| bardicverse said: Agreed. If you check the post above yours, I actually found some good use out of what you are suggesting.
As for alcohol vs drugs, maybe its a moderation factor? You can have a few beers and be ok, but is there such a thing as a "little bit of coke" and being ok? I don't know. I started drinking at 14, have learned from overdrinking NOT to overdrink anymore, and now only drink socially and stop before I get anything more than a buzz, so I can keep other people in check.
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I definitely agree that the "hardcore" drugs are way more addictive than alcohol. I am not advocating that drugs for which there is a great deal of chemical and sociological evidence that they are dangerous should be legalized. Really one of the reasons alcohol is so bad is it causes so much violence and so many deaths. Pretty much all domestic violence cases arise from alcohol.
And moderation is absolutely key with alcohol, as with just about anything. And moderation is definitely more difficult to exercise with heroin or cocaine. But the same is definitely not true for marijuana.
I mean I don't really expect all these drugs to be legalized overnight, but when you get down to it most of the classical arguments for why marijuana should be illegal are just plain wrong, and making marijuana illegal has actually been counterproductive economically, sociologically, and in terms of crime prevention.
We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls. The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. –Raoul Duke
It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...." Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson
