Comments by "iggle" (@iggle6448) on "David Nutt - The Truth About Drugs" video.

  1. I'm one of those 10% or so people without the caffeine receptor thing gene. This means coffee does nothing for me, it's just a nice warm taste. Conversely, alcohol just makes me feel sleepy. Is this why I've never been taken in by the BS?! Seriously though, my takeaway from Prof Nutt's description of the insane 'war on drugs' is that if we had an honest, straightforward and fair society we wouldn't have drug and alcohol problems. As ever, those who have the power cause the problems. Note also that there's a new movement within psychology and psychiatry which sees 'depression' , 'anxiety', 'ptsd' etc as caused by societal dysfunctions, not by the individual's 'chemical imbalances' or 'disordered' reactions. Big pharma read this writing on the wall some while back and have opted out of trying to treat these 'maladies' with their faux scientific concoctions.
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