Drug Policy

Their values and attitudes have little or nothing to do with the large majority of drug users I've encountered in my life - legal or illegal - except in the eighties, when the hipster/fratboy/cocaine thing was at its peak.

I read about these folks - fourteen-year-old multiple drug abusers, seekers after the "high" - but I haven't, at any point in my life, spent much time with them. Shulgin's friends make sense to me as drug users. These folks don't - I just don't get it - and it's hard to see much commonality in their interests in making drugs more available.

Much as I support everything they're trying to do, I'm half tempted to oppose them just because the concatenation of "drug users" and this particular subculture would be so damaging to the long-term goal of making more helpful drugs available to people who don't have issues managing their drug use.

No concept of "drug user" that does NOT include users of Adderall and caffeine is going to be of much intellectual use to America.

What was originally meant by "turning on, tuning in and dropping out" is what most DUers have already done. "Turn on": become aware of the fact that our society is built on lies (one good trip will show you this intimately, but it's not the only way) "Tune in": start getting your information from the real world as you abandon the social illusion (this was originally referring to the fantastical delusions of fifties consumerism) and "drop out": stop supporting that world and start directing your energies to supporting a functioning community around yourself.

So not only does this group not speak for me or mine, their very structure is a validation of right-wing myths about drug use.