 Originally Posted by Universal Mind
I disagree. The psychedelic drugs we have been talking about are not that type of drug. Nobody will every honestly go play mailbox baseball, mutilate a dog, run over an old lady, slap a cop, flash a group of cheerleaders, or steal a bulldozer and go driving down the road and say, "But I was on mushrooms," or, "Oh, that's because I was all tripped out on salvia," or, "I was in the mood to act like a boy scout until I smoked that hit of DMT." That is not the ballpark we are in here. Alcohol, crystal meth, xanax, cocaine, and heroin will be used in that way. The psychedelics we have been talking about are in a completely different league.
I see what you are saying because if we are to universalise a policy to include all 'drugs' then we ought to also ommit DXM and cough medication, right? So, I think the problem is the sake of universal treatment and how many people will argue over the properties of drugs compared to others. Of course, some drugs are beneficial and others are harmful. However, others are beneficial and deadly depending on the dosage.
With all this in mind, I think we can agree that the best means is truly to legalise drugs in order to regulate them with simultaneous education on them. For example, if I want to go buy heroin, I will get something similar on the cigarette packages to inform me of the consequences and what it does (also likely how to take it). Of course, this is not with the intent to deter peoples choice to take the drug, but to let them know that their free choice will have consequences.
Any further acts, like driving a car and killing people, would be separated so that it can be treated appropriately. For example, if I took that heroin, which warned me that it would inebriate me, then I should also take responsibility for hurting others while my decision process was inebriated.
Right?
Probability is what is ultimately relevant here. The specific issue we have been discussing lately is public safety. Plus, once that golf ball is in the air, the hitter no longer has control of it. That could be his excuse. If the ball hits somebody in the head and kills him, he is just as dead as he would be if he had been run over and killed by somebody on salvia or if a guy on a three wheeler came blasting off a trail and ran into him and killed him. The end result is what it is, no matter what caused it. And two equal amounts of danger of differing types are still equal amounts of danger, just like a pound of iron weighs the same as a pound of feathers.
lol yes.. but try and get the pound of feather to have terminal velocity. :p
I think these are decent grounds to rest on. I wish Howie would respond instead of running away. *Shakes fist*
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