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| People Have A Fundamental Right To Get High |
| Do people have the natural right to get high? Given that our own bodies produce illegal substances (DMT) and that bears, deer, birds, elephants, and apes have all shown the propensity to get shnockered when given the chance, and given that our bodies contain the mechanisms for allowing us to do so, it seems to me that it is indeed a natural right. What do all of you think?? |
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I believe the US should only INFORM the public about what drugs do to you, and then leave the rest
up to you.
If you had half a brain, you would choose not to have drugs, then by golly, go ahead.
As long as no one ELSE is harmed. |
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Legalise the lot of it. It might work. One thing is for sure the current method of "don't do
drugs, drugs are bad" is not working. Let's try something else.
We should have the right to decide for ourselves what we do, as long as it doesn't harm others.
Which there is no reason it should do if taken in moderation and at the correct time. |
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The government has no business interfering in the private lives of its citizens except to prevent
harm done to others.
Narcotics have been used in cultures across the world for centuries, often as an aid to greater
spiritual development.
Most of the hysteria about drugs come from the US government which puts pressure on other
governments whenever they are considering adopting a more relaxed policy. I believe the reason that
US government takes such a censorious position on the issue of drug freedom is that it is itself
engaged in illegal drug-trafficking and needs drugs to remain illegal so it can keep the prices up.
America has found the illicit funds to be made from drug-trafficking extremely useful as a source of
off-the-books finance for black operations it did not want to have to justify before congress. Many
books and studies over the years have demonstrated the connection between the US government and
illegal drug trafficking.
Gary Webb wrote a book about how the CIA was responsible for the crack cocaine epidemic in Los
Angeles then was hounded out of his job and "suicided", shot twice in the head and they called it
suicide.
Alfred McCoy, in the Politics of Heroin, noted that if you overlay a map of the major drug-producing
areas in the post-WW2 period as they changed over time with a map of overt and covert US military
and paramilitary activity, you would find they were the same maps.
We see this today in Afghanistan. The Taliban announce they are going to wipe out the heroin trade.
They do, in fact, suppress it almost entirely. The next year their country is invaded, their regime
deposed and, in the following year, there is a bumper drug harvest again. |
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Do we need government defining and regulating all forms of recreation? If something is risky then
should it be illegal? Should risky sex be illegal? Driving with children in the car (a major
distraction and reason for accidents)? Do we want or need morality police? Are we striving for a
moral risk free society? Or a free society where we are adults and can make our own decisions. I
need to be responsible for me today, and i expect others to be the same. |
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As long as you live under a government there are zero natural rights except the right to die and you
can't kill yourself. The government can give certain rights but there is no such thing as a natural
right under a government that sees the natural rights as socially unacceptable. I should have the
natural right to walk around town naked since its my body but i can get arrested for that. |
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It is extremely difficult to separate from drug use the personal harm (which I agree everyone has
the right to inflict on themselves) and social harm to others and society as a whole. Whilst in a
perfect world I would support this proposal, in this world I cannot. |
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Sorry, but drug use is immoral because it harms you and others. |
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 Mark  31 May 2008 01:43
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