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what all that have to do with drugs anyway?Alcohol and cannabis are drugs. Tobacco and alcohol are more harmful than LSD, GSB or ecstasy [1][2].
> are neither fun nor novel nor especially risky from a legal point of view
Seriously? I've never taken LSD, but there are exactly zero accounts that characterise it as "neither fun nor novel."
Also, we're debating drugs' legality. Saying they're dangerous because they're illegal is tautological.
> just degenerate and debilitating
Amphetamines, opiates and tropane alkaloids have legitimate medical uses. And there are cultures with a long history of responsibly using them. I don't agree with OP in being overly permissive with their distribution; many people can't handle them, and until we can predict which people can't handle which drugs recreationally, due to neurochemistry or personality issues, I'm against broad legalisation.
But plenty of people–including extremely productive, society-improving people (e.g. Paul Erdõs [3])–used drugs, while plenty of sober people are useless and boring.
[1] https://www.amazon.com/Drugs-Without-Hot-David-Nutt/dp/19068...
[2] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/ba/De...
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Erdős
Alcohol and cannabis are drugs. Tobacco and alcohol are more harmful than LSD, GSB or ecstasy [1][2].
> are neither fun nor novel nor especially risky from a legal point of view
Seriously? I've never taken LSD, but there are exactly zero accounts that characterise it as "neither fun nor novel."
Also, we're debating drugs' legality. Saying they're dangerous because they're illegal is tautological.
> just degenerate and debilitating
Amphetamines, opiates and tropane alkaloids have legitimate medical uses. And there are cultures with a long history of responsibly using them. I don't agree with OP in being overly permissive with their distribution; many people can't handle them, and until we can predict which people can't handle which drugs recreationally, due to neurochemistry or personality issues, I'm against broad legalisation.
But plenty of people–including extremely productive, society-improving people (e.g. Paul Erdõs [3])–used drugs, while plenty of sober people are useless and boring.
[1] https://www.amazon.com/Drugs-Without-Hot-David-Nutt/dp/19068...
[2] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/ba/De...
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Erdős