Intoxication, freedom, timeless history of civilization

This is not the end. Although the class that has thrust me into this blog is ending, my passion from this has not ended. I realized as soon as I decided to go forward with this topic, this was not something that could be contained in a blog. Intoxication is a subjective topic, one that can get to extreme opposites of how it should be mixed in with society.

I have learned over the past semester:

As of 12/10/2013 0:30 we as a nation have spent $38,476,898,450 on drug prohibition.

"...For the first half of our nation's history there were no prohibitions against any drug.
-The war on drugs is not authorized by the Constitution.
-Tobacco kills more people every year than all of the people killed by all illegal drugs in the twentieth century.
-The war on drugs had done nothing to reduce the demand for illicit drugs.
-Numerous studies have shown that smoking marijuana is less dangerous than drinking alcohol.
-The war on drugs is the cause of our unnecessarily swelled prison populations.
-Alcohol abuse, not drug abuse, is one of the leading causes of premature deaths in the US.
-The war on drugs has ruined more lives than drugs themselves.
-More people in America die every year from drugs prescribed and administered by physicians than from illegal drugs. " (The 40-Year War On Freedom, Laurence M. Vance)

We have given our government far more power than our founding fathers ever envisioned. After looking at restrictions placed on us by the government, I actually realized how citizens are not born free. Citizens are granted freedom by the state and must abide by that, thus not creating a free individual.

Intoxicant policy has been guided for the past 100 years with false rhetoric, moral obligations, religious beliefs, racial prejudice, and as an excuse to continuously overstep the role of the state.

"The war on drugs is a failure. It has failed to prevent drug abuse. It has failed to keep drugs out of the hands of addicts. It has failed to keep drugs away from teenagers. It has failed to reduce the demand for drugs. It has failed to stop the violence associated with drug trafficking. It has failed to help drug addicts get treatment.

But the war on drugs has also succeeded. It has succeeded in clogging the judicial system. It has succeeded in swelling prison populations. It has succeeded in corruption law enforcement. It has succeeded in destroying financial privacy. It has succeeded in militarizing the police. It has succeeded in hindering legitimate pain treatment. It has succeeded in destroying the Fourth Amendment. It has succeeded in eroding cicil liberties. It has succeeded in making criminals out of hundreds of thousands of law-abiding Americans. It has succeeded in wasting hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars. It has succeeded in ruining countless lives.

Clearly, the financial and human costs of the drug war far exceed any of its supposed benefits. Clearly, the drug war violates the Constitution and exceeds the proper role of government. And clearly, the drug was is a war on personal freedom, private property, personal responsibility, individual liberty, personal and financial privacy, and the free market."
(The War on Drugs Is Senseless, L. Vance)

There is nothing in the actual consumption of drugs that should be criminalized. The only victim of drug taking is the user, if you could even call them that. Drug users do not call themselves victims nor do they consider the people they are around when intoxicated as victims.

I still don't know:

Not nearly enough research to make scientifically valid health decisions regarding drugs


Why the government has done very little to change obviously failing policy regarding drugs over the past 40 years

Different traits genetically which alters perception of intoxicants

Why people care that other people do a peaceful act such as drug taking, despite "moral" issues

How to successfully debate by cited specific sources

And the list continues infinitely.. 

I still want to accomplish:

To move "officials" away from moral issues regarding drugs and forward to health issues.

To continue building the website for my continued research but also to share an objective view on drugs.

To effectively communicate my passion to others to hopefully pass it on even further.




This has not been a blog about drugs. This has been a blog about mankind. Intoxication has been twisted over the past century as something immoral, something of the devil and corrupting of society. This blog has not even began to touch why this is societies' view of drugs. This blog has begun to open a well-guarded and well-hidden pandora's box of truth behind intoxication. I will continue my work on Human Intoxication passionately, perhaps seeing a day when drugs are not controlled by harm reduction/prevention but rather benefit maximization. But for now, the constant hypocrisy that spills from policy makers will continue fueling my passion and motivation towards my overall goal for man.