Reflections | snoitcelfeR

Even with the most specific of definitions, drugs are almost invariably numerous.  To me, a drug is anything that can change how the body acts from its normal state.  Of course, even with this definition, its impossible to define normal, becuase food is included in my definition of drug.  Despite this, I still hold that just about anything (so long as it has an effect on the body or mind) can be considered a drug.  Drugs can be divided into categories, simply for means of clarification and nomenclature.  There’s different degrees of psychoactive, non-psychoactive, and everything in between.  The number of drugs are numerous, so let them be innumerable and let their definition be all-encompassing.

My throught on drugs hasn’t changed a considerable amount.  I wish not to sound condescending in saying this, but I feel I had a bit more knowledge of drugs than most going into the class.  I did have quite an enjoyable time when it came to having to make my views concrete.  Having never done this before, I feel I have a better understanding on what I feel drugs are and the consequences of their usage.

(Henceforth, replace “drugs” with what an average person thinks of “drugs” as.)

I feel that largely, the populace is ignorant to the truth about drugs.  For most, knowledge of drugs is limited to what has been heard in anti-drug campaigns, friends, and hear-say.  If one thing can be given to the populace, its facts, numbers, and statistics.  Omit the interpretation of data and feed facts.  Only then can one truly grasp the magnitude or accuteness of a drug and its effects.  If I had to pick one thing though… its to never accept anything that you haven’t concluded yourself.  Buddha once said something similar: “Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.”  And why should we?  Everybody has their own agenda, even if they assert they dont.  Education is the key to understanding, but to spoon feed one’s idea of “understanding” is to undermine progress.

From a purely Darwinistic view, drugs are quite the helping hand for society.  They help weed out the (usually) unsuccessful, or at bare minimal, make it so there are less mouths to feed.  Although this may be true, this statement is completely detached from human spirit and empathy.  Its saddening to see the damage that drugs have brought, but its also awe inspiring how much culture, history, and progress has been made becuase of them.  Drugs, and all the joyous and ill effects they bring upon humanity, are here to stay.  There are no questions about this; no doubts in my mind.  For every negative aspect there are for drugs, there have been (usually) considerable more advances.  I hate to referr the reader to other material, but there’s simply so much to say about the positive and negative aspects of drugs that (even in short summation) it would take volumes of books to cover.

Drugs are good.

They may not be good for you; they may even be bad for society.

But in a strange way, its bettered the world as a whole.

Can I get “huzzah drugs”?  No?  I guess that would be pushing it, what with no strings being attached.

-M.

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