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Why does the author admit they used illegal drugs?

• stuaxo 4y ago
  It's just not that unusual in the UK, Es really aren't on the same level as opiates for instance.
  • zoover2020 4y ago
    Same in other parts of Europe. Current population of 18-30 year olds for sure has a majority of people who tried MDMA or other psychedelics
  • fastball 4y ago
    Indeed, arguably the biggest risk from taking ecstasy is because it is illegal and therefore has a higher potential to be cut with substances that are much more likely to cause users harm.
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• kruuuder 4y ago
  More people should do that. This will help create reasonable drug laws better than the laws we currently have in most countries, too many of which are based on ideology, fiction and religious moral attitudes.
• barry-cotter 4y ago
  Because unless you are an author who gets famous and writes about using drugs all the time and practically nothing else[1] no one except the police care. Everyone over 30 knows that every professional workplace has habitual coke users, that a large majority of artists/musicians/art teachers/bar tenders/chefs are currently or were previously users of weed or LSD. [1] https://pen.org/press-clip/british-author-barred-for-moral-turpitude/ https://pen.org/press-clip/british-author-barred-for-moral-t...
• omgomgomgomg 4y ago
  Many reasons. The event is too far back in the past to be proven and prosecuted. And in the uk and europe, the governments will not go after such things,maybe europe is a bit more free than other countries in that regard. And once the uk was past this https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebeneezer_Goode https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebeneezer_Goode , it became mainstream.
• deafpolygon 4y ago
  It's rarely a crime to use drugs. It's a crime to have some in your possession in most cases. You can't prosecute for drug usage.
  • hericium 4y ago
    iirc in Sweden you can't have drugs in your bloodstream.
    • deafpolygon 4y ago
      "Minor drug related crimes, like own use of illegal drugs, provides only a daily fine but means that the person ends up in the Police records." --- "In 2004, Sweden had 84 people per 100,000 in either prison or remand prison. This is less than the average for the OECD (132 people per 100,000) and much less than the number for the United States (725 per 100,000)." --- Both taken from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drug_policy_of_Sweden https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drug_policy_of_Sweden - I'd say that whatever they're doing, it seems to be fairly effective.
      • hericium 4y ago
        > I'd say that whatever they're doing, it seems to be fairly effective. It's a police state with an ongoing alcohol prohibition, tremendous amount of road blocks in the capital and night club bouncers having to have basic police training. Compared to Estonia where there's almost no cops visible, no no-go zones and very little crime - Sweden isn't doing that well.
• jmcgough 4y ago
  MDMA will probably be regularly used for psycholytic therapy within the next decade and likely see legalization in the same cities that're legalizing psychedelics right now. It has a lot of potential for treating PTSD, trauma and anxiety, and most of the danger is around impure pressings, exhaustion, water toxicity, etc. Personally, it helped me a lot with learning how to open up to and trust people. I used to think I was an introvert, but I really just had severe social anxiety from a difficult upbringing.
• andybak 4y ago
  Honesty?
• kstenerud 4y ago
  Why not? It's not testimony under oath.
• nibbleshifter 4y ago
  Why not? You can't be charged for using drugs in civilized countries. Possession might be illegal, but past consumption is not.
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