Black People Are Taking Shrooms To Heal From Racism | Free Drugs
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In 2019, Oakland effectively voted to decriminalise mushrooms- a progressive move for a city with a long history of punishing its black residents for drug us...

In 2019, Oakland effectively voted to decriminalise mushrooms- a progressive move for a city with a long history of punishing its black residents for drug use. Now some black residents are using them to heal from the racial trauma they deal with in everyday life.

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    • HumanBehaviorByBjork [any, undecided]
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      2 years ago

      yeah, it's driven by capital and it's not being used to push decarceralization. you can also imagine much the same neoliberal motives as the current pharmaceutical industry if, like me, you don't think recreational drugs "expand consciousness" in a meaningful sense without a new social context accompanying them.

    • MitchFucko [any]
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      2 years ago

      possibly to increase general passivity? weed can make it easier to just get home from work and sink into a bowl without ever reflecting on larger mechanisms, rinse and repeat until you die.

      • prolepylene [he/him, comrade/them]
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        2 years ago

        This is the marxist answer. The state exists to reproduce the social hierarchy, and the contradictions caused by capital threaten that. So state actors must work as "crisis managers" to prevent the working class from realizing these contradictions and overthrowing capitalism. One of the easiest ways to do this is distracting the public with cheap comforts, a la "bread and circuses." Psychoactive drugs seem like a great distraction from the miserable alienation of working life.

        • The_Walkening [none/use name]
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          2 years ago

          IIRC before the Temperance movement it was common for employers to provide booze during the workday (as part of the pay) and to pay people in it outright for similar reasons.

      • THC
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        1 year ago

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    • hahafuck [they/them]
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      2 years ago

      Honestly just smoking weed for a few years. Actually just starting to smoke weed, should teach anyone to understand its not great shit for the brain

    • happybadger [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      There isn't NIMBY opposition to psychedelics. A supervised injection site or needle exchange would be great but the issue of where to put it threatens wealthy crackers. With psychedelics there isn't the same use stigma, criminal black market, or medical grey area that they can seize on. When we were passing Prop 122 locally the main opposition was right-wing Christians who oppose everything good. That bill also came from a grassroots groundswell, so the state wasn't pushing psychedelic legalisation on us. The state for its part has been adamant about banning them and research into them for decades, something we chipped away at slowly and with significant structural barriers. We were forcing it on them because the substances work.