completeki said:so they didnt go to the hippy fest for the music?
lacey k said:The funniest thing i seen in one of these threads is that in a similar thread a while back, someones signature was "If you trebmle at the thought of any injustice, then you are in company with me" or some shit pretty much exactly in those words, and he was saying "Whoops, too bad, do your time you deserve it. Cant change the law pissing and moaning wont help just deal with it cuz thats the way it is."
Indelibleface said:It's so sick. It's not dirty, bathtub-made methamphetamine. It's spiritual, mind-expanding LSD, for christ's sake. How one could put it on the same, or even lower level than some of the dirtiest, ego-fueling drugs out there is way beyond me. What a waste. Sometimes I can't believe our society is so backwards.
Liric said:Government agencies experimented with psychedelics before anyone else did, they know what this drug is capable of and that is why they will go to any means to stop its use.
My point being that making an appeal to reason based on the nature of the drug's effect on health is useless, LSD threatens western society (ie the power structure) in a much more fundamental way.
davesoviet said:Those government agencies who experimented with psychedelics consisted of people who rejected scientific method and came up with biased experiments based on their biased views.
It's the government. They can't do anything right. And they're second only to fundamental religious institutions in getting everything wrong.
I'd really like to see a legitimate scientific study that suggests that taking LSD will cause people to become political revolutionaries fighting the system.
Liric said:They do not want these drugs on the street because their use undermines faith in conventional values of civic duty, economic gain, and material acquisition.
If your point is that not everyone who turns on really "turns on" so to speak, then that's certainly true. Many, if not most, people lack either the intellectual capacity or the depth of character to recognize the experience as more than a 10-hour light show. However it's impossible to explain the cultural shift of the late 60s without LSD. Psychedelics are not guaranteed to wake people up, but when distributed to a general population they will catalyze individuals given to critical examination of the values we live by as a society.