Brenton
Dead People Read Your Script 3: Raver
January 15th 2007 01:03
A Pill
I have a couple of friends involved in the rave scene. They love life, they LOVE doof (techno music) and they love drugs.
Now there’s one unfortunate thing most people are accustomed to hearing about drug users. They kind of die. They’re good at it. Heroin users OD. Pot heads fall off balconies. And Ecstasy Users are prone to drink too much water (or, not enough) and die.
There’s one girl, who I won’t name (having her memory publicly flogged for political reasons far too much for m to engage in the same) who did, as I suggested above, take ecstasy and die of drinking too much water. Now, it’s entirely possible, were you to ask her now, presuming she, or her spirit or whichever can see what’s going down on Earth, be overjoyed with what her death has inspired. However, it’s also possible that she’d be entirely displeased.
My friends who are into drugs, tend to passionately oppose mainstream views of drugs, and tend to focus their explanations of the dangers of drugs around social problems and the way in which Governments legislate psychoactive substances. If they’d died from taking drugs on their first experience, would they have opposed the use of their memory to push against their use? No idea; maybe, maybe not. But, considering themselves to experiment safely and responsibly over a number of years, would they oppose their memory to be used in this way if they died of drug related causes today? Especially considering the laws preventing the sales of drugs like ecstasy prevent the regulation of such drugs, hence making it easier for dangerous impurities to find their way in? Almost definitely.
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Comment by Cibbuano
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I think governments have to realize that people want to get fucked up.
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Legalizing things won`t make the social problems go away - perhaps we all just need to listen a bit more instead of being so wrapped up in ourselves.
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However, I do think that it's possible to use drugs without being full of issues.
People do it every day - caffine, alchohol, niccotine. The only difference is these are legal - not nescercerally different.
Does beliving though drugs are bad, and ought not be legal, Ash, justify using a drug death to promote anti-drug messages, even if the individual who died would not approve?
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Imagine How Steve Irwin would feel if his death was used in a campagn to stop people spending time with dangerous animals, or how marie Curie would feel if her death was used to discourage experementing to find more about the properties of radium?
Comment by Ash
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It is easy for someone who has used drugs many times to tell a first time user that it is ok to use themselves. You could say the same about cars - car accidents are huge killers, however everyone is warned of what happens with speeding and negligence.
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Comment by Damo
Years later I wonder why people do this to them selves and why others don't. Is it just social conditioning that stops people from taking drugs or are their people who are prone to experiment with drugs. Perhaps some people don't use drugs out of fear and others because the don't want spend money. What ever the reason I believe that there will always be those who take drugs and those who refuse. I'm not really conviced that legalizing it will do from a social perspective. Everyone of te regular users I knew had read several books on the subject to reafirm their beliefs that it was okay.
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Is it just social conditioning that stops people from taking drugs or are their people who are prone to experiment with drugs.
I think both. I think that yeah, there's a million things that make or stop drug use, and there's times when it's good, and times when it's bad.
What ever the reason I believe that there will always be those who take drugs and those who refuse.
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Personally I'm a supporter of legalising anything that's not physically addictive. I think this would stop alot of current problems. This can be seen in an earlier article called "Ecstacy Kills (So Leagalize it)"
I genuinely think this discussion has changed my views. Facts are facts, and even with an adgenda attached, it's important to be honest - if you want to say drugs kill, and say so and so dies of drugs. There is no limit on what people express, or how. However, there is a point where the use of sombodies death to prove a point is grossly overdone, and I'd have to say, so indulgent that I can't help but loose alot of respect for those responsible.
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Of the drug & alcohol related deaths each year, about 90% of them are due to alcohol and tobacco. But I dont see them being made illegal any time soon.
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