Say No to Drugs & Say Yes to Free Legal Entheogens (YouTube: NeuroSoup)

The decriminalization of drugs is an interesting debate. On one hand drugs like meth, heroin, etc. should be illegal. However, just because a drug causes certain temporary/long-lasting psychological effects does not mean it should be made illegal. Drugs like weed, hallucinogenic mushrooms, LSD, and ecstasy—should, at least in my opinion—be legal. While these drugs may have some harmful effects, so does alcohol, cigarettes,  fast food. And of course let's not forget sitting on our fat lazy asses using the computer for the majority of our waking hours while eating potato chips.

You can only live this life once, if things like mind altering drugs that can bring on 'spiritual' experiences and outside-of-the-box perspectives, I see no harm to society (it may even benefit it). We humans seek after drugs to achieve different states of consciousness for a variety of reasons; we should intelligently embrace this desire. Many citizens view altering consciousness as 'evil' due to a goal of 'religious moral conformity' within their society; there is no secular reason that many mind altering substances are illegal. If this country (the United States) were a theocracy, then perhaps religious views would be relevant, however it is not.

The law makers of the past that decided to make nearly all mind-altering substances illegal did not respect the separation of church and state. We must not respect their close-minded stupidity by pushing for the decriminalization of many relatively harmless drugs.

While I personally do not do any drugs (aside from the occasional alcoholic drink)—in a country that is suppose to be free, I should be able to smoke marijuana if I wanted to. If drugs like marijuana were made legal, I probably would try it out of curiosity, but I would probably not do it all that much (like drinking)—the point is that I shouldn't have 'big brother' telling me not to do something which is virtually harmless. This is what we get by having a two-party political system: both parties are fighting for power, which leads to obvious problems. I think I'm going to start voting for the third party candidates just out of principle—both the democrats and republicans are way too power-hungry. I consider them both to be enemies of the people, and as they say: "the enemy of my enemy is my friend". Well, I think that is enough ranting for today :P