Re:Should We Loosen the Restrictions on Psychedelics?
by AstralStorm on Wednesday July 18, 2018 @05:35AM
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Coffee used to be regulated, until about 19th century in its countries, among them France, UK and Persia come to mind.
First two were to crack down on cafés which were sources of political opposition.
Likewise in Persia, the it was related to sultan not profiting and religious reasons.
Re:Should We Loosen the Restrictions on Psychedelics?
by sonnyblarney on Wednesday July 18, 2018 @03:10PM
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This was a market/power issue i.e. 'mercantilism' - not a health issue.
Re:Should We Loosen the Restrictions on Psychedelics?
by spiralx on Friday July 20, 2018 @06:11AM
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Just wanted to say that I agree 100% with this, yet rarely hear it articulated elsewhere. The pernicious effects of pitting otherwise law-abiding people against the justice system and by proxy, the entire state, is something that I think has contributed a not insignificant part to the breakdown of community and subsequent alienation we're seeing today.
The police are supposed to be on our side, yet huge swathes of society must think of them as the 'enemy' because the law has made it so. It'll be at least a generation after legalisation, probably a couple of generations, before this toxic relationship gets healed, we can't start that process soon enough.
the drug war is a politically and economically driven disaster that has created the single largest wave in history of disrespect for law, laws, and our legal systems.
Law, as a system, draws 100% of it's authority from the notion of being an externalized codified form of social morality. The minute Law ceases being moral and becomes merely an obvious instrument of power it's basis flounders.
If you want a world with less problems, the drug war must go immediately.