Legalized Recreational Narcotics: A Conservative Statits Wet Dream

in #weed7 years ago

Disclaimer: I truly hate the state in all of it’s forms. It has been, and forever will be a way for the few to control the many. The greatest horror of the “American Experiment” is that the oligarchy, which has been in control since the beginning, has fooled the many that they actually need the few in order to live in peace with their immediate neighbors, and their world neighbors. None of that is true. The many never need the few.
One of the many that thinks he’s needs the few is my father. He’s a pastor in a really small town in Alaska. He claims he’s not a moralist, but he always votes in ways that will control behavior he disagrees with. One of those records of voting is a staunch record of not allowing people the freedom to put in their bodies whatever they want to. He, in the name of Jesus, feels that it is his responsibility to make sure the people in his town live a moral life. If he can’t convince them of the joys of Holy living, he will make sure they at lest live like it. On a side note, no one wants to serve a god who uses coercion to get its way. I do not believe the God of the Bible does use coercion. I think it’s actually an anarchist text at the meta-physical level.
But, this isn’t about me or my thoughts of the unGod. It’s about people like my pops. For the record, I love my dad. He worked really hard to take care of his family. I never missed a meal. He randomly gave gifts to his children for no other reason than to show love. When I was dealing with being horrifcally bullied, leading to thoughts of self harm in high school we’d go to get soft-served ice cream once a week (Carvel, Seaford, Long Island) and we would just talk and make jokes. That sounds so childish when I read it, and when I read it out loud. Maybe it was, but it helped keep me, literally, alive for a few years. He is a great dude! I just happen to disagree with a lot of his worldview.
The songs Sweet Home Alabama, and Okie From Muskogee were written and sang by people who disagreed with the politics they were singing about. But those artists loved the people in their lives that did think like that so much that they wanted to give us the point of view in it's purest, non-straw-manned form . This following treatise is my attempt to give a cogent argument in favor of the anarchist view of legalized narcotics using the conservative Republican definitions of the states reach and purpose. I hope to do this without straw-manning their point of view. I think I'll be succesful as I'm a recovering Republican Statist. Just like alcoholism, statism is a one drink and drunk to of mindset. It's insidious. I'm sure my anarchist views will spring up throughout this.I will let you know what are actual beliefs of mine at the current moment.

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