Ancalagon said:

Personally, I think your premise that if mind-altering substances were legal everyone would wake up and realize we're all one, etc, is way off. But that is a subject for another forum. To answer your actual question, there is no way the war on drugs has anything to do with legitimate Capitalism unless you're using some asinine, counter-culture definition. A rational person can realize that Capitalism is not simply 'a system that encourages materialism and greed,' but is actually 'a system that encourages maximum freedom...so that you can pursue whatever it is you desire in life.' The drug war is extremely anti-capitalist.

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psikooz said:

Buddy you have no idea.

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It wouldn't be able to survive if millions of people realized that we're all one and then started to live accordingly.

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luvdemshrooms said:

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It wouldn?t be able to survive if millions of people realized that we?re all one and then started to live accordingly.

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If we were all one, we?d all have the same wants, needs, goals and desires.

We as a species will never be all one. Other than as a species.

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I can?t prove it, but what I mean is that our true nature is spirit and that we are all equal parts of one spirit. We reliquished our memory of this so that we can play this illusionary game in this physical world.

Only in the physical world are there differences between us. In the spirit world there is no "you" and "me". There is no "me" and "George Bush". We are one spirit.

Evolving said:

The drug war is anti-capitalist. It is interfering in the free market in drugs. If you disagree, please explain how prohibiting the sale and purchase of goods is capitalistic. Please explain how taking accumulated capital away from people (asset forfeiture) is capitalistic.

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It's capitalistic to prohibit the sale of substances which would most certainly cause a massive shift in values because people would begin to value material things less and less. That's dangerous to a materialistic society.

In the long run it's in the best interest of a materialistic society to prohibit the use of drugs which would kill the thought that fuels it.

Morrowind said:

so how would positivity, love and understanding touch mindless drugged out sheeple?

Face it man, hippies may have been one step towards a proper age of aquarius, but they were nothing but a step. Most of them were rich mindless people who later turned into yuppies, betraying everything they had "learned."

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Most of the people who betrayed everything that they learned did it because they became confused, frustrated and just plain lost. Grace Slick said "It's hard to keep having faith in the movement when they keep picking off the leaders."

The government caused the movement to not work, and systematically re-brainwashed most of those people.