Posted on 02/03/2003 9:54:04 AM PST by MrLeRoy
As law enforcement lobbies members of Congress and state legislators coast-to-coast for more funds to finance the war against illicit drugs, Utah's Legislature considers liberalizing Utah's liquor laws.
As leaders obsess over how governments will help pay for the costs of medical treatment, Utah's Legislature is considering liberalizing Utah's liquor laws.
Someone should teach Utah's legislators that alcohol is the most abused drug.
Pretend for a minute that humankind had not discovered alcohol until Drexel distilled it in 2000. After years of testing, would the Federal Drug Administration allow it to be sold as a drink? At best, the FDA would place it under a restrictive prescription schedule, complete with a list of warnings against side effects and addiction potential.
Studies that tout alcohol's benefit on heart health illustrate that some "scientific" testing is actually designed to justify our habits. If Drexel had discovered alcohol and tried to market it as a heart medication, the FDA would have denied the proposal because of its dangerous and addictive side effects.
Ancient beers and wines had minor food value. In specific times and places, they were safer to drink than the waters. Through the ages, humans experimented with wines and spirits, not to improve their food value, but to increase their alcohol jolt.
The snobbishness surrounding wine consumption is misleading, for vintners are just as obsessive about high alcohol contents as are the distillers of whiskey.
Alcohol, with tobacco and marijuana are the big-three hypocrisies in the American war on drugs. Proponents of these substances would have us believe they are really good for us because they are (in the popular cliché) "natural."
This logic is laughable. Mankind has so hybridized the plants involved in wine and the various types of cigarettes that nothing is natural about any of the products.
For example, mankind has so thoroughly hybridized marijuana in the past four thousand years that the original plant probably does not exist anywhere on earth. People tinkered with it -- especially since the late 1970s -- to increase the psychoactive buzz, not its dubious medical properties.
Neither the war on drugs nor the medical crisis can be taken seriously when billions are squandered to treat conditions and illnesses caused by culturally accepted drug abuse. When we are really serious about decreasing medical costs and drug abuse, we will end recreational consumption of alcohol, tobacco and marijuana.
Those are just unwanted engrams. Nothing a good auditing won't fix.
So interesting you would say this. L Ron Hubbard took a ton of drugs in post war Los Angeles and palled around with Satanists before he invented Scientology
Ron Hubbard Jr. remembers that when he was ten years old, his father, in an attempt to get his son in tune with his black magic worship, laced the young Hubbard's bubble gum with phenobarbital. According to Ron Jr. drugs were an important part of Ron Jr.'s growing up, as his father believed that they were the best way to get closer to Satan--the Antichrist of black magic. In January 1946, the two commenced a long and complex magical ritual called the "Babalon Working" (sic). This was intended to create nothing less than an elemental being. As far as Parsons? was concerned, the invocation worked. The elemental turned up two weeks later in the form of the beautiful blue-eyed, red-haired Marjorie Elizabeth Cameron, who became, after Parsons' death, the star of Kenneth Anger's 1965 cult-film Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome, friend of Dennis Hopper and Dean Stockwell, and prototype witch-biker. It is interesting to note that Cameron?s two brothers, her sister and also her father were to work at JPL, as if Project and People were knit by associations. As John Carter says in Sex and Rockets, Cameron was "sprung from Parsons' head like Sophia from the Godhead or Pallas Athena from Zeus". On February 26th, Parsons wrote to Crowley: "I have my elemental!" In April 1946, Parsons, Cameron, and Hubbard, acting as scribe, attempted the second part of the Babalon Working, which was intended to raise a "moonchild" in the manner described in Crowley?s novel of the same name, with Cameron the vessel for Parsons' magical seed. The mundane world intruded however, and the tricky Hubbard, despite his intense and apparently sincere involvement with the Babalon working, vanished with $10,000 of Parsons' money and Betty, who was no doubt peeved at Parsons' involvement with Cameron. Parsons eventually located the fleeing pair at sea, rented a room in Florida, and cast a spell upon them, whereupon Hubbard and Betty were nearly drowned in a storm. In 1955, the widowed Cameron, in the company of a group of bikers, severed her ties to the past and destroyed the Black Box of the Babalon Working that Parsons believed had brought her to him.
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Using a pain killer when you're not in pain. Medical marijuana "patients" do this all the time.
C'mon, MrLeRoy, even you can think of a number of examples.
So all recreational drug use is abuse?
"Often"? You have statistics on this?
LOL! (Took me a minute ...)
Not in the strict definition. If a drug has no other "use" than recreation, how can it be ab-used?
What's on your mind? Why do I get the feeling that you're more interested in trying to trip me up, rather than trying to understand what I'm saying.
Say something that will make me want to continue with you on this thread.
Not in the strict definition. If a drug has no other "use" than recreation, how can it be ab-used?
So what constitutes misuse/abuse of recreation-only drugs?
What's on your mind? Why do I get the feeling that you're more interested in trying to trip me up, rather than trying to understand what I'm saying.
Because you're paranoid. "Abuse" and "misuse" are vague terms; I want to know what you mean by them.
"Do you think alcohol should be banned on a national level?"Perhaps there is no such thing as a failure so dismal that no one wants to ever try it again.Yep, I do.
-Eric
You lose.
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Walters was in Las Vegas to convince Nevadans that legalizing the possession of small amounts of marijuana is a bad idea. [...] He said baby boomers might think it's harmless that their kids are experimenting with marijuana as they did. He said the marijuana sold to teenagers today is more potent and dangerous than the strain their parents used when they were young."This of course is like saying that beer should be banned because swilling grain alcohol can kill you. Obviously, in a free market reputable companies would properly label their products, but that never occurs to statists.
-Eric
It failed anyhow. First the states stopped enforcing the booze laws (started with NY for booze CA for pot). After that it was only a matter of time.
Society might call it "drug abuse', but it should just be called "illegal drug use".
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