Quote Originally Posted by Nullific
I did some coke last night and though the buzz had worn off I was laying in bed reviewing an array of drug legalization arguments in my mind. Maybe I am obsessed, but among the thoughts was that every single American for the past hundred years has been fed by their government propaganda on the subject until this present day.
Every citizen of the United States and the majority of the world wide population has been fed exaggerations, half-truths and down right lies about drugs and drug use. Many of them fail to see now how it is the laws and not the actual drugs that are leading to many of the negative consequences of drug use. In essence, everything is in chaos.
Then before my very consciousness a new truth unfolded and I now care less if a person thinks that drugs are 'bad'. If a person thinks drugs are bad, well that is an opinion to which all men are entitled to. It can be argued, even so that drugs are illegal and solid evidence on the health-oriented consequences of their use is limited.
What is fact and what matters most to me is that drug prohibition has failed. Proof of this lies most everywhere you look. Step into any highschool in America, ask around and you'll soon find the drugs you're looking for because the fact is that most drug dealers don't check ID and many end-user drug dealers are minors themselves.
Go to any major city and walk down any street where you'll see the little plastic baggies and syringes. Look at the statistics and you'll see how the purity of cocaine has increased while the price has declined, despite the billions of dollars the government spent spraying herbicides on crops of coca.
So the next time a person tells me that drugs are bad I will proclaim that is their opinion while the fact is that drug prohibition has failed. Perhaps if enough people begin to realize that drug prohibition is a failure while maintaining that drugs are 'bad', the route to legalization will be a quicker one. And perhaps upon legalization more people will realize that the drugs weren't bad at all and it was the law all along.
Even so, a cease in prohibition is unlikely to result in a cease of drug-addiction and ignorance of the subject at hand. The hole we've dug ourselves in is much too deep to be solved by such a trivial attempt at reformation. I use the word trivial, because in order to reach our much sought-after pipe dream of the majority's enlightenment, we would need to be in a position to distribute the facts, and have them received by individuals who are capable of doing so without bias. Unfortunately, our media, and even our textbooks, prove that we are not capable of making this happen. We have ignorance and idle minds to contend with, and we all know how powerful - and dangerous - those can be.