And to get back OT. In DB's Earth that behaviour leading to satisfaction of the urge that lets the body produce enorfins is very much frowned upon. And even meditation is seen as a form of serious drugabuse.-----Original Message-----
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Behalf Of Doug Pensinger
So the war on drugs is an attempt to stamp out human inclination by
force. Why don't we spend the huge amounts of money we now waste
trying to fight our inclinations on figuring out _why_ we want to
get high and either eliminate the urge in a scientific manner or
cater to it in a way that is less disruptive?
This becomes very troublesome -- eliminating the urge would mean eliminating the urge to do anything that causes our bodies to produce endorphins. That would make us less than human.
Personally, I see winking out by using any kind of drug (including tobacco and alcohol) as a choice. And I feel that anybody who cannot resist the urge at least has a duty to determin if that is the way he/she wants to live. Also I'd like them to find a way to minimise impact of their habit on anybody elses lives.
One of the problems in todays society (especially those with strong anti-drug laws) is that a person doesn't have the time to deal with the (socially not accepted forms of ) addiction itself either way. Most of the lucid time is spent acquiring money to support the habit. They float so to speak from point to point slipping further and further away from the regular lucid world.
And then there is the medicinal use of cannabis.
Sonja GCU: As good as it gets.
Sonja
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