Comments on: Journalist Amber Lyon: The War on Drugs is a Human Rights Crisis http://mediaroots.org/journalist-amber-lyon-the-war-on-psychedelics-is-a-human-rights-crisis/ Tue, 04 Dec 2018 16:55:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.2 By: The Otter http://mediaroots.org/journalist-amber-lyon-the-war-on-psychedelics-is-a-human-rights-crisis/comment-page-1/#comment-1053 Mon, 30 Jun 2014 21:40:15 +0000 http://www.mediaroots.org/?p=6159#comment-1053 Photo is a little heavy on the airbrush. Geeeez. Her ring isn’t square on her finger…tsk tsk. I should call myself ‘The Critic’ rather than ‘The Otter’.

]]> By: jazzwitherspoon http://mediaroots.org/journalist-amber-lyon-the-war-on-psychedelics-is-a-human-rights-crisis/comment-page-1/#comment-1051 Mon, 30 Jun 2014 05:37:12 +0000 http://www.mediaroots.org/?p=6159#comment-1051 Tobacco, not nicotine.

http://circ.ahajournals.org/content/129/1/28.long

I absolutely adore the fact that you are willing to put yourself out there for a class of medicine that is ridiculously demonized.
However, when you are doing such a good job of safely promoting psychedelics, don’t make nicotine out to be the bad guy when it’s all the other junk (smoking or dipping) that comes along with it that is deadly. Nicotine has health benefits that, last I checked, outweigh the risks of nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) or vaping. Am I going to recommend someone start using nicotine just for the hell of it? Absolutely not. Am I going to tell people trying to quit smoking to use NRT or bupropion as a healthier intervention? Hell yes.

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