As someone who struggles with my school and work routine due to Insomnia and revenge sleep procrastination (RSP) among other things, I have taken great lengths to research overlooked and misunderstood drugs, therapies, diets, and more.
After looking into GHB more, i have realized how revolutionary its benefits could be for anyone. But after searching online on how to buy it, i quickly learned that it was a schedule I drug; So after learning more about its history, and now i come to you with this petition.

Gamma-Hydroxybutyrate (GHB), originally used as an effective sleep aid, has the potential to change lives, especially in fields such as first responders, who would be capable of working significantly longer, higher performance shifts.

Developed in 1874, GHB was marketed in Europe as an intravenous anesthetic in 1964. Despite its benefits, it wasn't practical for surgeries, but was useful in intensive care due to its unique properties:

• Slows heart rate without blood pressure loss
  
  
• Doesn't irritate veins
  
  
• Doesn't suppress respiratory centers
  
  
• Relaxes muscles
  
  
• Induces sleep without reducing oxygen consumption
  
  
• It protects tissue from injury due to blood loss (e.g., during hemorrhagic shock) or from reperfusion injuries after a temporary loss of the blood supply.
  
  
• It permits an easy reduction and maintenance of the body temperature and reduces the metabolic demands of the brain

Decades of research followed and demonstrated GHB's extraordinary properties and low toxicity. It metabolizes to succinate and water, has a high LD50, and under 100 deaths have been conclusively attributed to it. GHB is a powerful sleep drug, accelerating REM and nREM sleep leaving recipients feeling refreshed—in many cases after just 3-4 hours of sleep.

Given these remarkable benefits and the decades of research supporting its use, why has no one ever heard of it? And why is it schedule I?

GHB was classified unfairly as a Schedule I drug under the "date rape act" of 2000, due to the death of Samantha Reid from acute overdose through a laced drink. Despite many other drugs having the same or greater abuse potential with less regulation, this act placed GHB into schedule I, with its precursor in schedule III. It is sad and almost hilarious the drug that holds exponentially more abuse potential, Rohypnol, is classified as Schedule IV in comparison. 
Notably, this act was not actually due to the significant threat of GHB as a potential date-rape drug (Only 2% of date-rape cases reported in the UK were attiributed to GHB, with the US coming in at 0.2-4.4% of drug assisted sexual assault cases.), but rather because of the threat it posed to pharmaceutical companies. Its efficacy and lack of side effects would reduce the number of symptoms that can be treated with more drugs, which means a smaller customer base for them, this pressure from the drug industry ultimately pushed the government to regulate GHB when the opportunity arose. 

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(Disclaimer, i am not "A Midwestern Doctor" on Substack.)

This arbitrary and corrupt restriction is denying countless individuals an extremely beneficial tool that can aid focus, energy, and brainpower. 

This petition is for the overturning of: H.R.2130 - Hillory J. Farias and Samantha Reid Date-Rape Drug Prohibition Act of 2000

Please sign this petition to help bring a long-forgotten sleep solution back into our hands, your signature could be the catalyst for improvement in millions of lives.