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The seductive quality of drugs over the years has continued to fool many professionals and laymen. The father of modern psychiatry, Sigmund Freud, initially thought cocaine was non-addictive and relatively harmless—a mistake made in the mid-1880s that was repeated nearly a hundred years later. Leading universities hosted professors infatuated with psychedelics in the 1960s and 70’s—or stimulants and narcotics in the 80’s and 90’s. Many physicians and researchers have grossly underestimated drug dangers.
But you emphasize that drugs are a bad choice. Don’t do drugs. But if you do, we’re not going to throw you in jail for it. New laws and problems If drugs are legalized, there will be a whole new set of laws. Let me mention a few of them. Let’s say you can’t do drugs if you’re under 21. You can’t sell drugs to kids. I say employers should be able to discriminate against drug users. Employers should be able to conduct drug tests, and they should not have to comply with the Americans With Disabilities Act, [which prohibits employers from discrimination against those who have a history of addiction].
The tendency to forget much of America’s experience with addictive substances goes to the very nature of drugs and the culture they spawn. A drugged society suffers from long-term memory loss to the point of amnesia. The lure of illegal drugs involves a desire for intense pleasure and instant reward. Drug users crave out-of-body joy and peace at the drop of a pill, in a few breaths, or within minutes of injection. Lost in the self and the present, the person on drugs is neither preparing for the future nor learning from the past.
