imaguitargod said:Also there’s the control thing. The government very much has this adjenda of limiting knowledge and scolding those that think for themselves. They want people to be dependent on them, that way they will always hold control. This is one of the main reasons that psychedelic drugs have been outlawed. They open your mind up, make you see things and understand things on a deeper level. It was causing people to reject their dependence and say, “You don’t control me, I don’t need your system, I have my own”. That’s bad mojo in their eyes.
see, this is where you always lose me. i seriously don't think that's why psychedelic drugs are illegal (you've said this a couple times...).
i'm not saying the real reasons are much better, i'm fairly certain it's cuz of drug related deaths (and i'm not trying to get into a debate on whether you can OD on psychedelics, lets be honest here people on drugs get into accidents...), and again not really from an altruistic point of view...if you die young they lose out on your lifetimes contribution to GDP - that's how government assigns a value to human life (currently estimated at between four and seven million bucks. i am not making this up, this is how they do feasibility studies...) so they just look at the numbers and see which is more costly, the extra deaths if it were legal or the forgone excise taxes they could be collecting (cuz if it were legal you can be sure they will tax it).
alcohol and tobacco are ok in these regards (or irregardless of this )cuz they ussually kill you slow and generally when you're close to retirement anyways so then they don't have to pay your cpp (what is that in the states, social security?).
actually, i think they can control you more if they did make these drugs legal, they'd regulate it just like they do booze and smokes. they'd probably require licensing to go collect anything from nature, and/or they'd have production permits which would go to large corporations, and if you got into an accident you'd still need their doctors and the big business insurance you folks have, and fox news would still exist even tho your mind would be free.
honestly, you're better off with them being illegal. unless you get caught that is...