Crazy right? Weed I’ve plenty of experience with. Never been interested in cocaine or meth. They really don’t belong in the same group at all.
Ketamine though… I’d be interested to test. I’ve read repeatedly about is helpfulness with depression.
I’m not referring to legality, but rather the impact it has on one’s life. There wasn’t any nuance to the discussion; it simply was “don’t do these substances”. This does not prepare one for real life encounters with drugs.
DARE is/was an old program and it ‘lumps in’ weed with heroin because at the Federal level it’s still in the same schedule 1 category.
Schedule I drugs, substances, or chemicals are defined as drugs with no currently accepted medical use and a high potential for abuse.
Source DEA.gov
However! There is light at the end of the tunnel: DEA Considers Rescheduling Cannabis: What This Means For U.S. And Global Policy
Cocaine and meth are schedule 2 and ketamine is schedule 3, but when I went through DARE they still got lumped in with all the schedule 1 drugs.
Crazy right? Weed I’ve plenty of experience with. Never been interested in cocaine or meth. They really don’t belong in the same group at all. Ketamine though… I’d be interested to test. I’ve read repeatedly about is helpfulness with depression.
Don’t just do k by yourself and think you’re going to do something about depression.
I’m not referring to legality, but rather the impact it has on one’s life. There wasn’t any nuance to the discussion; it simply was “don’t do these substances”. This does not prepare one for real life encounters with drugs.
I mean, I’m not disagreeing with you… 😗
I just wanted to clarify. DARE lumped them all together because it’s an abstinence model, not because of the DEA schedules.