I agree, if we look at any area of research humans do put in the effort and learn things. Also people like yourself Esper, this research you do I hope you at least collect it. I do think the area or receptors, how many people do we have that understand psychedelics and chemistry? Not many, so it is up to people like yourself to keep pushing. So yeah, thank you big pharma and thank you Esper.
When it comes to big pharma I think the only thing we all hate is the greed. Pushing drugs through the FDA (meaning paying off someone these days) and releasing drugs to the public that could be harmful for a profit. But when it comes to the developing and creating I think this is where human ingenuity really does shine. Whether the drugs are safe or not is different from the research.
Drugs and receptors. I think Salvia gave us a lot to think about as far as how certain drugs work. How can a kappa receptor explain it? Or even LSD and psilocybin. I love reading how the physical interaction works with drugs and the body, then we have the whole mind side of effects.