Drugs Are Not Immoral, But Banning Them Is
Submitted by thenung on Fri, 02/15/2013 - 13:31"With many states considering and several actually achieving the legalization of recreational possession and use of cannabis, the Federal Government's War On Drugs is (thankfully) once again in the national spotlight.
In this article I won't go into whether or not marijuana is good or bad for you (although every honest study done on the plant has suggested that it is generally harmless and even possibly beneficial), or just how much of an outstanding failure the drug war really is, the decimating impact the drug war has on poorer communities, or even the amount of people that die each year in Mexico from violent cartels; cartels that depend on the illegal drug trade (over 50,000 dead in the past 6 years).
I'll only talk about how prohibition is an attack on personal liberty, and therefore immoral."
Read the rest at:
http://simplefactsplainarguments.blogspot.com/2013/01/drugs-...
I can understand its medical qualities
but I don't understand the 'recreational' side. Just like I don't understand drinking until you're buzzed/drunk. What's the point?
We all tend to want to 'escape from it all', but there is nothing beneficial by escaping into an induced high. It's unproductive. You might as well just sit in front of a TV and watch 'Dancing' or 'Idol'. There's no difference.
With so much out there to learn about and explore, there must be something better to do with your time than waste it in a drug-induced stupor.
I'm fortunate enough to have a garden to play in and I escape there. I'm looking at organic seed sites to figure out which new vegetables I'm going to try this year. To me, that's fun.
Sitting around doped up and finding everything laughable is not fun. I actually think it's sad and pathetic. Escaping like that is not the answer to your problems. We have such a short amount of time on this earth and every second is precious. I think we forget that.
If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.
James Madison
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Great article, thanks.