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I mean if you can demonstrate valid sociological and physiological evidence that a drug should be outlawed because it is dangerous, then that is perfectly fine.

Otherwise it should be legal or at least decriminalized. Furthermore, a lot of drugs are only unsafe because the aren't regulated. MDMA (ecstasy) itself, for instance, really isn't overly dangerous. However, the fact that so few ecstasy pills are 100% MDMA makes the drug dangerous since you never really know what you are getting. Lack of regulation has made this drug way more dangerous than it would be otherwise.



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