I believe the primary issue with drugs is their ability to alter perceptions of reality. This aspect makes them inherently dangerous to political and societal systems, regardless of their health impacts.
I believe the primary issue with drugs is their ability to alter perceptions of reality. This aspect makes them inherently dangerous to political and societal systems, regardless of their health impacts.
While using weed, I’ve come to many realizations that I’m not sure I would have been open to normally. Most of those realizations were of the kind that those in power would like to tamp down, in general, to prevent unrest. I agree with your assessment in that last paragraph.
Perhaps with the crazy amount of school shootings, homelessness, wealth inequality, political corruption, etc. the ability to rethink reality might be a feature and not a bug...
The enforcement of laws against victimless crimes attracts bullies to the police force, and that's a huge problem. As bad, if not worse, than the damage done by petty thieves feeding their habit. Because now we have a culture where the drugs are a crime worth breaking into strangers' homes, guns a-blazin', to punish and prosecute. And it's hard to convince the public and the lawmakers to reverse course when the common argument is that people should be able to do drugs if they want to, or that maybe some are ok because they aren't as hard, etc.