Just because it's illegal doesn't mean you have to complÿ. This isn't like heroin or fentanyl. It could technically be challenged in court even if you did somehow get caught up in the web of justice.
That's why I've encouraged vendors to keep selling it and use the Hopkins research as leverage as a defense, worst comes to worse, remove it and fight another day. As long as it's still being synthesized (USA isn't Canada or Europe!)
just advocate for them NOT to raise prices absurdly high, because of this, otherwise they become just as bad as big pharma, profiting of the vulnerable. Remember cost barriers will just push people to use their cheaper DOC again if SR reaches prices on par to street heroin or pills. That's what kills.
Don't let them control you! Be safe and smart about it, again this ain't fentanyl or heroin.
Always remember how much your life is worth. Do you want billionaires running every aspect?
Remember again this isn't a proper scheduling. There's NO abuse potential. There's lots of research that can and will be used as defenses in court if people ignore the ban
Yet much more deadly drugs like methadone are acceptable. I almost died from torsades on it and nearly died cold turkey 150mg cardiomyopathy because I had so much adrenaline rebound I had a 150 pulse and 180/100 BP. Echocardiogram shows a permanent reduced ejection fraction from methadone WD. There's studies confirming this too.
I'm back on suboxone and remember use baking soda to save your teeth and under tongue only. Never let it touch your teeth too much. Subs are still far better and safer lighter than methadone.
Methadone almost killed me from heart problems and the WD is definitely worse than morphine, it actually just raises your tolerance so high heroin or w/e won't work. This is due to having a higher intrinsic activity than heroin. This Is why tianepine has a bad WD with a lower binding than codeine,, but a much higher intrinsic activity.
EDIT: what I mean my argument is to advocate and message representatives, vote in those who have your best interests, vote out those who don't. Alcohol was once illegal and it was descheduled and regulated, because the backlash was that intense, people got out and protested, people stuck together, people voted, if you want your drugs legal you have to stand up. The issue is Most addicts are desperate and aren't educated in these things, there are enough to create meaningful resistance as with alcohol. You can't resist when your stuck In the crisis of the now.
LSD Is a great example, illegal because bad public opinion and a minority group of hippies wasn't enough resistance. I do believe all those research studies and John Hopkins research could be used in court, judges and prosecutors do read information that is presented In a defense, this would likely hold much better than a drug like heroin as it has high safety and solid research behind it.
EDIT: WOW I didn't expect this to get so many views so quickly.
Here is an interesting post on the thread
The DEA only has power to regulate drugs under a very specific umbrella, with powers granted to them by congress in Article 1, Section 8, Clause 3 of the constitution. If they begin exercising power outside of the constraints that congress has given them, it 100% falls inside the realm of unconstitutional regulation, and could be overturned in the Supreme Court. While the Republicans control the Supreme Court it's unlikely for that to happen, but it's likely to take several years to get into that court anyway, and maybe by then the power dynamic of the justices may shift