the war against your children
Sunday, 19 June 2005 06:18 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
miriam_eJust thinking again about the hypocritical stupidity that is the current attitude to drugs:
Tell kids a bunch of lies about drugs, then when they find out and do the whole baby-bathwater thing and try to find out first-hand what is the big deal about drugs, our society washes its hands of them.
It is infuriatingly irresponsible to "educate" kids with a bunch of lies, and utterly criminal to condemn them when they become curious about the lies.
Our policy-makers should be in prison, not the kids who try to find out what all the damn fuss is about.
It is despicable that kids are not told that alcohol is more dangerous than heroin; that there is no excuse for anyone overdosing on heroin in the company of others. A heroin overdose simply means that the body forgets to breathe and quietly suffocates while the person dozes. Mouth-to-mouth resucitation will avoid death until a medical person can give a shot of apomorphine to instantly restore the victim to normal. Alcohol, on the other hand, is a dead end. Overdosing on it means brain death, from which there is no returning. And a deadly dose can be a surprisingly small amount.
All drugs should be legal and should come with honest information of the dangers and safety procedures involved in their use. The way to stop people using drugs is not to try to scare them away from demonised drugs, but to give enough knowledge to understand that drug use is actually unimportant and rather silly. It should be clear to kids why addiction develops and that it is the same mechanism as tolerance. They should also be aware that long-term changes in behavior and possibly in brain chemistry are also a risk of drug-use, but that nobody really knows what those changes might be. We are just starting to get some hints, but nobody really understands yet, because retarded policy-makers have prevented researchers from learning about it.
Recreational drugs really are a giant waste of time. I know because I wasted years learning first hand, but if I mmention this in normal company I see the shutters close behind people's eyes. The propaganda makes them think that I am one of those monsters and I see their eyes go to their valuables and their children thinking that both need to be kept away from me. The propaganda machine prevents those very people who could give the information from passing it on. How can society ever learn when we break that chain?
We need to let kids know why drugs are a waste, not just lay down rules to be blindly followed. What society are we building when our most curious and rebellious children are allowed to die and be imprisoned for being curious and rebelling against lies?
Tell kids a bunch of lies about drugs, then when they find out and do the whole baby-bathwater thing and try to find out first-hand what is the big deal about drugs, our society washes its hands of them.
It is infuriatingly irresponsible to "educate" kids with a bunch of lies, and utterly criminal to condemn them when they become curious about the lies.
Our policy-makers should be in prison, not the kids who try to find out what all the damn fuss is about.
It is despicable that kids are not told that alcohol is more dangerous than heroin; that there is no excuse for anyone overdosing on heroin in the company of others. A heroin overdose simply means that the body forgets to breathe and quietly suffocates while the person dozes. Mouth-to-mouth resucitation will avoid death until a medical person can give a shot of apomorphine to instantly restore the victim to normal. Alcohol, on the other hand, is a dead end. Overdosing on it means brain death, from which there is no returning. And a deadly dose can be a surprisingly small amount.
All drugs should be legal and should come with honest information of the dangers and safety procedures involved in their use. The way to stop people using drugs is not to try to scare them away from demonised drugs, but to give enough knowledge to understand that drug use is actually unimportant and rather silly. It should be clear to kids why addiction develops and that it is the same mechanism as tolerance. They should also be aware that long-term changes in behavior and possibly in brain chemistry are also a risk of drug-use, but that nobody really knows what those changes might be. We are just starting to get some hints, but nobody really understands yet, because retarded policy-makers have prevented researchers from learning about it.
Recreational drugs really are a giant waste of time. I know because I wasted years learning first hand, but if I mmention this in normal company I see the shutters close behind people's eyes. The propaganda makes them think that I am one of those monsters and I see their eyes go to their valuables and their children thinking that both need to be kept away from me. The propaganda machine prevents those very people who could give the information from passing it on. How can society ever learn when we break that chain?
We need to let kids know why drugs are a waste, not just lay down rules to be blindly followed. What society are we building when our most curious and rebellious children are allowed to die and be imprisoned for being curious and rebelling against lies?