Anyone that's addicted to their smartphone needs to put their phone in their pocket for an entire lunch break and use the time to observe others using their smartphones - it's a bad look.
Optics wise, staring down at a tiny screen and repeatedly poking at it doesn't look good and regardless of what you're actually doing many people are going to assume you're wasting time with something like Facebook, Candy Crush or just browsing porn.
I would think securing source code is significantly more important than securing comments. So any encryption or protection would cover the entire codebase instead of just the less important parts
The fact is that America had far less problems before the War on Drugs.
Police officers would focus their efforts on solving and preventing real crimes as opposed to playing puritan nanny and rifling through people's pockets telling them they're not allowed to be in possession of x, y or z.
I think you are forgetting prescription drugs, who have had their dangers grossly underestimated to further medical industry profits.
Every day I see people on the streets, destroyed and turned to ghouls in great part because of the well known destructive drugs. Heroin, crack cocaine, meth, alcohol. There is no reason to pretend these aren't destructive. And there is no reason to put psychedelics in the same category, because these substances have nothing in common.
That said, wealthy people could actually avoid most of it by using more expensive materials like PTFE and glass while having all of their food produced with production that doesn't involve any of the plastics that leech.
If wealthy people were universally more intelligent we'd see an upper tier of foods made with zero plastic contact in some kind of "zero plastic certified" facility so they could just grab it and go.
The first region to somehow effectively ban any access to Facebook, TikTok, Instagram and social media for people under the age of 21 will raise the first generation of young people to rule over the rest of the world's social media addicted hoi polloi.
Having a permanent public visual record of "growing up" isn't going to help people as much as their parents seem to think it will and the only viable leaders, politicians, Justices, etc. will come from this hypothetical region.
Or they'll find a massive brain drain, unless you find some non-authoritarian way to leave. China probably has a lot of netizens that want to experience the rest of the Internet, or game more than two hours a night, but they won't be able to escape without the CCP threatening their families.
The studies are designed this way to keep the shaman in the equation when the drugs become treatments. Informal polling over decades shows MDMA is pretty impressive on its own.
We need a clinical study where a group of veterans with PTSD is given MDMA and an isolated quiet place to go for several hours. Each of them is told they're receiving a drug that cures PTSD. The placebo effect paired with the brain rewiring effect of MDMA will cure more people than any other method and demonstrate that the effect is self-contained.
I'd take the bet that MDMA + talk therapy is more effective than MDMA alone, based on the theory of action that recollection is not a read-only operation in the brain, and traumatic memories remain as such in no small part due to the intense negative emotions experienced when recalling them. By forcing/encouraging recollection of traumatic memories, while subduing the negative emotions with MDMA, the connection between those strong negative emotions and the memories are weakened.
Basically, the MDMA subdues the negative emotions, and the talk therapy forces recollection. Without the latter, you just have a pleasant trip, but I highly doubt real progress would be made against the trauma.
It depends on how much study you do before hand and how much you go into the session with intention. If you're not good at self-education then I agree a therapist as a guide is helpful.
This is why the objective admission system used by the University of California is so important. Nobody can game their way into a UC and IIRC, being a legacy only DQs you from some financial assistance they offer to 'first in family' to attend.
Optics wise, staring down at a tiny screen and repeatedly poking at it doesn't look good and regardless of what you're actually doing many people are going to assume you're wasting time with something like Facebook, Candy Crush or just browsing porn.