[arcticbull]

PCP was a general anesthetic, cocaine is still a local anesthetic used humorously enough for rhinoplasty [1] (and eye surgery if I’m not mistaken) and Xanax is an antidepressant so by that strict measure there’s some logic.

With that in mind it’s a completely asinine system and should be thrown out. It’s such an utter waste of time when Portugal’s policy of decriminalizing everything a decade and a half ago showed massive public benefit and no increase in drug use. [2]

Nothing about the war on drugs is “fact based.” This whole conversation is about re-shuffling the deck chairs when we should be getting off the Titanic.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/9935273/

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/dec/05/portugals-radic...

[0x8BADF00D]

Xanax is not an antidepressant, it is a sedative-hypnotic.

[loeg]

Ostensibly, it's foremost an anxiolytic.