Cocaine "is no worse than whiskey" and is only illegal because it comes from Latin America, said Colombian President Gustavo Petro, whose nation is the world's biggest cocaine producer and exporter.
While I don’t care about people who want to do drugs, I don’t believe for a moment that if cocaine didn’t become legalized for recreational use that it wouldn’t cause massive amounts of harm.
Speaking as someone who saw his father snort millions of dollars up his nose so he could appear functional while drinking like a fish all day, every day, and the damage it did on his family and future and prospects.
Our species isn’t ready for responsibility. When left to their own choices, people do not make good choices for themselves or others. We absolutely need shepherding by organized institutions and groups of thinking people who can make plans for our continued function and growth.
I don’t know if prohibition at all works for saving people from themselves, but I think we need a much larger effort broadly to get people to understand how their own minds and bodies work if nothing else. People still broadly have no clue how addiction works because they have no idea how their own brain works and the difference between feelings and facts. We’re dumber than ever as a species, and getting dumber. We are too easily compromised by outside influence to make good decisions for ourselves or our communities. It’s not going to get better. Nobody is coming.
While I don’t care about people who want to do drugs, I don’t believe for a moment that if cocaine didn’t become legalized for recreational use that it wouldn’t cause massive amounts of harm.
Speaking as someone who saw his father snort millions of dollars up his nose so he could appear functional while drinking like a fish all day, every day, and the damage it did on his family and future and prospects.
Our species isn’t ready for responsibility. When left to their own choices, people do not make good choices for themselves or others. We absolutely need shepherding by organized institutions and groups of thinking people who can make plans for our continued function and growth.
I don’t know if prohibition at all works for saving people from themselves, but I think we need a much larger effort broadly to get people to understand how their own minds and bodies work if nothing else. People still broadly have no clue how addiction works because they have no idea how their own brain works and the difference between feelings and facts. We’re dumber than ever as a species, and getting dumber. We are too easily compromised by outside influence to make good decisions for ourselves or our communities. It’s not going to get better. Nobody is coming.