Opinion | Stop treating prescription meds and illegal drugs differently. By _pem_pem.
— indicating the decision stemmed from a retrograde attitude within sports when it comes to marijuana.
Marijuana has been gaining mainstream support as a medicine for years now, so it seems like an obvious drug to allow at the Olympics. But our cultural shift in how we talk about substances should go further. Americans should be destigmatizingMarijuana is a good example of the false distinction between"medicine" and"drug" that persists in the United States. For decades, despite many people benefitting from its use, the government considered cannabis an illegal drug.
But as weed's leap from illicit substance to medicine shows, the line between a drug and a societally sanctioned medicine is blurry. And the more research that comes out showing other illegal drugs — MDMA, LSD, ketamine — can have beneficial effects, the blurrier the line becomes. By maintaining an arbitrary separation between legal medicine and illegal drugs, we stigmatize the legitimate needs of drug users and the beneficial uses of many drugs, and we potentially ignore that substances deemed"medications" can be harmful in the same way that illegal drugs can be. It makes sense that at the Olympics, where unfair performance enhancement is a concern, the line between medication and illicit substances be very well defined.
Even looking beyond the realm of sports, Adderall provides a good case study for society's untenable distinction between medication and drug. The stimulant, which is a combination of amphetamine and dextroamphetamine, is chemically
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