[varyouga]

Opium, coca and mushrooms are all medicinal and beneficial when used responsibly. Even poison ivy, poison oak and stinging nettle have medicinal value. God gave us all these plants to use as tools, not imprison people who touch them.

Cannabis is a highly medicinal plant with more active compounds than any other. Our body uses internal cannabinoids for practically every function and the cannabis plant is very symbiotic with mammals and birds.

Banning the medical research of cannabis was a crime against humanity. Of course it all could have been the intent of the opium industry since dozens of cannabis medications touted as opium alternatives were patented just 1 year before hemp prohibition.

[ifinnegan]

You are repeating hippie New Left propaganda from the 60’s and 70’s.

You probably don’t even know it.

And importantly, it is not true.

[steve86]

Opium, coca and mushrooms are all medicinal and beneficial when used responsibly.

I don't deny that (but the argument is pretty variable when applied to various species of mushrooms). The problem is always abuse, and dependency or even addiction in the case of the first two.