Antiprosynthesis
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Since even before the first civilizations drugs played a prominent, essential and important role in our lives - even more so, even animals use certain plants to in a more sufficient way survive, like certain plants that help fight infection, which in fact is medicine and meds are drugs and even to this day medicine plays a huge part in our lives - but more specifically from at least the earlyist civilizations psychoactive drugs played an essential role in society and even was even attributed supernatural qualities; psychoactive drugs were used as medicin like opium as a painkiller and in all sorts of rituals - African hottentots snorting Kanna to engage in battle, SA rituals to enter the realm of the Gods or Cannabis used to restore the peace, as well as purely recreational use of drugs like alcohol in the days of the Roman empire, or functional use of Coca leaves to have more energy to make way over harsh terrain and to prevent high altitude sickness, and so on...
In the 19th century drugs were still legal, they only became illegal somewhere in the first half of the 20th century, and there were Opium bars where one could sit back and enjoy a pipe, Cocaine was prescribed by doctors even to children and Coca was present in lots of candy and both alcoholic as non alcoholic beverages, and so on...
It seems absurd to me to after thousands of yrs being not only normal and generally accepted but being considered essential to our lives that all of a sudden certain drugs have become not just stigmatized but even criminalized... Drugs are a way of expierincing a wider range of emotions, thoughts and give rise to insights and can bring about a more open minded attitude and create a sense of oneness and can create a more critical mind and so on... In this lies a transcendental value, drugs carry a value that goes beyond simply hedonism, and even in pure hedonism this value is present, since I truly believe ppl need ways of experiencing euphoria, numb pain and suffering and give us a break from the narrowminded view of what reality is without drugs...
Im not sure to what extent the following argument is a solid one or actually is false reasoning, but we in a way seem programmed to use drugs since if we wouldnt have specific receptors, like for example the cannabinoid receptors, we wouldnt feel a thing from these drugs, but like I said perhaps could be argued this is false reasoning since these substances and affinity structures are present in all of nature, but why I dont consider it to be false reasoning is that if something is so overwhelming present in nature it must have (great) significance...
Thats why I consider drugs to be a primal, natural right and making drug use a criminal act to be itself a criminal act...
This in short my philosophy regarding drugs...
In the 19th century drugs were still legal, they only became illegal somewhere in the first half of the 20th century, and there were Opium bars where one could sit back and enjoy a pipe, Cocaine was prescribed by doctors even to children and Coca was present in lots of candy and both alcoholic as non alcoholic beverages, and so on...
It seems absurd to me to after thousands of yrs being not only normal and generally accepted but being considered essential to our lives that all of a sudden certain drugs have become not just stigmatized but even criminalized... Drugs are a way of expierincing a wider range of emotions, thoughts and give rise to insights and can bring about a more open minded attitude and create a sense of oneness and can create a more critical mind and so on... In this lies a transcendental value, drugs carry a value that goes beyond simply hedonism, and even in pure hedonism this value is present, since I truly believe ppl need ways of experiencing euphoria, numb pain and suffering and give us a break from the narrowminded view of what reality is without drugs...
Im not sure to what extent the following argument is a solid one or actually is false reasoning, but we in a way seem programmed to use drugs since if we wouldnt have specific receptors, like for example the cannabinoid receptors, we wouldnt feel a thing from these drugs, but like I said perhaps could be argued this is false reasoning since these substances and affinity structures are present in all of nature, but why I dont consider it to be false reasoning is that if something is so overwhelming present in nature it must have (great) significance...
Thats why I consider drugs to be a primal, natural right and making drug use a criminal act to be itself a criminal act...
This in short my philosophy regarding drugs...
