA approval + the EO about veteran mental health for Ketamine. And then Biden didnât manage to get the toothpaste back in the tube & here we are?
ugh. we always knew bobby would fuck up everything he touched but i had a sliver of hope that maybe after having one too many teenage blood bags one evening heâd recklessly unschedule all the psychedelics rendering his existence slightly less than a complete blight on humanity but no such luck.