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Sooo…….Do you support making drugs legal?
To what limit and why or why not?

Whether for recreational purposes or sale, And how to combat substance abuse and life ruin caused by addiction and children's access to them if they're made fully legal.

Weed and psychedelics, sure other shit not sure, focus on treatment and prevention instead of war on drugs shit, some of the high level drug trafficking organizations need some level of violence to be dismantled

Drugs are already legal. The system would collapse without caffeine, alcohol, other stimulants, not to mention spiritual opium like TV and video games, screens in general.

>>2501575
God you're such a faggot

I support limited legalization for some drugs which are presently banned by the U.S. MDMA, psilocybin, DMT, etc. should not be criminal to possess, sell, or use at all. What should be criminal is the industrial level mass-production, marketing, and pharmaceutical branding of them.

I support restricting these particular drugs entirely to the gray market, where it is completely illegal for the criminals who mass produced and marketed oxycodone to be involved. The pharmaceutical companies should be cut out entirely. The sale of MDMA, psilocybin, DMT, and other "lighter" "hard" drugs should be restricted entirely to small dealers and producers. The sale of heroin, fentanyl, oxycodone, methamphetamine, and some other drugs for recreational purposes would remain illegal. Individuals who lacked job opportunities and sold drugs because they had no other way to reliably make that kind of income will be given a monopoly on sale of the "less bad" recreational drugs like empathogens and psychedelics, and the large scale pharmaceutical companies will not be allowed to out-compete them. Those who sell drugs in general illicitly today will thusly have an incentive to reduce risk (to themselves) by not selling more addictive drugs, and will be able to openly sell drugs like MDMA and make more money doing that.

The legalization of these drugs flatly today would be a major handout to corrupt pharmaceutical companies, and would increase risk by allowing them to be pitched as "cures," or, potentially, marketed like alcohol and cigarettes if they are legalized for recreational use in a similar way to those other currently legal drugs. It would be a slap in the face to all those who were wrongly imprisoned or killed for selling substances which the government lied about. Gray market only for some substances but not others is the way to go.

While I think that recreational sale of drugs like opiates and methamphetamine should remain illegal, usage of them should be met with treatment, not criminalization. Broadly, we need massive jobs programs and economic reforms to drive down the price of necessities by discouraging rentseeking, and this will help to reduce the slide of the population into nihilistic hedonism. There are some people who don't understand, or pretend not to understand, the kind of impact it has on people's lives when they look at their prospects, see no hope, and just say "fuck it." Also guys like Richard Sackler need to be imprisoned for life, arguably shot.

Also I'm not here to debate how spooky and dangerous any of these drugs is. Just giving my 2 cents on policy, thanks. My views on the drugs themselves are informed by years of knowledge and experience.

imho weed tier drugs should be in state owned shops and even some harder drugs should also be in state owned shops but similar to car or gun there will be rigorous background checks and extensive classes on pharmacology and harm reduction to get a license. If you wanna sip lean or pop molly your gonna have to go to a tiny amount of med school first basically. However meth-heroin tier stuff should still be banned w/o war on drugs retardation. Also doing the cigarette carton gore but as a full mural on the side of the store as a PSA.

Narcotics are illegal in Communism

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>>2501632
>the ussr wasn't real communism because people were alcoholic

For starters, weed and psychedelics should 100% be legalized, bare minimum. There's no fucking good reason to treat them like they're on the same level as meth, crack, and heroin. I also think the growing, processing, and sale of these substances should be done by local co-operatives that are collectively managed and owned by their workers, with help and some oversight from people's councils & committees whenever necessary. As for the others, I personally lean more towards decriminalization for personal use, with an emphasis on rehab & safe use facilities for those who do any of the harder stuff, and those who get addicted or just otherwise wanna go clean. While only state-owned stores scattered across the nation should be able to legally sell these substances to members of the public; the sales of which are also highly regulated and the dangers of which are thoroughly disclosed to the buyer before any sales and on the product packaging itself.

Prevention, as prior anons have pointed out, is also a key factor to actually curb down on drug use. There needs to be a focus on providing stability and a meaning in life for people by bringing on a whole slew of economic reforms and public programs and by keeping a well-funded and well-maintained social safety net, and also one on removing the profit motive within healthcare and the pharmaceutical industry so that there's no repeat of the bullshit that happened with, say, for example: Oxycontin and its overprescription's eventual & inevitable explosion into the opioid crisis.

>>2501635
There were no alcoholics in the USSR. Alcoholics commit crimes like hooliganism, violation of Communist workplace ordinance and family neglect, and end up in the gulag, reforming them and curing their alcoholism

>>2501715
You contradict yourself since you admit the narcotic was legal.


>>2501730
Wrong. Official Communist alcohol and Communist cigarettes are not narcotics. Narcotics like marijuana and moonshine are illegal in Communism to make superfluous the material condition that alcoholism and drug addiction are predicated upon.

>>2501730
Wrong, alcool was banned under communism until 1925 when stalin restaures capitalism

>>2501737
Alchohol was legal so you did contradict yourself.


>>2501623
>However meth-heroin tier stuff should still be banned w/o war on drugs retardation.
No it should be permitted under supervision in a controlled environment, specifically it must be for clinical trials and chemical research. A suicide free way to approach them while still being beneficial to development since each experiment will follow up with detox and no volunteers would develop an uncontrollable habit.

>>2501755
thats not unreasonable, they still keep smallpox around for research purposes after all

>>2501778
Your baits are boring and only clutter, Rule 14 - a) through g)

There's no reason for weed to be illegal. Alcohol should probably be more restricted than it already is, but I don't support a ban, especially not an immediate ban. Cigarrettes as they are should be banned, but they could be changed to be purer tobacco and maybe be allowed then, though more restricted. I don't know enough about psychedelics to have an opinion on them. Vapes should be banned. Harder drugs should be banned, obviously. Coffee is fine.

Weed, absolutely should be legal.
In many jurisdictions it was only outlawed because the alcohol and tobacco lobbies feared competition and that it would take their market share, as if people wouldn't smoke weed and drink together LOL.
Psychedelics so long as you don't have schizophrenia or something similar or a very high risk for it.
Personally I'd trust myself with coke but it's too high risk to be legalised to the public at large.
Meth and opioids? No way.
No ket either because we don't need a nation of people who need diapers by the time they're middle aged.

It shouldn't be illegal to kill yourself with drugs.

It should be illegal to kill other people with drugs.

>>2501603
Screen addict detected

legalize everything including coke and heroin, this is harm reduction

as someone who lives in south america I prefer to see more junkies passing out in the streets than letting the narcos have more power, narcos fuck up everything.

drugs are bad

>>2502110
You're unscientific and undialectical

I would probably put some type of consumption cap and continued medical monitoring for users, especially with opiates, meth, cocaine, and psychedelics

>>2502446
There should be a consumption cap for everything regardless under a planned economy, hard to imagine that even under a socialized world that some cunts won't just hoard and accumulate shit just because money is not a factor.

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>>2501570
>>2501659
A lot of psychedelics are still technically legal if you live in America or most other Western countries. There are various legal LSD analogs like 1P-LSD, and most of the tryptamines that Alexander Shulgin invented haven't been banned yet.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TiHKAL

alcohol and benzos should be illegal
everything else legal

In lower level socialism they should be decriminalized for harm-prevention.
In higher level socialism and communism all drugs (including alcohol) will be illegal for recreational usage.
And maybe create a safe psychodelics with no side effects, not possible at the moment but maybe in the future with socialism/communist tech.

>>2508083
>In higher level socialism and communism all drugs (including alcohol) will be illegal for recreational usage.
why do some people think socialism is about imposing as law their current moral stances on cultural issues? the people living under socialism will decide what they prefer, not some retard on leftypol wanking to his reactionary nofun tendencies

>>2501568
>Do you support making drugs legal?
yes

>To what limit and why or why not?

usual shit like minimum age, regulated sales, limited max quantity, high taxes, accompany with health professionals/prevention
simply because its just playing with your brain chemistry to have fun and make social interactions easier, the main problem is health and addiction (and people doing stupid shit), but all these problem are easier fought if its legal. People are simply very spooked on this question.

>And how to combat substance abuse and life ruin caused by addiction and children's access to them if they're made fully legal

its actually a lot easier to combat this if the drugs are legal, as science has shown that repression is shit at dealing with it while prevention, free healthcare and addiction specialist, safe spaces for drugs users work well

>>2508100
>moral stances
It is a matter of public health, not morality.
I said in my post that we will get drugs with no side-effects in the future.

>>2508014
>benzos

>>2501568
Drug dealers should be given a death sentence. Alcohol and tobacco should be greatly restricted if not fully prohibited as well.

>>2508223
>Drug dealers should be given a death sentence.
Doesn't work. How many times have we been over this now?

>>2508225
If it's effective or not doesnt matter. it's what is deserved for peddling death, addiction, and dependence to disadvantaged people.

>>2508083
instead of this kind of declaration you could just say the need for drug abuse will wither away as peoples needs are met

>>2508567
never going to happen when these unscientific chauvinists dumbfucks conflate use with abuse

>>2508568
very true and i thought of that when i said it but couldn't think of a better word

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>>2508223
All trade / deals will be done away with under a planned economy. Prohibition of tobacco and alchohol coming from an irish nationalist catholic flag shows me you have to be a religious subhuman a reactionary, we'll kill you first and never prohibit any drug, we'll murder all the WODiggers and religious.
>>2508232
Drugs are life, medicine, pharmacology, science, chemistry, rape all the catholic & religious men and women and kill them for stagnating science and human development for a millenia. Murder and rape all of you nationalist liberal vermin. Addiction never has been as big a problem as you made it out to be, religious retardation ruins brains, drug use comes with responsibility, death to all prohibitionists, death to all WODiggers, rape murder and piss on irish gobshites, infect your people with genetically modified disease and bring you famine.

>>2508589
Drugiggers should all be drawn and quartered while being raped by bears. An hero, drugigger.

There wont be a need for drugs under socialism

>>2508225
Go tell that to China

>>2508567
Drug usage will mostly wither away too, so if most of the people won't be using them, why not ban them for the small number of people who would try them anyways? Never give them the option to OD or have a psychosis (drugs are addictive).

>>2508568
I don't only want to prevent abuse, I also want to prevent use.

>>2508760
Drug use is good, I want to prevent you from living.

>>2508620
No we won't but you will be raped by elephants WODigger, end yourself before its too late.

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unlimited genocide on WODiggers. under communism everyone will be high all the time and there will be people's dispensaries for recreational bath salts and PCP.

>>2508762
You won't be able to if you are convulsing on the floor.

>>2508767
I won't be, pray to the cartel they won't upload you on watchpeopledie after

>>2508768
I thought we were speaking about socialism, and there won't be cartels under socialism.
Why do you want to fuck your head and organs instead of waiting for the super safe and advanced communist psychedelics? Why do you have to have such a harmful "hobby" at the expense of the whole society?

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The fate of all WODIggers, drug prohibitionists acting tough giving threats to drug users and producers. You threaten us then wonder why we would bring up cartels? >>2508769(USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST)

Drugs are legal, but they’re only the ones that numb you out

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Death to all dogs of the WOD, drug prohibitionists, stigmatizers, a dog's death to a dog. Forever will live drug users and producers, science chemistry and botany.

>>2508775
The cartel will dissapear when the profit motif has gone, when needs and demands are satisfied, have your WOD until you're ready to concede.

>>2508775
Death to all AES and Lenin!

>>2508780
Lenin is long dead, alive he may have been smart enough not to tamper with drug producers and users, too bad his followers have shit for brains.

in all seriousness though I really hope you faggots ITT realize that

- the whole history of the war on drugs is a proxy to class war and continue slavery in the US through the imprisonment of Black Americans over minor drug possession offenses
- drug scheduling is completely arbitrary and has nothing to do with how harmful or addictive a substance is (fucking weed is Schedule I while benzos are Schedule III) and that it has everything to do with pharma company vested interests
- that psychedelics are Schedule I because they reliably induce experiences that would make many people feel far less inclined to waste their lives working as wage slaves
- that drug cartels are mostly a made up thing
- that the actual history of the drug trade moving serious weight was mostly done by the CIA to simultaneously fund far-right terrorism in Nicaragua and do an indirect form of genocide against Black Americans.

>>2508805
I don't think anyone here thinks capitalist war on drugs is a positive thing.
I don't know why I was called a WODigger.

>>2508810
Prohibition is prohibition regardless of the mode of production its done in. Drug prohibition can only be reactionary and serve as a rejection of planning, why must consumers and producers be seperated as to deprive experimentation and personal utilization when you can't get inside a person's mind? Social conservative "communists" don't know anything they simply believe to know whats best for others and neglect science, chemistry, botany while coddling up to muslim, christian and other feudal superstitions, the contradictions show they are incompetent and too retarded to be able to say what drugs are beneficiary and what are harmful.

>>2508816
no one talks about this unless you're yourself a drug nerd or researcher but as far back as 2006 there's been a whole psychedelic renaissance with all sorts of studies confirming what had already been known early into the history of LSD before it was scheduled: psychedelic substances (and stuff like ketamine that are technically a different class) have incredibly powerful therapeutic potential. unlike the sorts of legal psychoactive drugs like SSRIs that are prescribed by psychiatrists in the US, psychedelics don't treat the symptoms of mental illness (e.g. adjusting your brain chemical levels to some normative standard) but actually have the ability to cure mental illnesses. there's huge amounts of research into the potential for things like psilocybin, LSD, and MDMA to treat things like PTSD and addiction, and ketamine and DXM are both powerful antidepressants. we know neurologically that psychedelics induce neurogenesis and can make the brain form new synapses that essentially heal things like trauma on the literal physical level of reshaping your grey matter.

it's actually anti-scientific reactionary nonsense to be against legalization, even notwithstanding the whole history of the WOD being essentially the new war on communism after the Cold War ended. it's also nonsense to argue that there are certain classes of drugs that are inherently bad and others that are good, because generally people don't do drugs for the sole purpose of hurting themselves because they're just stupid and being tricked by pushers or something. most opioid addiction for instance originates in people having chronic pain or getting major surgeries, and of course the opioid crisis was created by pharma companies, who are the real pushers because they use the edifice of arbitrary drug laws to trick people into thinking that something is inherently safe medicine if it's legal and has no medical value if it's illegal.

WOD shit is actually one of the stupidest reactionary taboos that we've inherited from AmeriKKKa's puritanical history and it should be ruthlessly critiqued on many fronts.

>>2508816
Since the beggining of humanity drugs have been used, but the conclusion WODiggers come to is not "drugs are necessary / needed", its that "societal norms have changed" so they must conserve a "normality" they themselves fabricated. None of them can admit drugs / narocotics are necessary for the health of the species, pharmacology, scientific development, the development of chemistry and botany since they wish to restrict users and deprive them of the responsibility in the name of "health" by attacking their health. It is nothing more than the same fad as saying "homosexuality is degenerate", "drugs are degenerate" this is the Stalinist/Maoist way to get off since they cannot attack orientations as much anymore, they have to find another marginal. Its too bad this marginal is way more dangerous than any other group and can actively spread to no longer be a marginal.

>>2508816
>why must consumers and producers be seperated as to deprive experimentation and personal utilization when you can't get inside a person's mind?
Because they are harmful (some almost harmless like fungi but many are very harmful, if not physically then psychologically) and addictive.

>they are incompetent and too retarded to be able to say what drugs are beneficiary and what are harmful

I know they can be useful, that's why I said for recreational usage.

>>2508820
>>2508827
How is fentanyl necessary for the health of the species.
Degeneracy is not something real unlike health.

>>2508829
>How is fentanyl necessary for the health of the species.
Here is an example of you being an unscientific dumbfuck, a show of incompetence that demonstrates you are in no way legible to speak on the topic of drugs. Fentanyl is used medicially as an anasthetic for surgeries. You will now shift the goalpost to "fentanyl users" since i disproved that fentanyl is not some kind of absolute evil that must be destroyed, it is a necessary drug for medicine, medicinal fentanyl is a necessary anasthetic for surgeries.

>>2508833
Are you retarded? I already said I am talking about recreational usage.
flood detected

>>2508851
Nobody intentionally does fentanyl recreationally other than people who are already suicidal and may as well resort to other means such as sticking a hose onto their car's exhaust, going inside and turning it on but you cant prohibit cars can you?. You dishonest piece of shit. You want to blame drug users who seek drugs but end up with fentanyl mixed because of the lack of quality control from the WOD despite 90% of the world being drug users seeking desired effect, excluding caffeine, tobacco and alchohol for no reason other than to propagade the exact same agenda of the WOD started by Nixon as to attempt at a distinction on pseudoscience.

>>2501819

To elaborate on my position, I think human bodily autonomy should be an inalienable fundamental right. Junkies and drunks are going to hurt themselves with drugs and they have the right to do that; society just has to deal with the ramifications and do everything it can not to enable their self-destructive behavior. When they rob or kill other people because of their addiction they have to pay the price just like any other criminal, but criminalizing the addiction itself is neither sensible nor ethical. It only further alienates them from society and makes their addictions worse, and their addiction is not a moral failing to be punished, it is a disease.

Drug distributors on the other hand, whether they be black market dope dealers on the street or legitimate multinational pharmaceutical companies, are outside the jurisdiction of bodily autonomy. They are selling products to other people that are dangerous and addictive and can kill them if they use too much or if the potency suddenly increases or the drugs are contaminated somehow, they are taking a risk endangering other people's lives to make profit and therefore they must be held accountable for that.

I don't get why people want drugs (apart from chemical addiction). Engaging in fiction is just as effective in making you feel fulfilled whilst being much more productive and helpful for you. Obviously opiods should be given on prescription to addicts since they need it to live normally, but apart from that, or maybe stimulants for soldiers so they can more effectively fight the bourgeois forces, I don't see why any drug would be needed in socialist society.

However, selling drugs is a good way way of gaining a revenue for the revolutionary vanguard.

>>2508856
90% of the world population uses drugs, you live with cognitive dissonance and false consciousness since you still believe the lies of the war on drugs started by Richard Nixon and have no interest in science, chemistry and botany other than science as a rhetoric to promote your ideological secft. You are unscientific. People do not use drugs to simply "engage in fiction", all drugs have different effects, recreational use can vary tremendiously from substance to substance. Most drug users are functional. Dysfunctional drug users are a byproduct of a lack of a safe envinronment caused by prohibition and stigmatization that affects their employment status.
At the very least you're open to the idea of engaging with drugs, even if its not because you recognize their necessity, but to promote your ideological sect.

>>2508856

I'm mentally ill and I don't want drugs, I *need* drugs, just like a person with bad eyesight needs glasses or a person with no legs needs a wheelchair.

>>2508855
There is no way for you to cut the link between producers and consumers without retalliation. By your logic people selling knives are complicit in murder.

>>2508861

It's not really about cutting the link, it's about minimizing the damage that the drug producers cause to society. People selling knives aren't a major disruptive force in modern society.

>>2508864
Drug producers cause no damage. Again you cannot explain how it is any different from anyone producing anything else that can result in harm or injury.

>>2508852
Why are you bringing suicide? I might as well say recreational ketamine which is not lethal.

>You want to blame drug users

Why do you think I want to put them on prisions?
A rehabilitation program would work, and this only in advanced socialism, in the lower stages I said I want them to be decriminalised FOR RECREATIONAL USAGE.

>you cant prohibit cars can you

When we finally have every street with multiple CCTV and if someone tries to suicide with their car it will be disabled remotely.

>>2508860
>>2508858
Why are you so obtuse?
Nobody here is speaking about drugs used for medical reasons.

>>2508870
The responsibility is on the user, quality control depends on society, as long as there is demand there is supply, long live the union of producers and users and long live it will as long as humans and sentient beings exist.
>A rehabilitation program would work,
Rehabilitation only works for those who want it. There is nothing to rehab with responsibile drug users who are 90% of the population and functioning, rehabilitate yourself dumb WODigger.
>When we finally have every street with multiple CCTV and if someone tries to suicide with their car it will be disabled remotely.
Even here you fail, even in your made up scenario, since such suicides are commited at home in the garage.
Death upon you and your WODigger kind.

>>2508870
>Nobody here is speaking about drugs used for medical reasons.
Recreational use is medical and transhumanist (altering human cognition and bodily function). I dont need to go to a specialized clinic to do shrooms to know they are beneficiary. You on the other hand don't even think such a thing is beneficiary since you're unscientific.

No but you shouldn't become a cotton picking state slave for it as well.

>>2508873
>You on the other hand don't even think such a thing is beneficiary
They are a time-waster, you could get better past times like sport which keep you healthy or an intellectual hobby instead of zoning out in your couch for 8 hours or roaming the streets seeing things and speaking alone and disrupting the other people with your hallucinations.

>Recreational use is transhumanist

So?

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>>2508870
>bro we're gonna let you smoke and do LSD but then we gotta put you into prison a rehab program whether you like it or not
You sure you're gonna do that?

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>>2508876
>you could get better past times like sport which keep you healthy

>>2508878
I already said decriminalization and rehabilitation would go in different stages of socialism.
Has weed fucked your memory so bad that you can't remember a full sentence after reading it?

>>2508881
Watching football is not a sport, I meant doing exercise/a sport, it was my mistake, sorry.

>>2508883
Rehabiliate yourself dumb WODigger, still ranting on about weed users lmao.
>>2508883
>Watching football is not a sport, I meant doing exercise/a sport, it was my mistake, sorry.
I can give you an excersize, tell me which retarded MLoid social club you're in so that one day when I'm done with it all I can come in and start shooting.

>>2508878
The zapatistas were doing WOD btw, they prohibited them. Don't you see? They are literally the same as the CIA!

>>2508886
Wait before you say let me guess, the KKE probably. They're on my bucket list for the tour, care to add to it?

>>2508887
They got what they called for lol

>>2508886
>>2508890
I seldom leave my house and I am not greek.

>>2508891
So they should've just let the mexican government fill them with drugs? That way they would've had a better time defending themselves, right?

>>2508894
They had no chance to begin with, a stupid natlib autonomist movement like them gave up the armed struggle decades ago (San Andrés Accords), All that indigineous retarded culture and catholic nonsense must've made them forget their place.

>>2508895
I got carried on sorry, they had no change to begin with yeah.

>>2508865
>Drug producers cause no damage. Again you cannot explain how it is any different from anyone producing anything else that can result in harm or injury.

Well, it's a matter of degree. Technologies tend to become more powerful and disruptive as history progresses. Our society doesn't allow people to enrich uranium without strict authorization and supervision from the federal government because otherwise people would be building nuclear warheads and blowing up cities. Seems reasonable to me.

Drugs are a powerful technology, they save millions of lives, and they also destroy millions of lives, it is society's imperative to ensure that this technology is used carefully and responsibily for the benefit of society and not for its destruction.

>>2508760
>>2508769
>instead of waiting for the super safe and advanced communist psychedelic
>why not ban them for the small number of people who would try them anyways?
?

>>2508992
You can't have sex until the revolution comes or something

they should be regulated. u wanna drink alcohol or smoke tobacco or weed or lsd go ahead. but you should require a prescription to get access to dangerous shit like oxycodone. or better yet it should only be used under supervision of a doctor in a hospital.

ban cocaine because only yuppies do cocaine and i hate yuppies

>>2508827
animals eat drugs too. they get the urge to consume "poisonous" plants to help with ailments. i would even go the other way from normal people and say lots of food is drugs.

>>2508829
>many are very harmful
pretty much just benzos and alcohol. the danger from opiates cocaine and meth comes from inconstancy in purity and financial problems from addiction. wealthy people can be completely functional crackheads or use heroine and back in the day non-ADD people would do meth for work, famously Paul Erdos the most ever cited mathematician would take dex when working on proofs. obviously thats not an endorsement for everyone to go smoke crack cause they probably dont have the social support he did.

>>2509002
Yes I'm waiting

My take is that if you've ever had friends or people very close to you go through seriously fucked up addiction problems, you would understand that regulation is absolutely necessary to prevent needless death.

Legal? yeah duh. But HIGHLY regulated for the drugs that are absolutely fucked. Hell, even alcohol is hell on earth for alcoholics, and it's right there for them to buy. My ex was obliterated by alcoholism, and I prayed to a god I don't believe in every day that she would come out of that hell. It was so fucked up man.

So yeah fuck any anarchist who thinks everything should be completely unregulated and laissez faire just on principle. Addiction is NOT a choice the vast majority of the time. And the worst drugs have hardly any positives, while decimating the lives of innocents for generations.

>>2508805
>psychedelics are Schedule I because they reliably induce experiences that would make many people feel far less inclined to waste their lives working as wage slaves

reminder

https://www.psymposia.com/magazine/lucy-in-the-sky-with-nazis-psychedelics-and-the-right-wing/

https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/search/text/lsd%20made%20me%20racist/

wasnt there some kind of new word to replace 'psychedelic' that means like confirmation bias?

>>2509006

Clearly the issue is not the behavior itself but the ramifications of how technological advancements alter the scale of the behavior.

An example would be the indigienous population of the Americas before the arrive of European settlers. Drugs and alcohol were used extensively by every indigenous tribe, but it wasn't a social problem because they didn't have the technology to mass produce these powerful intoxicants in such quantities that it would have a major effect on their society. It wasn't until the industrial European settlers arrived that the indigenous people were introduced to the Europeans' mass-produced distilled liquor and then suddenly substance abuse became not only a huge social problem for the indigenous people, but it became a blight on their society that destroyed their culture and it still does to this day.


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