Descarte Yee
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Imagine not taking psychedelics to improve your cognitive functionsWillfully crippling your cognitive functions is cringe.
I can't believe how overlooked the dopamine epidemic is.nuke the internet, then legalize the drugs.
i mean, legalize them anyway but do both and we're good to go. dopamine addiction is as dangerous as any of them.
Yes, yes, I know, the CIA filled America's black neighborhoods with crack cocaine to start a high-stakes race war.Create an army of doped up super soldiers to terrorize the streets and get drugs OUT OF OUR NEIGHBORHOODS
Imagine walking up to the local pharmacist and being like "1 pint of Promethazine with Codeine". DJ Screw would be proudmy hometown's gone to shit not because of drugs, but because of drug trafficking. if people could just buy drugs at a pharmacy I truly believe the world would be a better place.
Definitely agree with you on the over education part. Take what I'm about to say with a grain of salt as I was told this by a few people and don't really know how true this is but things like DARE weren't designed to work in every place. It was really meant for communities where drugs are already a huge problem so when they brought it over to rural and suburban areas all it did was teach kids who had no previous exposure to these drugs about them (making it completely fucking pointless)I think marijuana and magic mushrooms (psilocybin) should be legalized recreationally completely. Where I live, you can put a marijuana user in prison for the same amount of time as a child predator. This logic is ridiculous. Also, I think the war on drugs is worthless due to the fact that it only educated the public more on drugs, how to identify them, and how to cultivate them. Adderall is readily prescribed by doctors, but its apparently a felony to use a plant that is found in nature.
The issue in the US is that the "War on Drugs" actually had nothing to do with removing dangerous or illicit goods from the people.I was always baffled by the aftermath of the war on drug. While I do not live in the USA, the prime directive of drugs being unheathy was always seen as common sense where I live. The fact that I see many people openly talk about taking illicit substance online is very strange to me. I understand that people are always going to partake in illegal activities, but talking about it openly on the internet seems very unwise to me.
As for myself, I refuse to take any mind-altering substance as it can make me do some unwanted actions and says some things I could regret afterwards. It includes the following:
On a site note, as someone whose first language is not english, the term "drugstore" always perplexed me. I understand that it is just another term for pharmacy and that medcine could technically be considered a form of drug, but still. I find it somewhat ironic that a governement would ban and then proceed to make stores with the name "drugstores".
- Any drugs
- Alchool
- Tea
- Any form of "alternate medcine"
- Any form of tobacoo
- Whatever is contained within "vapes"
- Consuming powery substances
I see. From a canadian point of view, the USA seems truly dystopian at times.The issue in the US is that the "War on Drugs" actually had nothing to do with removing dangerous or illicit goods from the people.
See, in the 60's, the CIA began trading arms for cocaine with South America, and those bricks of cocaine were shipped straight to the US. A variant, known as crack (crack cocaine), was then peddled throughout poor and black communities. It was sold to people as a "cool, "fun" drug and a way for poor people to make quick money selling it on the street. Then, shortly after, Ronald Regan began the "War on Drugs" because of the rise in "dangerous drug interest".
In reality, this just gave law enforcement excuses to abuse black communities. If police officers "suspected" a young black man of possessing any amount of any illicit drugs (crack, marijuana, etc), they were thusly legally backed to beat, arrest, and steal any property the black man had on them. Police were protected by the law, thanks to the initiatives put in place by the "War on Drugs". This is part of the vitriol behind it in the US. Something like possession of marijuana is considered a 'victimless crime', because it does not require you impeding on someone else's rights. Yet, people who were caught in possession of things like Marijuana and Crack were receiving larger prison sentences than people who had committed crimes such as burglary and homicide. To top this off, in the US, you are legally allowed to exploit prisoners as slave labor, and since prisons were privatized, it incentivized putting away as many people for as long as possible.
So, the "War on Drugs" is a misnomer and a term purposefully used to obfuscate the real issue behind the matter.