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Obeying the Law
    #14091852 - 03/09/11 10:54 AM (12 years, 11 months ago)

If you feel a law is unnecessary or just stupid should you follow it?

Take speed limits. On most interstates the speed limit is 70 mph.
Depending on your vehicle, you can safely travel at speeds well over
this, traffic permitting. If your need to speed is dire, and it is
two in the morning and you're the only car on the road, there is
no reason to travel at the speed limit other than because it is law.
So do you speed?

Trespassing is another one. If you feel, like I do, that the
earth is place that can be owned by nothing, is it ok to explore
it freely even if you are exploring somewhere you are technically
trespassing? IMO, if you don't feel the need to put something
inside then it shouldn't be off limits. For residential property,
I feel that if you aren't hopping a fence then you aren't
trespassing. But this is not the case(in america), and many
wonderful places are off limits if you obey the law.

Last thing. Drug dealers are true rebels of the law. I know
my weed dealer has been doin business for a long time because
he is smart, he knows the laws and how to avoid them, and his
risk level is significantly reduced. If you know how to avoid
being caught, the laws punishments aren't a realistic factor
anymore, just a reason to always have to be smart about it.

So it comes down to this. If you can avoid being caught and you
disagree with a law fundamentally, is there any reason to follow it?

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Re: Obeying the Law [Re: mushiepussy]
    #14091900 - 03/09/11 11:03 AM (12 years, 11 months ago)

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mushiepussy said:
So it comes down to this. If you can avoid being caught and you
disagree with a law fundamentally, is there any reason to follow it?


There can be, if a person comes up with one; were you not aware that people can come up with their own reasons for doing things? :undecided:


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It's one thing to simply enjoy a style of life that one enjoys, but it's another thing altogether to refer to another person's choice as "wrong" or to rationalize their behavior as being pathological or resulting from some sort of inadequacy or failing so as to create a sense of superiority or separation as yet another projection of a personal fear or control issue.

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Re: Obeying the Law [Re: Poid]
    #14092062 - 03/09/11 11:36 AM (12 years, 11 months ago)

I try to make sure that the laws I break do not place anyone else in danger. Most laws in America are in place to protect us from ourselves (i.e., drug laws) and I feel that it should be my choice to "protect" myself or not. Any educated drug user who treats the substances they use with respect and takes care of their body will also practice harm minimization techniques (if they're even necessary). This is how drug laws should be, but I understand the flip side because too many people are completely ignorant about drugs and could ruin their lives if they let things get out of control. Quite honestly I'd rather them be illegal but with smaller punishments for personal users, at least it keeps the uneducated/misinformed masses from free access to drugs, that's who gives them a bad rap anyway.


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Re: Obeying the Law [Re: irie.one]
    #14092080 - 03/09/11 11:40 AM (12 years, 11 months ago)

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irie.one said:
Any educated drug user who treats the substances they use with respect and takes care of their body will also practice harm minimization techniques (if they're even necessary). This is how drug laws should be...


What is how drug laws should be? :confused:


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irie.one said:
...with smaller punishments for personal users, at least it keeps the uneducated/misinformed masses from free access to drugs...


How does it do that?


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It's one thing to simply enjoy a style of life that one enjoys, but it's another thing altogether to refer to another person's choice as "wrong" or to rationalize their behavior as being pathological or resulting from some sort of inadequacy or failing so as to create a sense of superiority or separation as yet another projection of a personal fear or control issue.

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Re: Obeying the Law [Re: Poid]
    #14092142 - 03/09/11 11:52 AM (12 years, 11 months ago)

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Poid said:
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irie.one said:
Any educated drug user who treats the substances they use with respect and takes care of their body will also practice harm minimization techniques (if they're even necessary). This is how drug laws should be...


What is how drug laws should be? :confused:




Pardon, drug laws should be written in a way that allows the respectful recreational drug users to have minimal legal penalties. I understand why the system is the way it is however and there's not much to do except be careful when transporting and possessing illegal substances and hope to not get caught.


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irie.one said:
...with smaller punishments for personal users, at least it keeps the uneducated/misinformed masses from free access to drugs...


How does it do that?




They'll still have access to the black market for drugs, but at least I won't see jail time for getting caught with a couple of grams of pot in my state. This should be the same for other substances such as psychedelics. If I'm caught with psychedelics of any type in my state it's jail, even if it's just in amounts for personal use, that's overkill in my opinion. At least having drugs remain illegal will turn a lot of potential users away (I know many people who don't do drugs simply because of their legal status). Keeping them illegal would stop them from being sold in stores where anyone and their mom can get drugs and abuse them and give them an even worse connotation than they already have. At least you need to seek them out deliberately now and in many cases the drugs find you, which is usually a positive thing when it comes to psychedelics.


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Re: Obeying the Law [Re: irie.one]
    #14092225 - 03/09/11 12:12 PM (12 years, 11 months ago)

I generally follow laws, unless they interfere with with my desires, or if the law interferes with a basic right.


Desire = speeding. it's not a basic right for me to go 90 mph, but fuck, sometimes i wanna, and i can if my car isn't a clunker. it's a desire because i could just as easily get to my destination going 70 instead of 90. i guess trespassing could go here.. but your description fits better with the next category

Basic Right = freedom of consciousness. i don't think someone else can tell me what to do to my body. i guess your description of trespassing goes here, because you seem to be saying that 'sharing the earth' is a fundamental concept.

but sometimes my idea of basic rights and desires gets convoluted, and i have to choose. what do you think i go with :lol:


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Re: Obeying the Law [Re: irie.one]
    #14092298 - 03/09/11 12:27 PM (12 years, 11 months ago)

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Poid said:
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irie.one said:
Any educated drug user who treats the substances they use with respect and takes care of their body will also practice harm minimization techniques (if they're even necessary). This is how drug laws should be...


What is how drug laws should be? :confused:




Pardon, drug laws should be written in a way that allows the respectful recreational drug users to have minimal legal penalties. I understand why the system is the way it is however and there's not much to do except be careful when transporting and possessing illegal substances and hope to not get caught.


Oh I see, and pretty much agree; I'm glad that I can legally smoke pot where I live, and can buy world-quality pot without having to mess with shitty drug dealers. I generally don't worry about the law when it comes to drug use, because I don't usually use anything other than weed, and when I do, I am very discreet.

I think society eventually needs to get to a point where all drugs are legal, this "Drug War" nonsense is buttfucking unbelievable.


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irie.one said:
...with smaller punishments for personal users, at least it keeps the uneducated/misinformed masses from free access to drugs...


How does it do that?




They'll still have access to the black market for drugs, but at least I won't see jail time for getting caught with a couple of grams of pot in my state.


I know they will, so why did you say that they'll be kept from free access to drugs? What did you mean by "free access" anyways? Did you mean that they would be kept from being freely able to access drugs, or that they would be kept from having access to free drugs? :ooo:


I want me some free drugs...:sheen:


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This should be the same for other substances such as psychedelics. If I'm caught with psychedelics of any type in my state it's jail, even if it's just in amounts for personal use, that's overkill in my opinion. At least having drugs remain illegal will turn a lot of potential users away (I know many people who don't do drugs simply because of their legal status). Keeping them illegal would stop them from being sold in stores where anyone and their mom can get drugs and abuse them and give them an even worse connotation than they already have.


If people were smart, they would understand that it's the individual, not the drug, that is to blame for drug abuse, and that forbidding everyone from using drugs just because some people fuck up their lives with them is unfair.


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At least you need to seek them out deliberately now and in many cases the drugs find you, which is usually a positive thing when it comes to psychedelics.


Psychedelics hardly ever find me, and the only place I know where to get them is on Haight St. in S.F., which I absolutely haight going to for drugs because I have to talk to a lot of burned-out hippies! (:tongue:)

:wook:


I'd prefer it if drugs were 100%, then I wouldn't have to deal with dirty hippies in order to get my psychedelics, and sketch-ass black people in order to get my coke. :macdre:


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fireworks_god said:
It's one thing to simply enjoy a style of life that one enjoys, but it's another thing altogether to refer to another person's choice as "wrong" or to rationalize their behavior as being pathological or resulting from some sort of inadequacy or failing so as to create a sense of superiority or separation as yet another projection of a personal fear or control issue.

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Re: Obeying the Law [Re: mushiepussy]
    #14092314 - 03/09/11 12:30 PM (12 years, 11 months ago)

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If you can avoid being caught and you disagree with a law fundamentally, is there any reason to follow it?




No reason that I'd use, certainly.  However, one could try to make an argument that breaking the law even if you won't get caught and fundamentally disagree with it shows a lack of respect for the law as a whole and that abiding in this society as a citizen it is your civic and moral duty to follow the set laws that are established therein.


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Re: Obeying the Law [Re: mushiepussy]
    #14092341 - 03/09/11 12:37 PM (12 years, 11 months ago)

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Trespassing is another one. If you feel, like I do, that the earth is place that can be owned by nothing, is it ok to explore it freely even if you are exploring somewhere you are technically trespassing?




I think we should all crash at your place without your permission. :thumbup:


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Re: Obeying the Law [Re: OrgoneConclusion]
    #14092404 - 03/09/11 12:51 PM (12 years, 11 months ago)

I'm sure he'll clean up after us.:lol:

Some people have absolutely no concept of how the animal world operates. :braindamage:


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Re: Obeying the Law [Re: OrgoneConclusion] * 1
    #14092450 - 03/09/11 01:03 PM (12 years, 11 months ago)

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Trespassing is another one. If you feel, like I do, that the earth is place that can be owned by nothing, is it ok to explore it freely even if you are exploring somewhere you are technically trespassing?




I think we should all crash at your place without your permission. :thumbup:


I'll bring the kegs and the porno! :beercat:


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fireworks_god said:
It's one thing to simply enjoy a style of life that one enjoys, but it's another thing altogether to refer to another person's choice as "wrong" or to rationalize their behavior as being pathological or resulting from some sort of inadequacy or failing so as to create a sense of superiority or separation as yet another projection of a personal fear or control issue.

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Re: Obeying the Law [Re: Poid]
    #14092465 - 03/09/11 01:05 PM (12 years, 11 months ago)

Why bring porno when you can bring strippers?  (Apart from being a cheapskate, of course :tongue:)


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Re: Obeying the Law [Re: deCypher]
    #14092556 - 03/09/11 01:26 PM (12 years, 11 months ago)

Why bring strippers when you can bring hookers? :jennajameson:


Or, if mushiepussy has a sister (with a musshie pussy), we can just kidnap her and have all the free sex we want; the money we save can be spent on buying dominatrix gear for her to wear, and morning-after pills. :bondage:


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fireworks_god said:
It's one thing to simply enjoy a style of life that one enjoys, but it's another thing altogether to refer to another person's choice as "wrong" or to rationalize their behavior as being pathological or resulting from some sort of inadequacy or failing so as to create a sense of superiority or separation as yet another projection of a personal fear or control issue.

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Re: Obeying the Law [Re: deCypher] * 1
    #14094315 - 03/09/11 06:54 PM (12 years, 11 months ago)

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mushiepussy said:
If you can avoid being caught and you disagree with a law fundamentally, is there any reason to follow it?




No reason that I'd use, certainly.  However, one could try to make an argument that breaking the law even if you won't get caught and fundamentally disagree with it shows a lack of respect for the law as a whole and that abiding in this society as a citizen it is your civic and moral duty to follow the set laws that are established therein.




Exactly. Is this moral obligation to society more important than the one to ourselves?

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Re: Obeying the Law [Re: Icelander]
    #14094348 - 03/09/11 07:03 PM (12 years, 11 months ago)

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I'm sure he'll clean up after us.:lol:

Some people have absolutely no concept of how the animal world operates. :braindamage:




I'm a hunter, I have a very firm concept of the animal world.
The problem is humans are not animals, they are unpredictable.
I know if I see a hungry bear I should gtfo, but when I see a
hungry man I don't know whether to feed him or protect myself.
I like to give him the benifit of the doubt with a hand on
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Re: Obeying the Law [Re: mushiepussy]
    #14094365 - 03/09/11 07:06 PM (12 years, 11 months ago)

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Icelander said:
I'm sure he'll clean up after us.:lol:

Some people have absolutely no concept of how the animal world operates. :braindamage:




I'm a hunter, I have a very firm concept of the animal world.
The problem is humans are not animals...


:flowstone:


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...they are unpredictable.


Yup, that they're unpredictable means that they're not animals. :thumbup:




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It's one thing to simply enjoy a style of life that one enjoys, but it's another thing altogether to refer to another person's choice as "wrong" or to rationalize their behavior as being pathological or resulting from some sort of inadequacy or failing so as to create a sense of superiority or separation as yet another projection of a personal fear or control issue.

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Re: Obeying the Law [Re: Poid] * 1
    #14094441 - 03/09/11 07:22 PM (12 years, 11 months ago)

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Is this moral obligation to society more important than the one to ourselves?




Entirely depends on what system of morality you adhere to.  :tongue:

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Re: Obeying the Law [Re: Poid]
    #14095039 - 03/09/11 09:18 PM (12 years, 11 months ago)

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Any educated drug user who treats the substances they use with respect and takes care of their body will also practice harm minimization techniques (if they're even necessary). This is how drug laws should be...


What is how drug laws should be? :confused:




Pardon, drug laws should be written in a way that allows the respectful recreational drug users to have minimal legal penalties. I understand why the system is the way it is however and there's not much to do except be careful when transporting and possessing illegal substances and hope to not get caught.


Oh I see, and pretty much agree; I'm glad that I can legally smoke pot where I live, and can buy world-quality pot without having to mess with shitty drug dealers. I generally don't worry about the law when it comes to drug use, because I don't usually use anything other than weed, and when I do, I am very discreet.

I think society eventually needs to get to a point where all drugs are legal, this "Drug War" nonsense is buttfucking unbelievable.




I'm envious, enjoy your freedom to get high as you please. There isn't a single political topic I'm more passionate about than the re-fucking-diculousness of marijuana not being legal while alcohol is. I'll restrain myself and save it for another discussion :smirk:. I'm the same way; the rare occasions when I have anything other than weed in my possession I make sure to use the utmost discretion. That's part of being a responsible drug user as far as I'm concerned. I'll give you that; the "Drug War" is just as senseless as any other war, if not more so. I’m just not sure how society would handle the full legalization of drugs. I guess I’m not against it but I’m not sold on it either, enlighten me :smirk:.


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...with smaller punishments for personal users, at least it keeps the uneducated/misinformed masses from free access to drugs...


How does it do that?




They'll still have access to the black market for drugs, but at least I won't see jail time for getting caught with a couple of grams of pot in my state.


I know they will, so why did you say that they'll be kept from free access to drugs? What did you mean by "free access" anyways? Did you mean that they would be kept from being freely able to access drugs, or that they would be kept from having access to free drugs? :ooo:




Free access, like being able to walk into a 7/11 and buy an 8-ball of coke, if it were legal. More than just free access to drugs, there would also be more locations to purchase drugs from. These statements are made under the possibly inaccurate assumption that there would be very loose regulation on the sales of drugs if they were to be fully legalized. Access to the black market for drugs isn’t always the easiest to find, especially in some parts of the country. Where I live I’m fortunate to have access to any drug I could ever want and then some. Not everyone has that luxury, and for those individuals the black market isn’t freely accessible like it would be if they could just walk into a store to make the same purchase. It sounds like you don't have the easiest time obtaining psychedelics either  :aweman:.


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This should be the same for other substances such as psychedelics. If I'm caught with psychedelics of any type in my state it's jail, even if it's just in amounts for personal use, that's overkill in my opinion. At least having drugs remain illegal will turn a lot of potential users away (I know many people who don't do drugs simply because of their legal status). Keeping them illegal would stop them from being sold in stores where anyone and their mom can get drugs and abuse them and give them an even worse connotation than they already have.


If people were smart, they would understand that it's the individual, not the drug, that is to blame for drug abuse, and that forbidding everyone from using drugs just because some people fuck up their lives with them is unfair.




Once again, I agree with you, there is a big difference between drug use and responsible drug use. It is the individual who controls what the drugs do to them (not the affects of the drug of course, but how they allow the drugs to control their lives). I still believe that full legalization would encourage those who would never use drugs pre-legalization just because they didn’t want to do anything illegal, and these are the individuals who could potentially give drugs a bad reputation. Not every single one of them, but there would probably be an increase in the amount of uneducated people suddenly taking an interest in drugs and end up abusing them because they’re freely available to possess and use without legal consequences. There will also be others of the same mindset that would do a great deal of research before ever touching a substance; these are people who legalization would benefit. Again, I'm still on the fence about full legalization of drugs, but my opinion is malleable on this topic so give me some evidence to support what you're hoping for.


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At least you need to seek them out deliberately now and in many cases the drugs find you, which is usually a positive thing when it comes to psychedelics.


Psychedelics hardly ever find me, and the only place I know where to get them is on Haight St. in S.F., which I absolutely haight going to for drugs because I have to talk to a lot of burned-out hippies! (:tongue:)

I'd prefer it if drugs were 100%, then I wouldn't have to deal with dirty hippies in order to get my psychedelics, and sketch-ass black people in order to get my coke. :macdre:




That sounds pretty sketch :facepalm3:. I guess I don’t have to deal with anything like that when getting my drugs; they really do seem to find me… Every time I get the itch to trip a buddy seems to hit me up with perfect timing telling me about some new fry he just got or dank shrooms, and everything just falls into place :shrug:.


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Re: Obeying the Law [Re: mushiepussy]
    #14095804 - 03/09/11 11:45 PM (12 years, 11 months ago)

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mushiepussy said:
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Icelander said:
I'm sure he'll clean up after us.:lol:

Some people have absolutely no concept of how the animal world operates. :braindamage:




I'm a hunter, I have a very firm concept of the animal world.
The problem is humans are not animals, they are unpredictable.
I know if I see a hungry bear I should gtfo, but when I see a
hungry man I don't know whether to feed him or protect myself.
I like to give him the benifit of the doubt with a hand on
my machete.




:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:


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Re: Obeying the Law [Re: irie.one]
    #14095821 - 03/09/11 11:50 PM (12 years, 11 months ago)

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Oh I see, and pretty much agree; I'm glad that I can legally smoke pot where I live, and can buy world-quality pot without having to mess with shitty drug dealers. I generally don't worry about the law when it comes to drug use, because I don't usually use anything other than weed, and when I do, I am very discreet.

I think society eventually needs to get to a point where all drugs are legal, this "Drug War" nonsense is buttfucking unbelievable.




I'm envious, enjoy your freedom to get high as you please.


Yeah, it really kicks ass; I don't get high as I please, though, because I don't have enough money to do that. I still get pretty high considering, though. :vaped:



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There isn't a single political topic I'm more passionate about than the re-fucking-diculousness of marijuana not being legal while alcohol is. I'll restrain myself and save it for another discussion :smirk:. I'm the same way; the rare occasions when I have anything other than weed in my possession I make sure to use the utmost discretion. That's part of being a responsible drug user as far as I'm concerned. I'll give you that; the "Drug War" is just as senseless as any other war, if not more so. I’m just not sure how society would handle the full legalization of drugs. I guess I’m not against it but I’m not sold on it either, enlighten me :smirk:.


Only one ":smirk:" per paragraph is permitted. :nono:

I don't really think being a discrete drug user necessarily means that you are a responsible one, and I don't think responsible drug users are necessarily discrete; if drugs were legal, I probably wouldn't be discrete at all, but I would still be responsible in the sense that I would ensure that I wouldn't do anything that would put my, or anybody else's life at risk.


I think it's much more senseless than other wars, sometimes war is necessary. I personally don't care if people fuck their lives up on drugs, it's neither my problem or business. I only have this one life, and I think it sucks ass that I have to skirt around the law in order to do what I enjoy, all because a bunch of junkie 'tards fucked up their lives on heroin. I don't care how society would handle the full legalization of drugs, as long as it doesn't cause the violent crime rate to soar.

The fundamental purpose of government IMO is to protect us from each other, and to try to improve the quality of life of citizens as a whole; the government has absolutely no business to be telling us what we can do with our own bodies IMO, that they can and do is almost unbelievable.



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Free access, like being able to walk into a 7/11 and buy an 8-ball of coke, if it were legal. More than just free access to drugs, there would also be more locations to purchase drugs from. These statements are made under the possibly inaccurate assumption that there would be very loose regulation on the sales of drugs if they were to be fully legalized.


I don't see what's so wrong about them buying dope in 7/11, why would you have a problem with that if it's not any of your business? I think, in an ideal state, drugs that are sold in stores would come with a modest tax, and we'd have the full right to produce whatever drugs we wish to in our own homes.



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Access to the black market for drugs isn’t always the easiest to find, especially in some parts of the country. Where I live I’m fortunate to have access to any drug I could ever want and then some. Not everyone has that luxury, and for those individuals the black market isn’t freely accessible like it would be if they could just walk into a store to make the same purchase. It sounds like you don't have the easiest time obtaining psychedelics either  :aweman:.


I don't, it sucks. I used to have a reliable source for acid, but that disappeared.



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]If people were smart, they would understand that it's the individual, not the drug, that is to blame for drug abuse, and that forbidding everyone from using drugs just because some people fuck up their lives with them is unfair.




Once again, I agree with you, there is a big difference between drug use and responsible drug use. It is the individual who controls what the drugs do to them (not the affects of the drug of course, but how they allow the drugs to control their lives). I still believe that full legalization would encourage those who would never use drugs pre-legalization just because they didn’t want to do anything illegal, and these are the individuals who could potentially give drugs a bad reputation.


If it's legal, who cares? I really couldn't give a shit if drugs become legal, and some people who wouldn't have tried drugs if they were still illegal ended getting high; why is this such a concern for you?


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Not every single one of them, but there would probably be an increase in the amount of uneducated people suddenly taking an interest in drugs and end up abusing them because they’re freely available to possess and use without legal consequences.


So? There's a such thing as rehab.


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There will also be others of the same mindset that would do a great deal of research before ever touching a substance; these are people who legalization would benefit. Again, I'm still on the fence about full legalization of drugs, but my opinion is malleable on this topic so give me some evidence to support what you're hoping for.


I'm not sure why you're on the fence, or why you care if people try drugs; really, why is that such a big deal to you?


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Psychedelics hardly ever find me, and the only place I know where to get them is on Haight St. in S.F., which I absolutely haight going to for drugs because I have to talk to a lot of burned-out hippies! (:tongue:)

I'd prefer it if drugs were 100%, then I wouldn't have to deal with dirty hippies in order to get my psychedelics, and sketch-ass black people in order to get my coke. :macdre:




That sounds pretty sketch :facepalm3:. I guess I don’t have to deal with anything like that when getting my drugs; they really do seem to find me… Every time I get the itch to trip a buddy seems to hit me up with perfect timing telling me about some new fry he just got or dank shrooms, and everything just falls into place :shrug:.


That's pretty chill. :lsd:


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Well I try my best to be just like I am, but everybody wants you to be just like them. --  Bob Dylan
fireworks_god said:
It's one thing to simply enjoy a style of life that one enjoys, but it's another thing altogether to refer to another person's choice as "wrong" or to rationalize their behavior as being pathological or resulting from some sort of inadequacy or failing so as to create a sense of superiority or separation as yet another projection of a personal fear or control issue.

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