“When I went into policing I thought addicts had made the mistake of trying drugs and had no willpower to stop. Actually, problematic drug users – or at least all the ones I knew – were self medicating. Most of the heroin users I knew were self-medicating for childhood trauma, whether physical or sexual. As an undercover officer I spent a great deal of time getting to know these people.
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I have been saying that for over 12 years.
What I’m looking for now is a Christian explanation for making war on abused children.
I posed the “Christian” question to some “Christian” blogs. It just made the Christians angry. The thinking likely is “We are Christians. Therefor any program we favor is by definition – moral.” Thus I’m questioning the unquestionable.
But take heart my friends.
“A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.” – Max Planck
The same is true for new moral truths. Like the abolition of slavery. Or Prohibition can’t work.
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While you are at it, ask the same question of the non-religious supporters of prohibition (there are lots of them).
I keep thinking I should write a drug-prohibition filk based on Both Sides Now.
Gary North used to be a power (pre “OMG the MILLENIUM BUG”). Now he’s mostly a footnote.
You are after the wrong religion.
The 40 years in the desert to reach the promised land… it doesn’t take 40 years to walk from Cairo to Tel Aviv, it took 40 years for the old generation to pass away.
Kathy,
I do hang out with “those people”. They are the ones keeping the Republican Party the Prohibitionist Party. Same as they did in 1932.
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/why-some-people-cant-handle-their-weed
Interesting. I’ve smoked a metric buttload of pot since I was a teenager and I’ve never had any of these kind of problems, it just makes me feel great. My sister won’t smoke because she gets paranoid, and I know we’re very similar genetically. I wonder what the determining factor is?
There are really only two non-religious reasons for prohibition;
1)Drugs’re bad, m’kay
2)Drugs have always been illegal
Both nonsense, of course. Anything can be bad if abused enough. People have died from drinking too much water. Do we need water control?
Only if “always” means 1907 for opiates and 1936 for pot.
Better living through chemistry!