I've heard of the rebellion argument for keeping drugs illegal which goes something like "part of the value of the drug-doing experience is that, because drugs are illegal/taboo, then the act of using makes people question authority and taboos. If drugs were legalized they would just become another commodified/domestic/boring experience."
and of course there's the literal interpretation of your statement, that keeping drugs illegal keeps stupid people from using them. I think that there are some cases this is true but obviously many cases where it is not true. Certainly it keeps really robotic conformist people from using drugs sometimes.
But it just occurred to me that there is a sort of perverse hipster argument that kind of relates to the rebellion argument. Basically "I am cool because I wear these clothes, listen to this music, and use these drugs. Squares are always copying my music and my clothes, but they will never be as cool as me because they are scared to do the drugs I do, or don't know cool enough people to obtain
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I'm waiting for the person who startles up and is all, "DRUGS? You want the KIDS to be taking DRUGS?!"
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and of course there's the literal interpretation of your statement, that keeping drugs illegal keeps stupid people from using them. I think that there are some cases this is true but obviously many cases where it is not true. Certainly it keeps really robotic conformist people from using drugs sometimes.
But it just occurred to me that there is a sort of perverse hipster argument that kind of relates to the rebellion argument. Basically "I am cool because I wear these clothes, listen to this music, and use these drugs. Squares are always copying my music and my clothes, but they will never be as cool as me because they are scared to do the drugs I do, or don't know cool enough people to obtain
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