>we need to quit exaggerating their positive effects and downplaying their negatives.
Who is 'we'? Sure, the media exaggerates the benefits of psychedelics. You can also find plenty of stories exaggerating the benefits of electric cars, veganism, meditation, antioxidants, or martial arts, among other things.
The media loves a narrative with a miracle -- how is that the "surprising part"?
>the early days of opioids
The early days of opioids were in the nineteenth century. I certainly don't recall being bombarded with stories about them. The post-mortem of the opioid painkiller crisis (the "codones") focused on deceitful marketing from pharmaceutical companies aimed at physicians, not pop-psych puff pieces for a lay audience. There is no shortage of exaggeration in the cornucopia of cannabis clickbait, but the situation is not comparable.
Inaccuracy in pop-sci is lamentable, but not historic, and usually the only thing that comes of it are bins of discarded magazines.
Who is 'we'? Sure, the media exaggerates the benefits of psychedelics. You can also find plenty of stories exaggerating the benefits of electric cars, veganism, meditation, antioxidants, or martial arts, among other things.
The media loves a narrative with a miracle -- how is that the "surprising part"?
>the early days of opioids
The early days of opioids were in the nineteenth century. I certainly don't recall being bombarded with stories about them. The post-mortem of the opioid painkiller crisis (the "codones") focused on deceitful marketing from pharmaceutical companies aimed at physicians, not pop-psych puff pieces for a lay audience. There is no shortage of exaggeration in the cornucopia of cannabis clickbait, but the situation is not comparable.
Inaccuracy in pop-sci is lamentable, but not historic, and usually the only thing that comes of it are bins of discarded magazines.
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