Re: The Chemical Muse

I found this book highly instructive as an examination of our "Puritanical" society's attitude toward drug use generally, an attitude that is fraught with contradiction, illogic, double standards, extremely harmful punitive stupidity and much worse besides: http://books.google.com/books/about/The_Chemical_Muse.html?id=csrRiHGzylIC I have more opinions about drug-taking that I'm going to share tonight. 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 anything pleasurable in life. I have had to confront this troubling attitude emanating from hundreds, if not thousands of people, during my lifetime. And evaluate the impact of it withing my own psyche. So rather than give my 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 hopefully LEGAL ones to do RIGHT NOW, in fact! 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 "The Chemical Muse," you'll get a much more articulate exposure to the kinds of to the kind of sensible ideas I, within the scope of my inferior ability, have tried to promulgate just now.