Regarding drugs, most do not know that against which we struggle and therefore also does not know exactly what the reasons the real war. With the same ingenuity ignorant that many drugs used without a clear understanding of their risks and potential, others embrace the Cross without being aware of the damage it causes and which are impossible to reach your goals. Years of bigotry and misinformation have created a drug to which our societies are addicted: Prohibition. Without it, we feel helpless. Society seems to need your daily dose of arrests and imprisonments. The effects of this drug are losing a sense of reality and make us confuse causes with effects. We can not think what life would be without it, but, for most, the prospect is scary. Prohibitionist drug also needs to be used in increasing amounts to maintain its psychological effects. More prisons, more chases, more paranoia. Who sold us insist that life without her would be unbearable and that also has no side effects. Deceive us, as we have seen in previous chapters. Yet, we must recognize that this is a drug whose effects seduce: gives us explanations simple to the complex problems of our society frees us from the responsibility to choose for ourselves, we serve as an alibi to control dissident groups.
But it would be nice if we could abandon this harmful habit. The ban must end. The data are overwhelming against him and his failure is made, every day that passes more. Or is unmasked this policy or the consequences of failure will be used as reasons to maintain and increase repression. If you lose the battle against Prohibition, will have lost a battle for freedom, justice, personal autonomy, accountability and information. The prohibition is a way of thinking expansionist believed to be legitimate aim to save us from ourselves. The risk of spread to suppress other human activities and causing collateral damage similar to that caused in the drug issue is huge. How soon will snuff banned? What foods high in cholesterol? What about information, not to agree with the majority moral standards are considered dangerous to society (or Public Health)? Make our "war on drugs' in a 'peaceful coexistence with drugs' not only implies a change of policy but a change of thinking, a transformation of how we look now to the individuals within society, more like cogs in an impersonal all that you have to sacrifice it as autonomous entities with the right to pursue happiness without harming others.
drugs, banned or not, will not disappear. The man will have been for centuries and we will have to learn to live with them, as we learn to live with the intoxicating new chemical synthesis that occur. If we see drugs as evil entities that inevitably undermine health, wisdom, will and social structure, fear and misinformation will guide us along the path used: repression, drug adulteration, corruption, irresponsible use. Only if we choose to see them, without fear but with respect as they are different substances with potential and risks, we can choose the information, responsibility and self control.
must not forget that the 'drug problem' is but one of the infinite manifestations of an inherent conflict as old as humanity itself. Indeed, men and women are always struggling between the primacy of the collective or the individual, between the need for security and order, and personal and independent search of happiness, between the acceptance of official truths and politically correct and the desire to achieve for themselves the truth with free information, between the temptation to abandon their will to the 'masters' right' of Sallust and the need to feel free, sovereign and own their acts even if they may result in unintended consequences. The position we take before the drug issue will also be a position on the issues far more momentous, I just listed. That's what makes it so fascinating subject. It is obvious that now our irrational fear of drugs, there is much fear of our own autonomy. Thus, no fear, wanting to know to live with them and learn the lessons that can teach us, or lose part the ancestral fear of freedom.
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