Okay, to be clear, I’m not actually saying you should do drugs. I just found this picture funny and kind of insightful. I intended the title not to be a command, but as an 'if this then that" observation.
I got caught up in cocaine, speed and alcohol for a while and instead of a becoming leftist it set me up for a lifetime of crime. Hanging around the underbelly of society did, however, made me realize we are living in a broken system. But I only had that epiphany afterwards when I stopped doing drugs.
These are different drugs than MDMA and LSD though and I can understand someone gets a lot of loving feelings when doing these drugs. I just hope that in a future society we can stop sedating ourselves this much in our free time, or at least have a different perspective of which drugs we should use from time to time. I’m not against banning drugs but we are forced by our overlords to suffer unnecessarily because of them.
Well looks like drugs is a polemic topic and we have no consensus overall regarding its use
Yeah but note that people from imperialist countries are generally pro drug, and people from imperialized countries are against. Even regardless how even in the imperialist countries drugs are heavily adverse to the working class, this clearly points that in the capitalism we all should be anti drugs, since drugs are the enemy weapons in the class war.
EDIT: i’m incredibly disappointed how prodrugs you guys are here or rather, how loud the prodrugs minority here is. Oh well, nothing new in english-speaking internet communities, much less than on reddit actually. FYI i’m not for prohibition because that rarily work, especially now when western devil is out of the box - before if worked pretty well in socialist countries not being infiltrated by the western druglords, which is yet another proof how much the entire drug issue (or monolith as one nitpicker below tried to say) is an issue of class war and systemic opression. I’m for legalisation of mild substances, but also strict reglamentation and control. Dealers get wall, especially in socialism when they will have no soapy excuses i will undobtedly hear for the scum who “have no other option” than to prey on the working class now in capitalism.
For a scientific approach, you must stop categorizing “drugs” as a monolithic block. Each drug must be analyzed and appropriately regulated to balance the good they do against the harm they cause.
unscientific
edit: in fact, in light of your edit, not only unscientific but totally moralistic and idealistic. Similar to the patsoc bullshit, you can hide behind your Polishness to obfuscate your own western biases but they still shine through. Speaking down to comrades on this topic is quite despicable when it’s blatantly obvious you’ve done no research. Down-voting comrades w/ actual scientific analysis of the drug situation w/o responding is also just petty. Just want to restate that substances like psilocybin and peyote and ayahuasca are incredibly important to many imperialized people, and attempting to draw a “pro-drug” vs “anti-drug” dichotomy between the west and east or the global north and global south is a damned fool’s errand with no merit in historical or material fact. The true dichotomy is “pro-drug when it suppresses our enemies” and “anti-drug when it suppresses our enemies”, both lines held by the intl. bourgeoisie against the working class. If introducing heroin will destabilize and destroy a community, they are pro-drug. If psilocybin is being used for spiritual practices by a native pop., they are anti-drug. This is more complicated than kneejerk reaction and the painting of a dishonest picture.
