Message-ID: <Pine.A32.3.91.960923184350.64073G-100000@hector> Date: Mon, 23 Sep 1996 18:54:35 -0600 From: Just Me! <mailto:juwandem@NMSU.EDU> Subject: Re: NEED TO LEGALIZE DRUGS + CARS To: Multiple recipients of list DEVEL-L <mailto:DEVEL-L@AMERICAN.EDU>
On Mon, 23 Sep 1996, Matthew Musial wrote: ................> > My point is this: The exportation and glamorization of the United
> States through the medium of movies and imitative soap operas throughout the
> world will create the desire to emulate the Culture (?) of our society: i.e.
> rampant, unexamined, unbridaled, unsustainable, oil-dependant, poluting
> Consumerism and the lionization of those who are rich, powerful, famous and
> probably not good at being philanthropic, altruistic, or even freinds! I
> believe it is the frustrations of these ambitions of monetary success (from a
> lack of education?) that create the drug problems in the United States, not
> the drugs themselves.
Dear friend Matthew, it looks to me that you are not disagreeing at all! And I quite agree with the points you've made . > Some people have postulated that drugs become a tremendous social problem
> when we refine, distill, and otherwise make them concentrated in potency.
> What do think?
I agree again, suffices to take a look at cigarrettes, since the tabacco plant in its natural form has many good and healthy uses just as the coca leaves.
The greatest problem with our societies is that they confound drug legalization with consenting its use, two completely different issues, which of course are wrongfully interpreted and used by our political leaders.
Best regards,
J.C. Van den Bergh