What drugs should be legal?

[PLAS]

Let's do a Varzovia-style body hug.

interesting fact about my band: half of us don't drink alcohol, and also, half the band doesn't smoke pot

but both halves are comprised of different people

 

[PLAS]

The poll looks pretty well how I would hope it would look in real life, with the only grey area being the 'shrooms. I struggled with that one myself, but it just seems like anything more than cannabis is a bit strong or addictive or both.

I really don't likee the aftereffects of chemicals

nature all the way

 

[Wilhelm-Scream]

interesting fact about my band: half of us don't drink alcohol, and also, half the band doesn't smoke pot

but both halves are comprised of different people

Well, I hope you all die of overdoses.

 

[ShadowBoxing]

Don't forget the lobbying power of the big pharmaceutical companies. They want people using drugs, they just want their drugs to be the ones people use.

They really haven't been keeping Marijuana off the Senate floor though, so there is no real hypocracy there. They'd love Marijuana to be legal for people to use medicinally, they'd make a killing. I think my point was more geered to showing how one highly addictive and destructive substance is keeping another off the floor for fear they wouldn't make money, or it would hurt their profits rather.

 

[8Ball2/JanG5]

Well if people dont like being civilized then I really dont care.

You should at least understand them, there are other viewpoints. There ARE counterpoint civilization-nationalism theories, they are very common starting in the modern time period with people such as Frederich Neitzche, and are common among thinkers in general. There is a sort of social movement that contemplates, wait, this rise of nations and laws and having every corner of the earth covered by government is maybe not the best thing for humanity. Even if you don't agree, there's much to be learned. Everything in moderation.

And it is West Wing, the show, the one about a fictional democratic president.

I'm more moderate, I just don't think I really have a right to tell anyone else how to live their private lives. I'm not even knowledgeable enough to tell people in detail what is natural human conduct or not (and I don't think anyone is knowledgeable enough to know that either).

 

[Flame on!]

I just don't think I really have a right to tell anyone else how to live their private lives.

I agree, but what some fail to understand is that the outlawing of alcohol or tobacco would not affect my everyday life at all. To others, it would be the largest violation of civi rights since prohibition.

Of course I'm in favour of certain drugs remaining illegal. I don't use them, I don't want to use them, and truth be told I find those who do use them to be slightly tragic.

 

[Equint77]

the most addictive drug in the world is music.... suuckas

 

[reggiebar]

the most addictive drug in the world is music.... suuckas

Close, but NO. The most addictive drug in the world is SEX.

 

[Holly Goodhead]

I used to powder my nose.

 

[Admiral_N8]

You should at least understand them, there are other viewpoints. There ARE counterpoint civilization-nationalism theories, they are very common starting in the modern time period with people such as Frederich Neitzche, and are common among thinkers in general. There is a sort of social movement that contemplates, wait, this rise of nations and laws and having every corner of the earth covered by government is maybe not the best thing for humanity. Even if you don't agree, there's much to be learned. Everything in moderation.

And it is West Wing, the show, the one about a fictional democratic president.

I'm more moderate, I just don't think I really have a right to tell anyone else how to live their private lives. I'm not even knowledgeable enough to tell people in detail what is natural human conduct or not (and I don't think anyone is knowledgeable enough to know that either).

I understand them, they really just want anarchy, and thats just stupid.

And why are you using lines from a tv show??

 

[ShadowBoxing]

I understand them, they really just want anarchy, and thats just stupid.

And why are you using lines from a tv show??

Neitzche never wanted anarchy at all.

 

[8Ball2/JanG5]

I understand them, they really just want anarchy, and thats just stupid.

And why are you using lines from a tv show??

I'm not using lines from a T.V. show, you were responding to another poster and asking if that was really West Wing and I jumped in affirming it. It's a show about a fictional democratic president...

 

[8Ball2/JanG5]

Neitzche never wanted anarchy at all.

Right, as I said, everything in moderation. A distopia is not moderation.

 

[Sandman138]

And why are you using lines from a tv show??

Because it was apt.

 

[Sandman138]

Right, as I said, everything in moderation. A distopia is not moderation.

Not to support anarchy, but it's not correct to lump it with distopia like that. Though it is a utopian ideal, and thus rather flawed, anarchy is the basis of small community interaction. Do you decide things with your friends in a democratice manner? In a socialist manner? I'd be willing to bet that most of the time most group decisions such as that would be decided in a manner akin to libertarian socialism.

 

[8Ball2/JanG5]

I meant a distopia as in our state, under increasingly totalitarian-esq control where the people just have less power and are somehow more willing to give it up than ever, and the society and economy seem ready to fall out.

That sort of bag.

I think we need to balance the power out here, i'm not crying out for anarchy but, but I think people should be able to do as they please a lot more.

 

[Sandman138]

I find it funny, since the republican party is supposed to have more libertarian ideals that they are so fond of legislating morality. I've always found the republican attitude of small government to make the most sense, but the party rarely stands by that ideology.