[ExI] state of conflict technology

[Dan TheBookMan]

To me, the main dangers are dealing with law enforcement and the lesser level of quality control because such substances are illegal. In other words, dangers arising from drug prohibition and not from the substances themselves.

Imagine history were a little different and the Puritanical anti-recreational drug culture never arose or lacked legal enforcement of its whims. Then by now, there'd probably be much more progress in developing better recreational and psychoactive drugs. We might be talking about advances that happened before some of us (me, for instance) were born instead of losing decades of research because of prohibition. 

I’m not disagreeing with you here — just trying to emphasize wherein the big dangers are.

Regards,

Dan
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> On Jan 8, 2020, at 6:13 PM, Will Steinberg via extropy-chat <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
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>>> On Wed, Jan 8, 2020, 20:26 spike jones via extropy-chat <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
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>>> Sounds like a dangerous way to have fun to me.
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> Dangerous how?  Cannabis and LSD have extremely low toxicity, several levels of magnitude below e.g. alcohol.  MDMA can definitely be dangerous especially because of cuts and uninformed use, but it tends to be fairly safe as well if pure and used in low doses. 
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