End of prohibtion in sight?

[Foreigner]

I think it will be research organizations like MAPS who make it increasingly socially acceptable to talk about illicit drugs, given all the discoveries being made about therapeutic benefits. As a multi-step approach, it would make more sense for schedule I drugs to be rescheduled to a lesser severity, until they are gradually legalized.

I don't necessarily agree that we need to wait for the U.S. before we go ahead with this. Portugal and Spain, countries that are relatively small in the grand scheme, have broken with the anti-drug line. It just takes a few to start forming a bloc.

Don't forget that UN drug policy is basically U.S. drug policy. The UN is America's platform for global domination via the policy departments. The UN references the U.S. and vice versa whenever this issue comes up. It will be necessary for countries to break the line in order for positive revolution to happen.

The U.S. is not a global hegemon despite its propaganda. Places like Canada and Mexico would have a far harder time legalizing drugs given their proximity to the beast, but farther away places are under less influence.

 

[Si Dread]

The U.S. is not a global hegemon despite its propaganda. Places like Canada and Mexico would have a far harder time legalizing drugs given their proximity to the beast, but farther away places are under less influence.

It might seem like the US is the big beast in this matter but the US is a loose affiliation of states, all of which have differing attitudes to different drugs. Even in the US there are different demographics being affected by drugs law in different ways. The US states that have recently voted to allow marijuana to be smoked recreationally are, to the best of my knowledge, the only places in the world that have done so. In every other case the country in question (Holland, Spain, Portugal etc) has simply chosen to ignore the laws against Marijuana for the sake of the greater good, rather than change the law on paper & risk allienating themselves from the rest of the International community.

So yeah, on the one hand it's America's grip on global socio-economics that inhibits some countries from liberalising their drugs economies, but on the other they are over-turning their own long held laws against marijuana, opening I suspect an opportunity to discuss further steps towards generalised legalisation.

 

[pinkpapaver]

It's funny isn't it? That fella that wrote the book of revelations was probably under the influence of something to see all that stuff that he saw yet all these mad christian types are mad against drugs but it's not OK for anyone else to take them.

 

[Shambles]

Patmos is kinda famous for it's high quality fungal Goodnesses... and having precious lil else to eat

But no - not all Xtians are so enamoured of the idea

 

[pinkpapaver]

"ah, but drugs can't cause group hallucinations" no, but lots of people taking the drug can cause hallucinations. Oh dear. People will just believe what they want to believe I suppose even when it defies all logic. What's more likely that the almighty spoke to people and gave them visions or they took stuff that gave them visions.

 

[Shambles]

Also, drugs can cause group hallucinations.

 

[xTalK]

telepathic acid trips :

 

[Dioxy]

telepathic acid trips :

I'm waiting patiently for the day that we can observe and quantify the ways in which our minds interact during psychedelic experiences.

Ketamine and LSD are both luxurious in that respect.

Meanwhile I will continue to conduct unscientific experiments :D

 

[ricardo08]

In sight, maybe not, but we're on the right track.

Have a petition. It's not much, but it's something.

 

[MrPorter]

Of course, if the present pricing structure for drugs were maintained, the unimaginably enormous profits could be used to help alleviate world poverty.

You raise a lot of really good points, but I felt the need to highlight this one. Do you think most of the profit/tax would go to the producers or the government, or would the producers be a government department? I mean there will be plenty of tax anyway, but I can't see a chemicals producer using the money for ethical goodness but for scientific development. Which is a shame because if we took the profits, removed the amount for developing a proper addicts/rehab kind of service, there would be enough left to probably buy houses for everyone on the streets in uk... from just a weeks sales.