When the drugs work: Moderation
June 22nd 2008 12:53
If you don't mind, may I suggest a reason as to why illicit drugs are such a problem in our society - because they're made illegal!
I'm sure we have all had a time in our life when we have been exposed to an illicit substance, where curiosity simply overcame us and we wished to find out on our own terms why it is illegal anyways. And with our own first hand account, one can decide if it is all that bad, all its cracked up to be, or altogether pointless.
If you find it lives up to your expectation and enjoy it, chances are you'll decide to come back for more. It is around this time when we could do with taking heed to the idea that everything is good for you - in moderation.
A simple example is chocolate. You have some, feel all warm and fuzzy, from which point you keep having it until stretch marks start developing - or you are able to provide insight to the situation and decide enough is enough.
Another example is opium. You take some for the first time, receive the high of a lifetime, and either decide to take note of the countless people who die at a young age from the stuff and maybe even empathise with them - or you figure its a high you would like to spend the rest of your life with and take it through from the needle to the grave.
Sure there's the in-betweenies, who enjoy a good dose every so often to ease a certain pain, be it emotional or physical. Hey they could even be having it purely for recreational reasons. Funnily enough, its the extremes we tend to hear about in fear campaigns across the media - even though people who begin taking drugs in their twenties are 95% (NB: no research here as far as I know) guaranteed to not let it develop into an addiction and use it simply for social entertainment.
So if we can put the chill on illicit substances, at the same time warning teenagers of their heightened sensitivity towards addiction at such an early age, we can all get on with our lives without the guilt placed on us by generations of neo-liberalists before us.
Don't pass the blunt, unless its not hydroponic. Don't give me heroin, unless it has been imported under some kind of fair trade agreement with government taxes on it rather than street-level taxes. Actually forget it, I'm still buzzing off the combination of nicotine, caffiene and alcohol I've consumed today.
I guess that's really all we need.
I'm sure we have all had a time in our life when we have been exposed to an illicit substance, where curiosity simply overcame us and we wished to find out on our own terms why it is illegal anyways. And with our own first hand account, one can decide if it is all that bad, all its cracked up to be, or altogether pointless.
If you find it lives up to your expectation and enjoy it, chances are you'll decide to come back for more. It is around this time when we could do with taking heed to the idea that everything is good for you - in moderation.
A simple example is chocolate. You have some, feel all warm and fuzzy, from which point you keep having it until stretch marks start developing - or you are able to provide insight to the situation and decide enough is enough.
Another example is opium. You take some for the first time, receive the high of a lifetime, and either decide to take note of the countless people who die at a young age from the stuff and maybe even empathise with them - or you figure its a high you would like to spend the rest of your life with and take it through from the needle to the grave.
Sure there's the in-betweenies, who enjoy a good dose every so often to ease a certain pain, be it emotional or physical. Hey they could even be having it purely for recreational reasons. Funnily enough, its the extremes we tend to hear about in fear campaigns across the media - even though people who begin taking drugs in their twenties are 95% (NB: no research here as far as I know) guaranteed to not let it develop into an addiction and use it simply for social entertainment.
So if we can put the chill on illicit substances, at the same time warning teenagers of their heightened sensitivity towards addiction at such an early age, we can all get on with our lives without the guilt placed on us by generations of neo-liberalists before us.
Don't pass the blunt, unless its not hydroponic. Don't give me heroin, unless it has been imported under some kind of fair trade agreement with government taxes on it rather than street-level taxes. Actually forget it, I'm still buzzing off the combination of nicotine, caffiene and alcohol I've consumed today.
I guess that's really all we need.
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