However, based on what I have observed during the past 4 decades using #synthetic drugs vs. #herbs in treating diseases, we have no clear #scientific #evidence that the toxic effects of drugs are NOT due to these #unknown #brand-#new synthetic chemicals or to those in their #impurities. If we are not even sure about the very nature and/or #purity of the modern medicines/drugs we use, how good is our scientific process of which we are so proud for so many decades?
Some respectable scientists, like #Dr. #Harald H.H.W. #Schmidt, have insisted on looking at the #causes of our #diseases before treating them, and I agree. However, if the diseases are then treated with the same synthetic drugs without knowing exactly what these are, we would be back to square one, because, as I have explained elsewhere, we have NOT effectively dealt with the #side #effects of these drugs and the #new #diseases they cause. Whatever causing them have created and perpetuated the #vicious #cycle – because the more toxic the drugs, the more side effects, and subsequently, more #new #diseases. This process only enriches drug makers by temporarily eliminating some symptoms, but adding more side effects that need other #new #drugs to treat. Consumers are thus stuck with the #pain and #suffering. In the USA, many are financially ruined by these new drugs.
#Politics should not be the first important action we take concerning psychedelics, unless we have a government truly owned by the people (our citizens) who in turn also own the drugs that truly benefit them and not only #drug #makers and #pushers, financially. That way, there would be fewer, if any, of #bureaucratic #government #scientists who are involved in #cronyism of #government #research, preserving the status quo of #incompetence and #profitmaking. I personally experienced this almost 40 years ago, after I won my first #government #contract as a budding #entrepreneur and scientist. It is described in “Chapter 8: David vs. Goliath: #NCI #SBIR #Database Phase II #Contract. What if…?” in #My #Life & #Rollercoaster #Career, published in 2018 (pp. 121-125). I am sure this cronyism is still happening in our healthcare monolith, the National Institutes of Health (#NIH). I suggest the first step is to require all mangers above the departmental level make public their #tax #returns.
Regardless, we should seriously look into 3 major #healthcare #modalities – #nutrition, true #prevention, and #traditional #medicines – that have been eclipsed for far too long by #greed, #ignorance and #arrogance of many scientists and their managers. If actively employed, these might have prevented some of the following #drugs and #diseases – #thalidomide, #antibiotics, #Fentanyl, #heroin, #cocaine, #Xanax, #Ingrezza, #Austedo, #amphetamines, #Crohn disease, #Parkinson’s disease, and #Tardive #Dyskinesia, to name a few.