Legalizing drugs discussion thread #42.

[Diogenes]

Because the answer is "42."


42 threads dealing with the issue of why we need to legalize drugs, that is.

[choff]

You sure this isn't overdoing it a bit much?

[JLawson]

Because the answer is "42."

"How many roads must a man walk down?"

(Apologies to Douglas Adams...)

[Diogenes]

You sure this isn't overdoing it a bit much?

That depends on whether or not I make my point. "Overdoing it" is precisely the issue as relates to this topic which monopolizes the bandwidth on this forum.



More important issues go begging while we have to be constantly confronted with our apostasy and blasphemy against the Holy Church of the green leaf.


This stupid issue ought to be number 42 on the list of things sane people ought to be worrying about.

[Diogenes]

Funny how the most tyrannical regime on the planet permits this "freedom."


Marijuana AND Crystal Meth Legal in North Korea?

Reports from the trickle of western visitors to North Korea consistently indicate that cannabis is actually widely tolerated in the Hermit Kingdom- in fact, it's not even considered a drug there. Travelers speak of pot growing wildly by the side of the road, sold, rolled, and smoked openly- right in the heart of the most repressive Stalinist regime on Earth...

But it's not all for export, this story gets a lot weirder:- meth (known as orum, or 'ice') is also widely tolerated for personal use in North Korea- in fact, a 'little sniff' is commonly offered as a greeting to visitors in many private homes as casually as we would offer a tea or coffee(!) Stories of whole families getting through famines by smoking a little meth are not uncommon.

Given all this, it's wise to assume KPA soldiers -if we ever have to face them- will be all cranked-up on methamphetamine -feeling no pain- and looking for some hand-to-hand combat (with a knife in their teeth). After all, that's what the Nazis invented meth for in the first place.

http://reaganiterepublicanresistance.bl ... ml#_/exjun_


Legalized drugs, and freedom didn't break out everywhere? Whodda thunk?

[Diogenes]

Deposition:
Testimony Concerning a Sickness
by William S. Burroughs (1959)

Junk is the mold of monopoly and possession. The addict stands by while his junk legs carry him straight in on the junk beam to relapse. Junk is quantitative and accurately measurable. The more junk you use the less you have and the more you have the more you use. All the hallucinogen drugs are considered sacred by those who use them--there are Peyote Cults and Bannisteria Cults, Hashish Cults and Mushroom Cults--"the Scared Mushrooms of Mexico enable a man to see God"--but no on ever suggested that junk is sacred. There are no opium cults. Opium is profane and quantitative like money. I have heard that there was once a beneficent non-habit-forming junk in India. It was called soma and is pictured as a beautiful blue tide. If soma ever existed the Pusher was there to bottle it and monopolize it and sell it and it turned into plain old time JUNK.

Junk is the ideal product . . . the ultimate merchandise. No sales talk necessary. The client will crawl through a sewer and beg to buy. . . . The junk merchant does not sell his product to the consumer, he sells the consumer to his product. He does not improve and simplify his merchandise. He degrades and simplifies the client. He pays his staff in junk.

http://www.yardbird.com/william_s_burro ... sition.htm