Gerhard, Clarke and all,
Gerhard,
I quite agree with you that music is definitely a static pattern of quality,
no no danger there. I wonder though if psychedelic music would have been
invented without the use of pschyedelic substances? Perhaps but perhaps
not. I think this underscores my point that drugs can produce something
other than degeneration.
Clarke,
While 'organized' crime existed in some forms prior to prohibition,
prohibition opened up a huge resevoir of profit to criminal organization and
certainly spawned the 'modern' organized crime syndicate.
Clarke wrote:
What if your taste for Snickers bars caused you to break into peoples'
houses and rob them or kill them, as those with a craving for crack cocaine
tend to do?
But would you prosecute me for my love of sugar or because I murdered
people? I don't see a problem prosecuting people for murder but if people
choose to do something to their bodies that I didapprove of I see no reason
to incarcerate them. I don't want a tatoo but I don't think that people
that do are criminals. Is there any doubt that if these substances were
legalized that junkies would no longer need to steal to support their
habits? I think not. Millions, and I do mean millions, of people get up go
to work and then come home and get stoned. Prominent businessmen were
junkies in New York up to the passage of the Harrison Naroctic act, after
that they were criminals. Just for the record how many drug users have you
met weren't in prison?
Clarke wrote:
Speaking from experience, I worked in our local prison system for a couple
of years and never encountered an individual convicted solely of drug abuse.
When I think of the US prison system I feel revulsion and nausea. Yeah the
land of free, right. You hear a lot of talk about freedom but what people
usually mean is freedom to be just like they are. No doubt! The state
makes a substance illegal and the prices sky-rocket to levels where the poor
junkie has got to steal 'cause they're never going to make enough at a
straight job to continue their habit. If your not robbin' or rapin' or
wreckin' what you do in your own home behind closed doors (possibly with
other consenting adults) is not of the state's damn business.
Clarke wrote:
Absolutely. We may not share the same musical taste, but I love Jimi
Hendrix, Janis Joplin, and Jim Morrison!!!
Perhaps your not such a bad person after all. Morrison was a big role model
for me when I was younger. Jim and Jimi created music (for a while at
least) that the world would be poorer without. Given Achilles choice, what
would you choose? These substances can be used to good effect without
destroying your life.
"out here on the perimiter there are no stars, out here we is stoned,
immaculate." - morrison
AreteLaugh/Glen
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