ABSTRACT
Independent clinical trials, free of drug company influence, have repeatedly shown that psychiatric medications are ineffective, unsafe, and harmful to developing brains and bodies; and can cause severe anxiety, disturbed thinking, aggression, metabolic disturbances, suicidal thoughts and behaviors, even death. Human beings have used chemicals to alter their experience of life since the beginning of time. Peyote, magic mushrooms, Scotch, marijuana, cocaine, nicotine, caffeine, heroin, red wine: the list of chemicals used by human beings for the purpose of feeling different is very long. Smoking marijuana to “leave life for a bit” is not a “treatment” of anything medical but rather a characteristic use of a certain chemical substance to alter our experience of reality. Marijuana is a mere chemical-with-effects when we smoke it to alter our experience of reality and it is medicine if we smoke it as treatment for our glaucoma.
