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I've always thought that the problem with the drug war is that governments simply try to regulate the usage instead of regulating the desire. People use drugs
by TGJ 16y ago
I've always thought that the problem with the drug war is that governments simply try to regulate the usage instead of regulating the desire. People use drugs because their lives suck. People drink because their day sucked. People use drugs to change their state of reality because they do not enjoy the state they are in. I think the funny part of it all, in some shape or fashion, government is the reason why people do not enjoy the state they are in. Taxes, rules, and regulations are created for every aspect of your life. The government controls every part of life and when you are high, there is no control. You get to be free for as long as the high lasts.
To the decriminalization, if I can grow it in my back yard, the government should have no right to say what I can do with it. If I have to create it in a lab setting and plan on selling it to someone else, then there should be some control. I've never heard of weed killing anyone, but I've heard of all the rest killing people. So when it's possible to kill someone, there should be roads to justice available.
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- maqr 16y agoSome people use drugs for life-enhancement. You probably don't read HN because your life sucks, or play video games because your life sucks, or watching sporting events because your life sucks. For some people, drugs are just another enjoyable part of life, not an escape from life.
- mburney 16y agoI'm surprised how few people realize this. I guess drug use is one of those topics that tend to shut off people's rational faculties and make them react with emotion and a holier-than-thou attitude
- njharman 16y agoNear constant anti-drug propaganda from infancy through adult hood has that effect.
- detst 16y agoThat and I think a lot of people outgrow drug use or advocacy. They did it when they were young, stopped and now don't care about the rights of other people. Or maybe they just developed a cynical view of youth or see the negative drug culture. Basically, an "I don't care anymore so just keep them banned" attitude or an inability to do analytical thinking to see that the negatives of our drug culture aren't inherent to drug use.
- maqr 16y agoYou speak some depressing truth.
- TGJ 16y agoSure, I would agree with you on that. But for the other people, the ones not included in your 'some' I believe that drugs are used as an escape. I've known plenty of people that had their nirvana moment and then continued to use for years after because it's better than coming home and watching tv while waiting to go to sleep and start the 8-5 all over again. Walk into a gas station at 5 pm and see how many people buy a six pack on their way home. Or ponder the large amount of the population taking the legal drugs to alleviate depression.
- ghshephard 16y agoAnd, for some, drugs can be a transformative experience, yielding spiritual and philosophical insight into the universe. So, beyond just being pleasurable (and that, in it's own right, is probably sufficient justification for their use), drugs may actually be a fundamental component of self awareness for many.
- kunley 16y agoThis is a common wishful thinking but actually no one of the famous "drug-philosophers", starting from Huxley, managed to create any path or even small practice or routine which could be used by other people than themselves to improve their lives. You know, any way of living which can't be passed to other people is kinda useless.
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