>I started to go on a rant about how
>it's dumb to arrest children for using drugs
>because that fucks up their life more than a drug can.
>

^ 100% Correct.


I am not sure if I agree with the rest of your post. Several of those "assumptions" are real problems.

In Ancient high cultures drugs were used and only given to those who had earned the right to use them, and to those seeking knowledge and experience of themselves and their creator. Educated and mature people. The young were slowly indoctrinated through education and ultimately experience.

Our bodies operate on chemicals. We are full of "drugs" that the government deems illegal. Many drugs do not deliver anything foreign into your blood stream, some simply open the flood gates to your own natural resources of chemicals that stimulate pleasure.

Altering one's consciousness is a good path to the knowledge of self as it opens your eyes to possibilities and realities that your senses cannot easily detect on their own. Scientific instruments which measure radiation in the universe are extensions of our senses. Drugs can be used as extensions of our senses to perceive our reality, however, drugs can also be used to great despair.

You must be equipped with a good head on your shoulders before you start dabbling with drugs. If we lived in a society which educated people on the benefits and dangers of drugs, decriminalized them and offered regulated, clean doses. We would eliminate virtually all overdose problems as overdoses usually occur when a "dirty" chemical is mixed up with the real substance, or if someone tries to pass it off as the real thing. ie. fentanyl as heroin, bath salts as mdma, etc.

Drug withdrawals are also over hyped in television and movies. A heroin withdrawal is on par with a flu, not a gut wrenching tormenting nightmare. Heroin, cocaine, and other hard drugs are far less toxic than alcohol, which is the hardest drug of them all, is legal, impairs judgement the most, is a narcotic, and damages the most organs while killing the most brain cells.

~Experience is the currency of the soul.