Julius_Van_Der_Beak
Up the Wolves
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Do you know a lot about Epigenetics and the consequence across historical time of trends in mind or physiology altering substances?
Could you point me to some studies done on one that's legally available in most countries? Like alcohol, for instance?
Life is tough and it's not my place to judge the things people do to try and make it tolerable. Certainly, drugs can cause health problems, but the way to deal with that is through harm reduction rather than the draconian laws. Joe Biden's anti-ecstasy crusade involved penalizing those who attempted harm reduction problems.
Drug abuse should be treated as a medical issue rather than a criminal issue. I suspect the reason it came to be treated as such is a combination of the role of racism as well as the inescapable "culture war" residue left over from the 1960s.
I was subject to a great deal of anti-drug propaganda in elementary school in the 1990s and it was completely ineffectual, by the way. I'm someone who has never tried anything harder than marijuana (which was also extremely demonized), but I know lots of people who haven't who are around the same age and were undoubtedly subject to the same propaganda. I should note that many of those people seem to be doing very well in life considering the present moment, although that's due in part to the fact that they are not of a race that would have been targeted as a result of the draconian drug laws in place.