[sneak]

A little reminder that the (legal) tobacco causes 7x more preventable deaths every day/week/month in the USA than the entirety of the opiate epidemic.

The policies that govern substances in the US are not based whatsoever on health outcomes, only money and racism.

That may change, but thinking of it as a one-dimensional pendulum is probably the wrong model for reasoning about it.

Effective treatments for difficult diseases always seem too good to be true: take paracetamol for an example.