Day 02 - Your views on drugs and alcohol

Okay, so, today was supposed to be about "where i'd like to be in 10 years" but to avoid such a self-absorbed entry after the previous self-absorbed entry, I'll skip a day and probably go back to it at another time. Talking about myself all of the time can only get so interesting for a blog.

So here goes day 2

Day 02 - Your views on drugs and alcohol
Drugs and alcohol. Alcohol and drugs. Where to begin? This would have been a better discussion for yesterday in celebration for the prohibition repeal, but what's done is done.
Well, speaking generally, drugs can be both good and bad. Some are more dangerous than others, which is an issue, and people are not informed enough about them. So, these factors are contributors to the issues surrounding drugs. Government is not accepting enough to the idea of them, to the point where they do not allow testing of them, and so the population remains ignorant to their capabilities. We live in an uptight, fear motivating country.
I've been listening to the Joe Rogan Experience Podcast and after listening to many discussions on the topics of drugs, I have come to the conclusion that drugs, especially psychedelics, are more often abused because of the lack of knowledge of their effects. What advice could be given to those is to research anything before consumption and respect the process. What would be cool is if there were guides for these experiences much like in south america with ayawaska. It would be much safer, people would learn how much and what to consume and what the effects would be.
Weed is considered an issue by the government but in comparison to something like alcohol, it is significantly less harmful, though alcohol is legal. This is something that the potheads are in a huff about. I get it. I don't smoke weeds, but I would be just as upset is alcohol was illegal and pot was legal. Things are moving in the right direction for those people considering holding weed is now about as wrong as a parking ticket. One thing that I think is holding the US of A back from legalizing the marajawayway is taxation. Since alcohol and tobacco are taxed they are A-okay, even though they can be more addictive and many times over more harmful than weeds.
Alcohol is my only "drug" of choice. Nobody judges the occasional drinkers as much as the other drug users. What I've never understood is the alcoholics. I could never imagine just drinking heavily everyday. Do they not dehydrate? What's the deal? People that smoke weed can do it everyday and function, but drinking everyday? That would be crazy.
So what do we do with the people that are addicted to something like crack or whatever? Is there a cure? Rehab may get them off but they always seem to get back on. They just keep cycling the off and on drug lifestyle. I heard recently, that mushrooms could be used to "reset" the human mind, however I'm not sure if this was a study from years ago. higher yet safe amounts of mushrooms were thought to be used to cure addiction of many kinds. Again, I'm not sure what the details were on that. So don't go taking viscous amounts of shrooms to cure your addiction to Dungeons or Dragons or whatever your problem is. Just saying. Anyway the US restricts testing of these things so we'll never really know.

I need to stop to nap before work. Sorry this couldn't have been funnier. Wait, no I'm not.

Be cool,
Ross