We're winning the war on drugs or God doesn't make mistakes
I get freaked out thinking about surgeons, pilots and cops with guns getting high before their shifts! Maybe it is just me?
I do think it should be legal for the chemo people too.
Holly
Me too.
hmmm aspirin? dodgy stuff. Drugs r bad mkay!
Well stated SirDent.
This is a very simple problem full of complexity. A few key points need to be understood to make any sense out of it.
1. Current drug laws are NOT based on harm a substance can cause, but rather on it's accepted medical efficacy. That is why tobacco and alcohol are not illegal, because the laws aren't based on harm.
It is basically considered an infringement of your constitutional rights for the government to dictate what an individual does with his or her own body. But in order to help protect the citizens from unscrupulous purveyors of patent medicines to which a large portion of the country, some estimates put it at between 20%-30%, were addicted the Pure Food and Drug act was instituted in 1906. That was the start. Then as you go along the history of drug laws in the U.S. you find time and again that certain substances were outlawed in response to racial, political, or financial motivations. Finally we have the "Scheduling" of substances in 1971 which is based on their medical use and value. Recently the AMA called for a re-scheduling of marijuana in light of the overwhelming evidence of myriad medicinal applications.
I could go into great detail about this, but I should save it for a hub instead.
2.Given that the current laws are not based on harm we then need to understand that not all drugs are created equal. Marijuana is a schedule 1 substance, yet there is not a single recorded death from marijuana in the world....in all of recorded history!! Some substances that are scheduled lower and used in medicine are responsible for numerous deaths every day. I don't feel I need to even touch on alcohol and tobacco.
Simply if the drug laws were re-written based on harm and threat of addiction and addiction were treated as a medical issue rather than criminal, we would arrive at a much more sensible solution. If an honest assessment of the current situation were to be undertaken without any political, financial or religious agendas we would find that in reality the majority of problems stemming from drug use up to and including addiction are actually the result of the illegal status of many substances rather that the substance itself.
Legal and monitored access to these substances as well as honest and clear education in schools, not a DARE type program, I said honest, would go along way to ending many of the problems associated with substance use/abuse.- sneakorocksolidposted 14 years ago
0Check this for me will you sneak! This is grown from a $150.00 dutch seed for the Australian climate.
Fully mature in 3 months, no leaf, just purple and white tightly packed head.
This is the one designed to produce tetrahydrocannabinol or thc delta 9
Pain killer extraordinare!
There are honest and scientific drug guides out there, they should give kids the links.
http://biopsychiatry.com/Very good PBS, well stated.
- lyricsingrayposted 14 years ago0
Sorry but what does the war on drugs have to do with God?
:Rockabilly is a lost art in the States, it's where Big Country got it's roots, but now uses those roots to micterate upon. But that's another subject!
As for God, the Great Spirit gave us all the plants and animals to use to our benefit. Right now the only way we can use lots of those beneficial plants and animals, is if a company cans them, preserves them, and/or processes them. That way it's easier to tax us multiple times before we're granted use, instead of procuring them ourselves like Thomas Jefferson and George Washington demanded the original colonist do.
"What was done with the seed saved from the India Hemp last summer? It ought, all of it, to have been sewn again; that not only a stock of seed sufficient for my own purposes might have been raised, but to have disseminated the seed to others; as it is more valuable than the common Hemp."
George Washington
Writings of Washington, Vol. 35, pg. 72
"If people let government decide which foods they eat and medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as are the souls of those who live under tyranny."
-Thomas Jefferson
"An acre of the best ground for hemp, is to be selected and sewn in hemp and be kept for a permanent hemp patch." - Thomas Jefferson's Garden book
Makes you wonder what kind of so called "Americans" have been legislating for the past 100 years doesn't it?
Good input gentlemen.
- pgrundyposted 14 years ago0
I respect your belief (or lackthereof?) EH, it's difficult not to respect a guy like you who stands behind his words, and still has a sense of humor at the same time.
Ben, that was nice! Thank you. I gather you are not a screamin fundy then?
No fundamental foolery in my noggin! I was raised in a hellfire Roman Catholic tradition, twenty years of that was enough! I'm still a firm believer, but now I like to listen to everybodies' take, even the atheists. I used to have friendly spar/arguments with an atheist guy who studied a lot of Nietzsche and Kierkegaard, good times!
Mostly my belief is that so called "primitive" people had a better understanding of the spiritual realm, your Aborigines, my American Indians.
Not saying it to try and persuade you though Earnest, just laying out my interests.I do agree. I have lived in the Northern Territory for two years, and had many good times with my very spiritual aboriginal brothers.
Awesome EH, I have to go see if you've written about that experience. I didn't mean to sound pompous about "listening to atheists too" earlier! Hope I didn't come across that way.
To use your words, I'm not a big fan of "fundys" either. Thanks for sharing, I got to get some sleep now, or my wife will hang me high.
Man I wish I could swing the bucks to go to Austrailia, I like heat, and I think I could really take some aggression out on those marine toads you all have down under!
Nite EH!
- lyricsingrayposted 14 years ago0
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