When we consider drugs, it need not be from a sniveling sociological perspective. We of course know the common detractors against drug usage, and vices more generally. They quicken the body’s pace to death, spur violent or deviant behaviors, and contribute to a cultural entropy during periods of normalization. As we also know from general attempts to limit their production and proliferation, the human desire to seek stimulation and experience cannot be truly brought to heel, and this includes all of the modes which that desire blossoms from. Not to say that the legal system should give up entirely on the problem, but the question of whether the individual should limit his intake is a different question than whether drugs are good or bad (nothing is quite so simple) in general. I do not write for general audiences, problems, or concerns. I am at once concerned with the individual insofar as this is the soil from which the population and audience (such as the one being addressed here) spring from. In order to solve a diseased plant, we must look to the skies and soil.
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