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Why We Should Say Yes to Drugs

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Re: Why We Should Say Yes to Drugs

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I'm totally on-board with opposition to the pointless 'War on Drugs,' but what I'm not cool with is when pundits and other public figures on the other side of the spectrum PUSH for its wide-adoption and integration into everyday lifestyle akin to alcohol -- like the article's author is doing here -- which I feel is equally detrimental because there have been many well documented cases of people succumbing to the spell of psychedelics and similar substances. [0][1]

[0] http://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/only-a-handful...

[1] https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/ppm59z/smoking-weed-can-b...

Re: Why We Should Say Yes to Drugs

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the crazy war on drugs and stigma is something I never really understood. Why do I when I take for example mdma, a drug that just makes me feel happy and loved, become a criminal and can go to prison? This just seems so weird. And then we have alcohol and cigarettes which are even more damaging to your body than a lot of things, and it’s completely fine.

I’d say it should be up choice. If you want to take substance x over alcohol, take it.

Controlling and encouraging safe usage is the way to go. People that want to take drugs will find and take them anyway.

Re: Why We Should Say Yes to Drugs

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I'm totally on-board with opposition to the pointless 'War on Drugs,' but what I'm not cool with is when pundits and other public figures on the other side of the spectrum PUSH for its wide-adoption and integration into everyday lifestyle akin to alcohol -- like the article's author is doing here -- which I feel is equally detrimental because there have been many well documented cases of people succumbing to the spel…

Completely agree - in fact I am starting to look at fats and sugar as drugs at least as harmful long term as some "real" drugs. When you look at coca cola adverts and big supermarkets as pushers, things start to become much clearer and the scale of the struggle on obesity really is startling.

So yes, I am in favour of democratic nanny states.

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