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To: Persevero

Ok. So you want to demand people to be completely 100% sober 24/7 under penalty of prison?

Never happening. Intoxication has been a huge part of every known civilization as a recreational activity to relieve stress since recorded history began. It has even been done by animals LONG before humans walked the earth.

Even if you magically outlawed all substances, people would huff road solvents or ferment their own feces to escape reality. The best we can do is allow certain drugs on the market that are pure, non-toxic, properly dosed and don’t cause long-term harm. So people can escape but still come back when they want. Otherwise you have people instantly and permanently destroying their brains with things like spraypaint, K2, bathsalts and countless other contaminated fake drugs that are the fruits of prohibition.


161 posted on 09/09/2016 9:42:28 AM PDT by varyouga
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To: varyouga

It depends upon what you mean by 100% sober.

There is a subjectivity to this, which I don’t pretend doesn’t exist. We have somewhat arbitrarily decided on .08 blood alcohol in California, for example. Now you might go .09 or something and I still wouldn’t consider you drunk. But you do have to have some sort of standard.

I’d hope it would be a reasonable one. What is the alternative?

It would be anyone could take anything at any time and we could all just deal with the wreckage.

So somewhere betwen 100% sober all the time and everyone staggering around out of their minds, hopefully, we find a reasonable and workable level.

It takes effort and intelligence, we can’t just wish the problem away.


171 posted on 09/09/2016 11:40:56 AM PDT by Persevero (NUTS)
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