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" If a drug makes people feel good it will be outlawed whether it is completely harmless or very dangerous." " ....the goal is not harm mitigation (despite the
by patrickk 16y ago
" If a drug makes people feel good it will be outlawed whether it is completely harmless or very dangerous."
" ....the goal is not harm mitigation (despite the rhetoric of government officials) but keeping people from consuming psychoactive substances that make them feel good."
Supporting evidence? Those are some dramatic claims you are making.
I felt good with morphine in my system after an operation, and felt a lot worse without it once the effects wore off. Also, a nice cold beer is just the ticket after a long week. No danger of those being banned anytime soon.
- abalashov 16y agoOne easy explanation is that a cold beer doesn't make you feel as good, and morphine is administered only in a controlled environment.
- jacoblyles 16y agoMarijuana is safer than alcohol or tobacco, and it's certainly safer than whatever recreational substance some guy is cooking up in his lab. Why is it illegal? Have you seen "Reefer Madness"? Scientific piece of work, that. Meanwhile, some kids at Georgetown University face 20 years in prison for making an illegal but less intense version of a drug which is legal in 47 states: http://reason.com/blog/2010/10/26/the-georgetown-drug-lab-bust-m http://reason.com/blog/2010/10/26/the-georgetown-drug-lab-bu.... A huge short-term risk from most recreational drugs is simply not knowing what is in them, especially if they come in a pill, powder, or liquid form. And that is an effect of prohibition, not the drugs themselves. Of course government officials will pontificate on the horrors of drugs every time prohibition kills another kid that doesn't know what is in his ecstasy.