Okay, to be clear, I’m not actually saying you should do drugs. I just found this picture funny and kind of insightful. I intended the title not to be a command, but as an 'if this then that" observation.
Okay, to be clear, I’m not actually saying you should do drugs. I just found this picture funny and kind of insightful. I intended the title not to be a command, but as an 'if this then that" observation.
Recreational drugs would be safe in a classless society since it wouldn’t be weaponized by the ruling class to submit the other mentally. But right now, given the history of capitalist use of drugs to destroy resistance, it is imperative to not let comrades getting addicted.
However keep in mind that treatment of addiction must be compassionate and humane. Shock therapy is a capitalist myth in economics as well as in mental health. Addiction is a public health concern and addicts are victims of capitalism.
Interestingly enough the use of psychedelic mushrooms has been shown to combat addictions to other substances. I was fighting addiction to some prescription sleeping meds for many years until I started micro dosing magic mushrooms. Now I only tend to take them (the mushrooms) when my anxiety is really kicking up due to work and I start having restless nights. Even then it’s usually just one micro dose capsule a week. I’m off those meds completely.
It’s also what really showed me how fucked medicine is under capitalism. How we are nothing more than bag of money to get hooked for life on their product. They don’t want to cure your anxiety, your depression. They want you to rely on some drug for the rest of your life regardless of if it’s really helping you.
This right here. Big pharma got psychedelics criminalized because they’re extremely effective in 1 dose. They wanted drugs that you need to take every day for months or years, so they took what they learned from LSD and Psilocybin to create things like Prozac.