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Bookhoard wrote:

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Besides, if recreational drugs are decriminalized, you'll have corporations working to make them safer and less addictive. But that would make sense, so it'll never happen. Instead we'll lose in Afghanistan and will end up having to occupy Mexico.

Well, no, this makes sense, but from only one perspective: an essentially Puritan loathing of frivolity and anything that distracts too much from God and work. Many people, and many Americans, are deeply and constantly concerned about how much fun their neighbors are having and consider this a very serious moral issue. That's what this is about, intoxication being intrinsically evil, same as Prohibition, and small wonder since the same people behind that awesome also drove the adoption of the Unified Narcotic Act, back in the twenties and thirties.

You can hate the sentiment or laugh at it or whatever, but you can't dismiss it, because the plain fact is that we are surrounded by people who consider themselves watchdogs at all times making sure nobody gets too high and silly, because it's an affront to life itself.

Similar shit drives these gay marriage battles, IMO. I don't know how we become a nation less riddled with killjoys and snitches whose greatest concern is what the people next door do when they're relaxing or screwing, I really don't. Get them all high and laid, maybe?