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OfflineFools Crow
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Why are drugs illegal?
    #23390938 - 06/28/16 12:14 PM (7 years, 6 months ago)

So I was blitzkrieg in the pool yesterday and I was thinking, why on earth are drugs actually illegal when we have alcohol, tobacco, and pharmaceuticals so easily obtainable? I mean if the reason is that the government feels drugs are dangerous and that's why they are illegal it makes no sense because they openly sell alcohol and tobacco which are both extremely dangerous drugs in terms of potential to kill you or lead to you killing others. Much more so than herb is, or shrooms, or acid, etc.

It also doesn't really make sense that the alcohol and tobacco companies where in some kind of conspiracy to stop the sale of drugs when they could easily have just jumped on the train and sold them as well.

The only logical thing I could think of was that people in the past were just sufficiently foolish and gullible enough to generalize drugs and through misunderstanding and fear they were able to pass legislation to block the sale of drugs.

That and pharmaceutical companies not wanting alternative options that may or may not be more effective and easier to produce than the drugs they are selling and thus harder to make a profit off of.

I don't know. What do you all think?


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Re: Why are drugs illegal? [Re: Fools Crow]
    #23390970 - 06/28/16 12:22 PM (7 years, 6 months ago)

psychedelics are illegal cause they open yer eyes to bullshit.

coke, heroin, etc.... are illegal and made looked at so bad so that big pharma can pull the "oh but our shit is safer cause it's legal."


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Re: Why are drugs illegal? [Re: Fools Crow] * 2
    #23390999 - 06/28/16 12:34 PM (7 years, 6 months ago)

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Re: Why are drugs illegal? [Re: spirit_shadow]
    #23391003 - 06/28/16 12:35 PM (7 years, 6 months ago)

Because of your mom's mom.


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Re: Why are drugs illegal? [Re: Fools Crow] * 1
    #23391009 - 06/28/16 12:37 PM (7 years, 6 months ago)

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Re: Why are drugs illegal? [Re: Fools Crow]
    #23391011 - 06/28/16 12:38 PM (7 years, 6 months ago)

I think the main rationale is that people won't go to work and won't behave themselves if it's too easy to get fucked up. Alcohol prohibition was a similar idea, but it was/is so universally popular that the failure of prohibition was obvious to everyone. With less popular intoxicants, it's easier to sustain the fiction that prohibition is achieving something useful.


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Re: Why are drugs illegal? [Re: sanchothestoner]
    #23391015 - 06/28/16 12:41 PM (7 years, 6 months ago)

Quote:

sanchothestoner said:
psychedelics are illegal cause they open yer eyes to bullshit.

coke, heroin, etc.... are illegal and made looked at so bad so that big pharma can pull the "oh but our shit is safer cause it's legal."



Yeah that basically what I was thinking. It just tripped me out again more so than it has in a long time when I was chilling high as fuck in the pool and I looked over at my herb plants which are seedlings right now and thought how the fuck could our monkey government make growing plants illegal. It still trips me out to this day. Then I got to thinking about drugs in general, and then I ended up on a thought train for like an hour about all the logical possibilities responsible for making them illegal. :lol:


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Re: Why are drugs illegal? [Re: spirit_shadow]
    #23391016 - 06/28/16 12:41 PM (7 years, 6 months ago)

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spirit_shadow said:
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Re: Why are drugs illegal? [Re: Malcolm_Xtasy]
    #23391018 - 06/28/16 12:42 PM (7 years, 6 months ago)

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Re: Why are drugs illegal? [Re: psi]
    #23391021 - 06/28/16 12:44 PM (7 years, 6 months ago)

Quote:

psi said:
I think the main rationale is that people won't go to work and won't behave themselves if it's too easy to get fucked up. Alcohol prohibition was a similar idea, but it was/is so universally popular that the failure of prohibition was obvious to everyone. With less popular intoxicants, it's easier to sustain the fiction that prohibition is achieving something useful.



I actually had a similar thought pattern to that. Only I was also thinking that alcohol is a traditional intoxicant for Europeans that goes back thousands of years; whereas herb and the like are not. That would leave tobacco in question, but I assumed the effects of tobacco are so minor that the powers at large didn't see it as a threat to the established way of thinking.


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Re: Why are drugs illegal? [Re: SloppyJoseph]
    #23391022 - 06/28/16 12:45 PM (7 years, 6 months ago)

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Re: Why are drugs illegal? [Re: Fools Crow]
    #23391060 - 06/28/16 12:56 PM (7 years, 6 months ago)

There are racial and socio-political grounds for the prohibition of drugs.  It enabled hippies and blacks to be singled out and their rights trod upon, seeing them as a threat to white middle America.  A lot of this wasn't an issue until Vietnam and the common folk started getting fractious with their government about it.


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Re: Why are drugs illegal? [Re: Fools Crow]
    #23391075 - 06/28/16 01:02 PM (7 years, 6 months ago)

It's always about the money, prohibition artificially spikes the price of these otherwise worthless substances.

If you think the US/EU elites were going to let farmers and governments in Afghanistan and Columbia get rich selling this stuff to their citizens, you don't know them very well.


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Re: Why are drugs illegal? [Re: qman] * 1
    #23391080 - 06/28/16 01:05 PM (7 years, 6 months ago)

Drugs are illegal because of government

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Re: Why are drugs illegal? [Re: plasma]
    #23391318 - 06/28/16 02:52 PM (7 years, 6 months ago)

It all started out because of control and racism.
Opium was banned because of the chinese.
Cannabis because of the Mexicans/blacks..(UK banned it without a parliament discussion or any known reason).

Even to modern day UK banned khat in 2014 because it wasn't culturally acceptable.

It's about control,  culture,  racism and economy between countries.


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Re: Why are drugs illegal? [Re: Fools Crow] * 4
    #23391321 - 06/28/16 02:54 PM (7 years, 6 months ago)

very original thread OP, i've never heard anyone ask this before :underage:


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Re: Why are drugs illegal? [Re: spirit_shadow]
    #23391340 - 06/28/16 03:06 PM (7 years, 6 months ago)

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Re: Why are drugs illegal? [Re: Fools Crow] * 1
    #23391445 - 06/28/16 03:55 PM (7 years, 6 months ago)

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Fools Crow said:
So I was blitzkrieg in the pool yesterday and I was thinking, why on earth are drugs actually illegal when we have alcohol, tobacco, and pharmaceuticals so easily obtainable? I mean if the reason is that the government feels drugs are dangerous and that's why they are illegal it makes no sense because they openly sell alcohol and tobacco which are both extremely dangerous drugs in terms of potential to kill you or lead to you killing others. Much more so than herb is, or shrooms, or acid, etc.

It also doesn't really make sense that the alcohol and tobacco companies where in some kind of conspiracy to stop the sale of drugs when they could easily have just jumped on the train and sold them as well.

The only logical thing I could think of was that people in the past were just sufficiently foolish and gullible enough to generalize drugs and through misunderstanding and fear they were able to pass legislation to block the sale of drugs.

That and pharmaceutical companies not wanting alternative options that may or may not be more effective and easier to produce than the drugs they are selling and thus harder to make a profit off of.

I don't know. What do you all think?




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Re: Why are drugs illegal? [Re: propensity]
    #23392728 - 06/29/16 12:00 AM (7 years, 6 months ago)

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Re: Why are drugs illegal? [Re: Fools Crow] * 1
    #23392817 - 06/29/16 12:56 AM (7 years, 6 months ago)

because nixon was a racist piece of shit


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