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It's widely recognized in the risk reduction community that education, drug testing, and legalization is the best approach.

Interested people are going to use these substances regardless, as the abject failure of the War on Drugs has shown, and in the internet age there's no effective way of keeping people from finding out about these substances. If anything, the information about them is going to get out way more effectively and faster than ever before.

We need to inform users of the risks of these substances along with their benefits, and safe ways to use them. If they then choose to ignore those ways, that's going to be their choice.

Right now there are ayahuasca circles and peyote ceremonies people could join, and underground psychedelic therapists they could go to.

Hopefully, when these substances are legalized there'll be more safe places where people could go and have their experience with trained, caring people.




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