Opinions on recreational drug use?

P_Funk · 10-28-07, 10:59 PM

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Originally Posted by kiwi_2005

Well i know alot of ppl into their late 50's onwards that have smoke cannibis all there lifes and are hard working men with families, good fathers, husbands and they're not some doppy dropout lying around on the couch like ppl make out cannibis users are. Thats a MYTH. Its really up to the user, if you smoke and want to lay about doing nothing dope will help you achieve that, but if you want to be active in whatever you do dope also will help you along. These ppl that ly around all day lookign all dopy cannot handle the effects of cannibis they will most likely become peace activist or simular they shouldn't smoke it if thats all it does to them.

Ive seen many lifes destroyed through alchohol. I haven't seen one through cannibis.

Thats exactly the point. Most truly recreational drugs do not create an alien reaction in people but instead magnify, focus, or exude things in a person which are not normally so prominant (or not prominant) under the sober circumstances. This is where clinical use of LSD to cure alcoholism (the original use of the drug before Timothy Leary popularized the acid culture) comes from, and it showed great success before the wholesale criminalization of it. The higher awareness of ones own neurosies helped to force people to accept a fact that they refused to, as accepting a truth or a necessity of change is often denied by addicts.

Who really cares whether the effect can be measured as beneficial by today's standards, often very conservative mainstream standards. Being drunk makes you giddy or stupid or horny or emotionally loose, but its my right to want to be obnoxious. The effects only matter when they are prohibitively and statistically unacceptable. Driving is probably more hazardous statistically as smoking weed responsibly is. Having unprotected sex is probably statistically more likely to create a physical dependance on the systems of the government (STD treatment) than weed is for cancer or addiction.

Good post kiwi.