DRUGS

(From my Facebook page) I have some pretty well-considered opinions about drug-taking that I'm going to share tonight. And let's be honest - Pot isn't just an herb, it's also a drug, though it's about the most benign I've ever experienced. I think much of the trepidation about self-medicating within hyper-brainwashed American society comes less from a well-reasoned consideration of the facts, and more from the standpoint of that almost reflexive Anglo-American suspicion of, even aversion to, anything pleasurable in life. I have had to confront this troubling attitude emanating from hundreds, if not thousands of people, during my lifetime. And especially, evaluate the impact of it withing my own psyche. So rather than give my "using friends" dire warnings about the risks of addiction, I much prefer saying: "Have a happy, even joyous trip!" I seriously wonder how many of the millions of Americans biting their frikking toenails tonight about the supposed grave perils of "drug use" are equally worried about the plutonium being emitted on a massive scale EVERY DAY from the Fukushima Dai'ichi reactor? And which substance, after all, poses the gravest threat to Humanity, heroin or Strontium-90? I believe the latter, by far. We need to put the issue of "substance abuse" in a more proper perspective, each and every one of us, I'm convinced. Moi? I LIKE drugs. Wish I had some better, and above all, LEGAL ones to do RIGHT NOW! I've restricted myself to coffee and tea for a long, long time. It's all about FREEDOM! Or, as the anti-prohibitionist 1928 presidential candidate Al Smith said all those decades ago: "The only cure for the ills of Democracy is... MORE Democracy." P.S: It you read "Marijuana; the Medical Papers," for example, you'll get a much more articulate exposure to the kinds of of sensible ideas I, within the scope of my inferior ability, have tried to promulgate just now. http://books.google.com/books/about/Marijuana.html?id=pgNgJgAACAAJ