They'll fuck it all up. They should be absolutely prohibited from participating in the Cannabis industry, after their egregious behavior in the tobacco industry. They should have been completely put out of business, except too many people too addicted to just cut off manufacturing.

Today, less than 10% of people reported smoking a cigarette in the previous year. When it's down to less than 5%, the big tobacco companies should be closed. Highly regulated independent tobacco companies can try to survive, but the big companies that hid the dangers of cigarettes, and strongly denied the dangers, while simultaneously making their products more addicting, more addicting quicker, and harder to quit, need to be punished by going out of business. They are one of the most evil industries that have ever existed.

[–] etherphon@piefed.world 2 points 3 hours ago

Yeah for sure, which is why I found the headline so alarming. I'm a big believer in psychedelics and that they can help humanity and that they could heal the separation from nature that a lot of people are feeling, ease the anxiety of life and help people see through to what's important, but this is not the way. Mass production and commodification of things always leads to forgetting the original purpose, strips things away from their ceremonial or therapeutic use and leads to ruin.