what is the reason that illegal drugs are considered as such?
think about it. i am not a marijuana user, lsd user or a mushroom user but if they are so bad, why aren’t cigarettes put in that same category of illegal. some contain rat poison. smoking it for long periods of time can cause gangrene, throat cancer and many other diseases. isnt it in some way just as bad as the 3 “drugs” i mentioned. other things can be like alcohol (sadly some people cant get laid without it) and pharmacy drugs. seriously, i know of this legal pill used to treat asthma that has the side effects of shortening the user’s breathing. isnt that weird? its true after all
wow Norte you really are very veery smart. your dream world is doing wonders for you dude. have a good ducking fay!
@Laughter i understand what you are saying. however, if you notice a pattern in the “drugs” that are illegal, you would see that they were used by counter-culture movements. and you know how the govt is about maintaining the so called “status quo”. they would do anything to “achieve” that, if you will.
Marijuana isn’t bad, meth, meth is horrible. Let’s fight illegal drugs!
stop “killing the pain” with crack rocks. You sir, are nucking futs.
Because that is the way congress and the state legislatures have voted. If you want to know why some individual member of some legislative body voted in some way on some specific bill, call that person and ask. If you are asking if all legislators think exactly alike on any subject, the answer is no.
I’m not sure of the details, but one of the reasons marijuana is illegal, is because the U.S. Government couldn’t find a way to tax it.
At least, that’s what I’ve heard.
Drugs being illegal is an accident of history, that demonisation and misinformation have made impossible to reverse in most countries.
Alcohol and Cigarettes kill thousands every year, while more people die falling from horses than from E.
Ban horses I say!
No-one has ever caught cancer or overdosed on Weed btw, except those that mix it with tobacco.
Oh, and answering the answers in your edit gets your question deleted.
as far as the alcohol and cigarettes go, think of it like this…
is it illegal to get tattoos? eat fatty foods? drive a car? ride a skateboard? these are all potentially dangerous things that are legal because it is assumed that anyone engaging in them is aware of the risks. If alcohol and cigarettes were to be made illegal it’s making the assumption that a governing body knows what’s best for you more than you do, completely negating the idea of personal autonomy and violating fundamental rights to ‘life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness’.
the reason that certain drugs are illegal and alcohol and cigarettes aren’t is because governing bodies are under the assumption that addicted people are more prone to commit crimes. this may be true in the case of drugs like crack, meth and heroin but personally i’ve never known a pothead to break into someone’s car for weed money…haha…you get my point.
The reason that most of these are illegal, is that in the past a variety of people have found it beneficial to their sordid little careers to demonise these compounds through the spreading of misinformation and lies, so as to engage in empire building.
This compounded with the fact that most politicians are abject cowards and couldn’t be trusted to stand up for truth and fairness, unless there were significant votes attached. Unfortunately, the communities that use these substances have never used their numbers to ensure they were made legal, while politicians regularly raise the “soft on drugs” spectre, in an attempt to paint their opponents as allowing something that is going to harm and kill the kids of voters. Of course that fact is that unlike alcohol and tobacco,each of the substances that you have cited is non-toxic, non-addictive and psychologically safe to use. Hippies don’t riot.
Each of the substances that you mentioned is a type of compound known as an Entheogen, which means that they reliably assist users in achieving connection to the Divine. They have all been used for thousands of years within this context (with the exception of LSD, which is nearly identical to psilocybin in its effect and is renowned for its spiritual impact). So, if you live in a country where your freedom to practice your religion is enshrined in the constitution, then the use of these substances is actually legal, IF you use them for religious practice (as I do), within the context of a coherent religious belief system.
While laws might exist to make the practice illegal, these laws are themselves not legal if they contravene the constitution on which they are supposed to be based. Obviously, you’d need to go through whatever constitutional court your country had in order to have your rights enforced, which could be expensive and ultimately, may not be successful, because judges don’t always decide based on the facts, but rather on their political orientation and fears of setting a precedent. Still, a willingness to fight religious persecution is arguably a key sign of the genuineness of any claim to faith.