Well, I see some interesting excuses for people to use illegal drugs. One guy writes that illegal drugs keep him from climbing a clock tower and killing people. A common response for people using illegal drugs is because people drink alcohol. I know, I don’t understand that one either. Taking illegal drugs to escape from reality is cowardice. Attempting to escape from reality has another name.....insanity. No culture values cowardice, yet we want to make it easier for people to use illegal drugs and behave in a cowardly manner. I see article after article and post after post every day on Free Republic lamenting how Democrats vote. Many people vote Democrat because they’re afraid. Obama “cares” about them. He’ll take care of them. Conservatives recognize the insanity of that type of thinking. But, here at Free Republic, many supposed conservatives are fine with people using illegal drugs to escape reality and behave in a cowardly manner. If you think that escaping from reality is a good thing, then look at the Democrat policies. They are unrealistic. But, for some here at Free Republic, the unrealistic Democrat policies are bad, but people escaping from reality is OK. That’s a gaping inconsistency. You want to know how to stop illegal drug use? Call illegal drug users what they are....cowards. Use the word that describes illegal drug use for what it is.....insanity. “No man is an island.” Every toke, every snort, every shot somebody attempting to escape reality takes affects me. They affect you. You can hope that you can live in your bunker and avoid them, but they vote. They influence others to escape reality. Our Republic requires brave people. Fight or surrender. There is no hiding. How many people successfully hid in the Soviet Union? None. Fight or surrender.
Drug use & alcohol use are one & the same, done for exactly the same reason - to get high. Alcohol is an intoxicant DRUG.
So, if drug users are cowards, escaping reality, then every beer drinker in America is a coward, escaping reality.
See what that idea gets you at a ballgame or office party!
“Attempting to escape from reality has another name.....insanity.”
If that were true, then we’d all be insane. Every person who drinks a beer, plays a video game, reads a work of fiction, goes to the movies, plays recreational sports, goes on a camping trip, etc. All of them, insane, according to your definition.
Or, maybe, it’s instead true that every human being needs some escape from reality, in part to maintain their sanity, and drugs are just an unhealthy one to choose.
Conservatives that are against the WOD are not touting drug abuse as a good thing. They simply understand the WOD is pointless and causes more problems than it solves:
-People that choose to play Russian roullette and abuse dangerous chemicals to escape reality WILL NEVER CARE about drug laws. It doesn't matter if these chemicals are legal or illegal.
-The same people don't care about stealing whatever it takes to escape reality. They will destroy someone’s $10,000 air conditioner to score a few hundred bucks worth of chemicals.
-Since the above people are so desperate, they will pay more for these chemicals than gold. You will NEVER stop people from selling something so profitable. Since there is no victim that will report the crimes, a dope dealer has a tiny chance of getting caught. A dope dealer can make more in one year than most people earn in decades. For these reasons, even nations that execute dope dealers have not stopped sales.
-Draconian drug laws are not only pointless for preventing abuse but they actually put everyone’s freedom at risk, even non users. We routinely abandon many constitutional rights and government restrictions to fight this pointless war. The government can now seize a “large” amount of cash from citizens until they prove they are innocent of drug sales. In some states, all it takes is a tiny dime-sized package to turn anyone into a felon. This cop didn’t even do time because he started talking about how common it is in the NYPD: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2095772/Cowboy-cop-Jason-Arbeeny-planted-crack-couples-car-seat-escapes-jail.html