Our technology is so amazing that production and distribution can make this easily at arm’s reach. That is different than most of recorded history. Our technology is so amazing that NEW compounds have been made/created that when used will totally debilitate a person.
Even those who seek legalization should be forced morally to support CONTROLLED ACCESS and not open access.
I’ve long wanted to see a middle ground where doctors would be charged with the responsibility to choose what medications are appropriate for people, so long as it is not blatantly intended for harm. That would go for things not blessed by the FDA, as well as medicinal uses of things that are street drugs.
But this is details. What is needed in general is a gospel enlightenment.
Not so much for marijuana - plants grow more or less as they have always grown.
Our technology is so amazing that NEW compounds have been made/created that when used will totally debilitate a person.
And the motivation to make and use these new compounds was provided largely by the ban on older substances.
Even those who seek legalization should be forced morally to support CONTROLLED ACCESS and not open access.
That's what I support, for alcohol and other drugs.
We are entering an incredibly dangerous period.
And drugs aren't the only problem. The interaction of technology and pornography is another area where addiction will be out of control.
I'm very uncomfortable with that line of reasoning: it could be exactly applied to firearms — after all, we now have firearms that are superior in accuracy, ease-of-use, portability and (with modern manufacturing, soon to be enhanced/replaced via 3-D printing) availability.
I cannot condone CONTROLLED ACCESS of firearms precisely because those controlling the access will not allow them to be used when/if they should be used against that controlling authority
; moreover, to endorse controlled access WRT drugs is to endorse the eradication of free-will and impose infantalization upon society.
“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. They may be more likely to go to Heaven yet at the same time likelier to make a Hell of earth. This very kindness stings with intolerable insult. To be "cured" against one's will and cured of states which we may not regard as disease is to be put on a level of those who have not yet reached the age of reason or those who never will; to be classed with infants, imbeciles, and domestic animals.”
— C. S. Lewis