Great breakdown of the 'War on [Some] Drugs [Users]' insanity, the evolution of consciousness, the positive uses of psychedelics, the technological singularity, the fallacy of authority, broken political systems, geopolitics and, of course, the meaning of life.
Still trying to watch this whole thing... one things I didn't understand though: Is he saying (towards the beginning) that meth, like pot, isn't as bad as we're being told?
ReplyDeleteI'll throw a copy of the YouTube vid in your folder, for next transfer, you can watch it all the way through. My impression of what he's saying [I'm assuming about 2m in is what you're talking about] is that people might tend to discredit the warnings about the dangers of meth when they find for themselves that the warnings about the dangers of marijuana - from the same sources - are obvious fabrications.
DeleteMy personal opinion is that, yes, "meth, like pot, isn't as bad as we're being told." The dangers of methamphetamines, while real, have been overblown and propagandized to ridiculous degrees. The same way that crack cocaine was in the 80s and marijuana has been since the '30s [see: "Reefer Madness" etc.] Methamphetamines remain FDA approved for use for ADHD, narcolepsy, depression & obesity. Just like Marinol is FDA approved for all the things the government will tell you marijuana is no good for. Showing how stupid people use drugs in stupid ways as a reason for keeping them illegal is absurdist lowest common denominator nonsense. But I'm of the inclination that all substances should be decriminalized/legalized, then you hold people responsible for their actions, not their biochemical makeup, and people who do become addicted can have their health problems dealt with without having to go to jail. Some light reading on the "meth scare" if so inclined -
http://www.thefix.com/content/brain-holes-and-other-meth-myths
http://reason.com/archives/2005/09/02/is-meth-a-plague-a-wildfire-or
http://meth-kills.org/meth-myths.html
http://reason.com/blog/2011/11/17/research-review-questions-warnings-about
http://reason.com/blog/2005/03/28/misleading-up-to-100-percent-o
Thanks. I also got that the reported dangers of meth could be discredited by the truth about marijuana. I look forward to seeing the rest of it!
ReplyDeleteThanks for the links. Will follow up...