Mathematician
Reason, and reason again
Drug prohibition is canon to most young adults. In the year 2005 almost three-fourths of all twenty year olds admitted consuming more than a few drops of alcohol in a setting that was not in agreement with their state's regulations. Alcohol is of course one of the least restricted "hard" drugs one can came across, but its effects are quite devastating in excess and produce more tragedies each year than anyone finds acceptable.
In an ideal world, how would drug education be treated?
I ask this question because I find drugs to be both dangerous (and that includes weed, although the physical harm is much less - people are recreationally addicted to getting high) and yet not entirely objectionable. I won't incriminate myself on describing my explorations, but I find that drugs and a group of friends that are not conducive towards "blasting their brains out" with any substance short of arsenic can help young adults realize self-empowerment ironically. Discovering drugs, falling for their enticements, and then emerging with a new appreciation for moderation can be a beautiful development. Few drugs in moderation are dangerous, and I would argue that if one has the will power, either through experience or innateness, all but the very strong drugs have the potential to improve one's life, just like a good bit of food, meditation, sex, or hobbies.
That said drugs also easily lure people in by offering them hedonistic paradises. The logician can recline on a sofa and let hallucinogen open up his or her mind; the partier can pop a few pills of ecstasy and be engulfed in love; the tired and stressed can just smoke a blunt and hide away in lethargy. All of the drugs listed are fine when appropriately used, but so many people abuse even "soft drugs" that I'm left wondering if drug programs should really take up a less clandestine approach that goes along with progressive sexual education: "abstinence is the safest route, but if you're going to take drugs, here's what you need to know."
For example, there's two points I hammer home to anyone who starts experimenting. I admit upfront that person X will probably have the time of his or her life (whether "rolling your nuts off" or "tripping" or "blazed" or "shwasted") but watch out for these thought processes. They usually occur in sequential order:
- I want to experiment further. [Cocaine? Heroine? Meth? Speedballing?]
- Other people may not handle it, but I can.
In an ideal world, how would drug education be treated?
I ask this question because I find drugs to be both dangerous (and that includes weed, although the physical harm is much less - people are recreationally addicted to getting high) and yet not entirely objectionable. I won't incriminate myself on describing my explorations, but I find that drugs and a group of friends that are not conducive towards "blasting their brains out" with any substance short of arsenic can help young adults realize self-empowerment ironically. Discovering drugs, falling for their enticements, and then emerging with a new appreciation for moderation can be a beautiful development. Few drugs in moderation are dangerous, and I would argue that if one has the will power, either through experience or innateness, all but the very strong drugs have the potential to improve one's life, just like a good bit of food, meditation, sex, or hobbies.
That said drugs also easily lure people in by offering them hedonistic paradises. The logician can recline on a sofa and let hallucinogen open up his or her mind; the partier can pop a few pills of ecstasy and be engulfed in love; the tired and stressed can just smoke a blunt and hide away in lethargy. All of the drugs listed are fine when appropriately used, but so many people abuse even "soft drugs" that I'm left wondering if drug programs should really take up a less clandestine approach that goes along with progressive sexual education: "abstinence is the safest route, but if you're going to take drugs, here's what you need to know."
For example, there's two points I hammer home to anyone who starts experimenting. I admit upfront that person X will probably have the time of his or her life (whether "rolling your nuts off" or "tripping" or "blazed" or "shwasted") but watch out for these thought processes. They usually occur in sequential order:
- I want to experiment further. [Cocaine? Heroine? Meth? Speedballing?]
- Other people may not handle it, but I can.
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