Steve Jobs, LSD and Drug Freedom
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Steve Jobs, LSD and Drug Freedom
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Re: Steve Jobs, LSD and Drug Freedom
#2Godwins law is tranforming to Jobs law. All discussions will lead to Steve Jobs.
Re: Steve Jobs, LSD and Drug Freedom
#3Godwins law is tranforming to Jobs law. All discussions will lead to Steve Jobs.
Not really. This is little more than the media using Steve Jobs' death as a hook for whatever particular story they are writing or comment they wish to make. It too will pass.
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#4I wish that his article had delved more into the long term effects (benefits or otherwise) of taking psychedelic drugs rather than going off into a complaint about US drug policy.
Anyone got interesting, concrete data to share rather than anecdotes about Steve Jobs?
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#5I wish that his article had delved more into the long term effects (benefits or otherwise) of taking psychedelic drugs rather than going off into a complaint about US drug policy. Anyone got interesting, concrete data to share rather than anecdotes about Steve Jobs?
> a complaint about US drug policy.
That would be indicative of an article about politics, which would be better off on some other site for the discussions of US politics and laws.
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#6I've never used illegal drugs, and I've never had a desire. However, the one problem we do have by keeping certain drugs illegal is that Americans are destroying countries, like Mexico, where a week doesn't by where a drug gang hasn't killed someone. Illegal drug money is used to finance so much corruption and killing, that there seems to be little value in keeping them illegal, especially considering that everyone who wants to take drugs still does. If certain drugs do have harmful effects then at least the effects will be mostly limited to the people who take them.
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#7I've never used illegal drugs, and I've never had a desire. However, the one problem we do have by keeping certain drugs illegal is that Americans are destroying countries, like Mexico, where a week doesn't by where a drug gang hasn't killed someone. Illegal drug money is used to finance so much corruption and killing, that there seems to be little value in keeping them illegal, especially considering that everyone w…
College students are surrounded by drugs. They flow so freely that it seems like prohibition isn't really working. People who want drugs can get them. I don't do them either, nor do I have the desire but it just seems like only the poor and disadvantaged drug users go to jail.
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#8I've taken LSD and 'shrooms a few times, and while I can understand what Jobs is saying, I think he was wrong. I had mystical experiences where I thought I understood that the whole world was connected together, and I was connected to the world, and other deep insights. I think this was just brain-addled delusion, not any insight into how things really are.
That said, I fully support these things being legal, and (for people who aren't naturally anxious) trying them with a good "set" and "setting".
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#9The article is all over the place and somewhat poorly written, but I generally agree with the overall premise before I even clicked the link: America's drug policy of prohibition is a waste of time, money and resources.
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#10[edit because absurdity is apparently not obvious]
By the author's logic,[/edit] perhaps people should consider putting their children up for adoption, too.
However, I suspect that moving to Silicon Valley would be more likely to provide them with opportunities for success.