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Liberal thinking ? (very long post)

Posted by omega man on June 3, 2002, at 22:38:08

I got chasted for recommending Extasy in a previous thread to a sensible person who wanted drug recommendations to get him back into music..

Obviously extasy is a music drug...thats its main function...this brings an interesting argument regarding drugs...

some of us are obviously mature ..and strong enough in mind to use non legal drugs sensibly...after all an enormous market for recreational drugs exist purely for non illness related use...

The way I see it is that drugs are chemicals..we introduce (hopefully) of free will ...many are illegal because if used persistantly they are very dangerous or threatning to our behaviours and moods...

I learned about taking drugs thru illness and then I realized about the illegal ones and tried them too...

today at any given time I have both legal and non legal drugs..and I let good sense indicate whats the right amount ..or time to take them...

I may have a more modern view in that I see we have a limited life and that adjuncting prescription drugs with those with no practical function gives an added pleasure to life..times of intense creativity and altered "states" of mind which have done nothing but help me to grow or experience "time" and my senses ..in ways that I could not imagine non chemical experience could or has done..

Whatever has gone wrong that made me a psychiatric case to begin with..I have to say that having the non legal drugs to hand with some obvious common sense had helped me resolve really deep seated problems...

I take non legal drugs on an occasional ..one time basis... not to help my more serious problems...but as something to help lift something good to something great..a sort of amplification agent for reality ..not the other way round..

Taking ectasy for example has helped me purge the intense grief of death..taking perhaps three years out of that process...maybe I would never have done it without that..

Taking cannibas provided me with amazing periods of insight into reflective periods where I can look and laugh at some of the things I do...a higher state of self awareness..

Taking heroin (not injecting) has provided me with a physical rush that helped kick start a bodybuilding regime...(remember i'm talking about one time ..and not habitual use)

the list goes on and on...and my life is richer for all these colours and structures I can give to how I percieve...

I don't live thru drugs..they help enhance or give another insight to how I live while I'm here...I have a very rich and varied life and the only drug that ever hooked me was Benzos..a legal drug..

Nearly every drug problem I have had was with side effects of the prescribed ones I have to take..but thats not a criticsm of them ..just an observation ...

the crux of what i'm trying to say is that the illegal drugs are actually illegal mainly because they get you hooked (if you don't have good sense) or cause you harm..but mainly its because they don't have a practical use....after all ask yourself..just how many recreational drugs can you buy legally ?

none..why...perhaps its just too new an idea to have recreational drugs..or just that no government wants to take responsibility for something thats non productive..

but they would'nt be availible if they did'nt enhance how we live..

Also most illegal drugs are better researched than some of the untried cocktails that we see here..in the sense that word of mouth provides all we need to know..

Psychobabble seems like the front line for the legal ones and I would hate to guess how many people have died who used to post here..due to problems..with legal cocktails...how could we know ? perhaps we should.. of course many die thru illegal ones too..but to deny ourselves pleasure by having no legal recreational drugs seems perverse too...as humans our lives are our mental existance ..it seems to me we have just realized how the brain works..and all this is new...so most of its not legal..

legalizing recreational drugs would eliminate many of the problems as the clean production and usage rules would guide the non-sensible.

I never had any drugs before the age of 25...and perhaps being a full adult (whatever that really means) helped me have the necessary depth to know who I was...but could you say that of kids force fed Ritalin ?

Perhaps only a small percentage of us have what it takes mentally to navigate ourselves thru these chemical options with common sense usage for the better...certainly ten years later...my life has gone from horrible to great..but I would say hand on heart that the illegal ones have helped play 50% part in that process.



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