You are a slave, but have a cig

[Acid_Flux]

If we look at ourselves as being under a government of distraction and control it becomes quite apparent why some drugs have been banned whilst others have not.

There is no doubt in my mind that cigarettes and alcohol are far more destructive drugs than weed, acid and shrooms…yet these drugs are legal whilst the latter ones aren’t. Why?

Alcohol is legal because it makes a great deal of money for huge corporations and the government. It also keeps us distracted and entertained without thinking. Getting drunk is a form of escapism that is needed in this cut-throat capitalist society, and so the government permits it. It dumbs down the masses.

Weed on the other is not permitted since it makes you “lazy” and “unproductive.” The government can not have a bunch of lazy unproductive citizens in their capitalist society. We need to work work work and make lots of money. “Lazy” and “unproductive” here are very relative terms. As Bill Hicks says;

"They lie about marijuana. Tell you pot-smoking makes you unmotivated. Lie! When you're high, you can do everything you normally do, just as well. You just realize that it's not worth the fucking effort. There is a difference. Sure I could get up every day at dawn and go to a job that does not inspire me creatively at all. Or, I could get up at noon and learn to play the sitar' "

Cigarettes are legal because the government knows that we are constantly on edge and so stressed out running this 9 to 5 that we need some sort of coping mechanism just to get through the fucking day. And so these death sticks are legal.

LSD on the other hand, a drug that has only killed one person in the history of its creation (the guy shot up 10 0000 times the recommended amount into his veins) is illegal. And why? Because LSD makes you a questioning, free thinking individual. The government can’t have a bunch of enlightened rebellious people running around messing with their system.

Some people seem to think that these drugs have been banned because the government “cares about our welfare.” Do not fool yourselves. The government does not give a fuck about your welfare. Alcohol and cigarettes are probably the deadliest and most addictive substances out there, and they legalized those. Why would you assume they’d care enough to ban othes?

I do think that substances such as heroin , meth etc are rightly banned since they are physically destructive. Yet at the same time I don’t think the government banned them because of that. They were banned because, yet again, they make people unproductive. It veers people off “life” and the “American dream.” As they so aptly put it in Trainspotting.:


“Choose life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family. Choose a fucking big television, Choose washing machines, cars, compact disc players, and electrical tin openers. Choose good health, low cholesterol and dental insurance. Choose fixed- interest mortgage repayments. Choose a starter home. Choose your friends. Choose leisure wear and matching luggage. Choose a three piece suite on hire purchase in a range of fucking fabrics. Choose DIY and wondering who you are on a Sunday morning. Choose sitting on that couch watching mind-numbing sprit- crushing game shows, stuffing fucking junk food into your mouth. Choose rotting away at the end of it all, pishing you last in a miserable home, nothing more than an embarrassment to the selfish, fucked-up brats you have spawned to replace yourself. Choose your future. Choose life... But why would I want to do a thing like that?”

So I am probably wrong about all of this, and maybe, just maybe I am right.

I’m not saying that everything should be banned, nor am I saying that everything should be legalized…I just think it’s interesting to look past the propaganda and bullshit that is drug legislation and realise just why the government banned some substances and legalized others. It’s all just distraction and control.
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