I'm down with the dictatorship of the proletariat, but fuck off if you're coming for my ketamine, 2CB, DMT, salvia, cannabis, etc. Everything I've read into and history's precedent tells me it's a pretty clear ban on everything.

And no lazy, bullshit responses like, "Well if we're in a communist utopia, I think you'll find there will be no need to take mind-altering substances, which clearly only exclusively exist as a response to captitalism."

Curiosity, spirituality, and exploring the unknown will exist in perpetuity. I just wonder what limitations will be impressed upon society.

  • volkvulture [none/use name]
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    4 years ago

    cannabis use is not intensely criminalized in DPRK and a large portion of workers in North Korea choom tf up

    https://www.huffpost.com/entry/marijuana-in-north-korea_n_4067341

    • TheDeed [he/him, comrade/them]
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      4 years ago

      Yeah that's pretty nice, I like that policy imo it shouldn't be criminalized at all but that's a start

      This is less about AES but more about people who talk about what communism should look like and say drugs are threat to the workers and the state or w/e

      • volkvulture [none/use name]
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        4 years ago

        there should be massive cultural education around these things, the scare tactics center mostly around America's janus-faced influence in global policing & propping up certain right-wing narcostate regimes over others. Opium trade for instance was always something our Taiwanese warlord & Turkish friends helped us out with.

        but I am more apt to look at real effects of drug policy of former & present ML states. Georgia's anti-drug crusade of today is insane. USSR also never really enforced its anti-"narcomania" policy before the US' global anti-communist& anti-worker drug war. For instance, "drug regulation remained largely untouched in the Soviet Union until 1974"

        I don't think people should be nodding off everyday on Fent, but we know from "Rat Park" experiment that individuals are less likely to fall into this pit of despair & dependence if there are real world alternatives to get those "feel-good" chemicals going.

        • TheDeed [he/him, comrade/them]
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          4 years ago

          This is what I don’t like, I value personal freedom. I would say good education and support could deter addiction but I also don’t want it illegal to decide what to do with my own body.