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Prohibition: How can we be free if we can't decide what we do with our own bodies?

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*Eman333 Aug 21, 2012 Professional Photographer

Does it seem odd to you that we live in a free society where one human can tell another human what they can and can't ingest, inject or inhale into their own body? The mere act of growing a particular plant for personal consumption can land a person in prison; which to me, is just insane.

I'm not referring to any particular plant here; There are many out there. We are treated like children and told we are not allowed to touch these substances.

How do you feel about this? Even if you do not use any of these substances, how do you justify this?

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~meanus Nov 2, 2012

why don't you ask Mayor Bloomberg...he wants control over what you drink

~Kurodaia-Chan Nov 1, 2012 Student Digital Artist

I see what you mean but these things can cause harm to ones body, course there is choice but society doesnt see that people chose to do bad things when its bad, they want the challenge and adventure. People know its bad but they continue to do it anyways. It has a right to ban it but i think its taking away freedom but....i think society just wants people to do safe and good ways of getting stuff to feed themselves or families...because its kind of a bad influence for children

~mz7 Oct 26, 2012 Hobbyist Photographer

Aside from government laws and regulations, in general, its all a matter of moral. It seems selfish to be so liberal to do one's will without care of the outcome. Cause and effect rules our actions, and we don't live in this world alone after all. What we do affects others in a positive or negative way, always. God is wise to command us to love our neighbor like our self. The lack of love and care for each other will be the end of humanity.

~taylor17387 Sep 28, 2012 Hobbyist Traditional Artist

Maybe there's some religious background behind this? Like the idea that commiting suicide is a sin, or that your body is given by God and thus you have to respect it, because it's not completely "yours"? Probably those that ban drugs aren't religious or anything, but these traditional beliefs may still work in their subconscious.

But yes, the state treats citizens like children; they must think that if they don't make a safe path for us, removing and banning every danger, we'll fall from a cliff like lemmings or something.
Just think about the general smoking ban in ALL bars, restaurants or pubs. Why don't they just leave the decission about smoking to the bar owner? If he wants to have smoke in his bar, then let him. Do they really think that non-smokers will enter the bar like zombies and die of lung cancer if they don't ban smoke in each and every place in town!?

~stryderq Sep 27, 2012

only started to use your brain now eh? it's called "thinking", not encouraged in modern media and education.

~RestInMotion Sep 27, 2012

Thinking isn't encouraged in education?

~stryderq Sep 27, 2012

if you could think for yourself my friend, you wouldn't even have to ask that question now would you.

~RestInMotion Sep 27, 2012

Lmao. Good stuff. Education is a conspiracy now. Trying to keep you down with evolution and math.

~stryderq Sep 27, 2012

hehe

~7h9tj4 Sep 13, 2012 Hobbyist

My impression has always been that laws are created to impress upon idiots that they should not do certain things, when ultimately those things will be done by individuals of adequate intelligence and (or?) will simply for experience's sake. Eventually one comes to understand the arbitrary nature of laws- civil disobedience is freedom. I do not agree with restricting the use of certain chemicals or practices because of the intellectual coddling that goes along with it. I believe such restriction promotes an infantile understanding of the world, a lack of genuine common sense. Should all drugs be legal? Some things need not be experienced to know they are destructive like addiction and war. Are drugs for everyone? Not everyone is capable of having a mind altering experience. Some psychedelics can be very enriching. Many stimulants and depressants can ruin lives. The most profound contradiction I see in all of this is the overwhelming confidence placed in corporate drugs which often seek to emulate properties of naturally derived counterparts at astoundingly higher cost and risk with lower efficiency. Are corporate drugs acceptable because we're consumerists? Are natural drugs shunned because we don't know better? What's a drug and what's a beer?

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