Alcohol legal, psychedelics banned: it's not health, it's control of your mind

Alcohol legal, psychedelics banned: social control?

Is the prohibition of certain substances a matter of public health or a tool to keep us docile? The debate in the Current Affairs subforum raises a troubling thesis: while alcohol, socially accepted, dulls the mind and fosters compliance, psychedelics such as ALUCINÓGENO ILEGAL or psilocybin are persecuted for their ability to dissolve the ego and question the established system. Viewed through this lens, the war on drugs would be nothing more than a strategy to control the collective mind.

Chemical insurrection versus the anxiolytic culture

The premise of the thread is clear: alcohol keeps us in a state of functional lethargy, useful for the productive machine, while psychoactive substances force an introspection that could lead to insurrection. Forum users contrast this with the mass use of legal psychotropic drugs such as Lexatin (a Spanish brand of benzodiazepines), which, far from awakening, seem to anesthetize the population. Some users recall how substances like amphetamines, sold over the counter until the 1980s under names such as Centralimina, provided a level of performance that today is sought in far more sedating drugs.

The legalization business and the risk of neurotoxicity

Not everything is idealism. The critical view also points out that legalization, as seen in the US with marijuana, can lead to the mass marketing of products with sky-high THC levels, turning a potential tool for introspection into mere chemical junk food. Other users warn about the neurotoxicity and tolerance caused by substances such as MDMA, noting that the idealization of these drugs often ignores the real long-term health risks.

Are we facing a health-based prohibition or the powers that be's antiestéticar of a citizenry with expanded consciousness? There is no consensus, but the debate over what lets us question our mortgage and what keeps us tied to it remains open on the forum.

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