| jv103 said: I decided that the war on drugs is completely necessary. Why? How else can the state have a work force that is coherent enough to be a labor force? If opium were widely ready and legal, I think you would see a big increase in use, because it relieves the pain from being fucked by the system. No honestly, I think that is why drugs aren't legal. You can say everything about education for something, but if people are looking for fulfillment they can't find in gross consumerism (especially now), then who wouldn't want to be totally obliterated. Of course it doesn't completely stop drug flow, but it isolates it gives the state more power and marginalizes the complaints of addicts. No one ever asks why people want to do drugs (besides some are fun recreational), but why do some people always have to be either on uppers or downers, being flat fucking sucks. There may be something inherently flawed in the structure of western civilization, who knows? Maybe people really can't stand working 40 +hours a week (I am getting so off topic). For the people criminilaziation isn't necessary, to maintain the states power and keep people in the dream, it is. @Akuma - Dude. I know how many people smoke weed. I live in California. I go to UC Berkeley. I stayed in Santa Cruz for a while. Even when I lived in a little ass rural town in California (Sonora) with 4000 people in it, weed was extremely prevalent (so was meth though). I know its an anecdote, but I don't think I'm unrealistic about who smokes weed. I used to deal in high school, once to my girlfriends dad. ( it was awkward when we broke up and he still came to my workplace and asked to by an O). I love you Akuma. HOLY SHIT I WAS JUST looking at UN world drug report 2007. $8 gram for cocaine in the Congo and 90 cents for a gram of weed in like libya. Amazing. |
You can say that about anything though. I've seen as many peoples lives ruined because of a video game addiction as I have a drug addiction. Should video games be illegal? People love to space out and waste their time watching mindless shows like Survivor and CSI. Should those be illegal because they make us less productive?
Alcohol has as many addictive qualities and negative side effects as some of even the stronger narcotics. Should it be illegal? Tobacco costs our healtcare system so much money it isn't even funny. Should it be illegal? Prescription drug abuse has skyrocketed in the last two decades. Should we not allow people to be prescribed those drugs and ban them outright?
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
