[ExI] drugs again

[Gina Miller]

It's just a term really but most likely differentiated by people who were prescribed medicine by their doctor and people who used them for non medical effect. I think it is meant to infer abuse of use. From Wiki: 
.'use' refers to the proper place of stimulants in medical practice; 'misuse' applies to the physician's role in initiating a potentially dangerous course of therapy; and 'abuse' refers to self-administration of these drugs without medical supervision and particularly in large doses that may lead to psychological dependency, tolerance and abnormal behavior." The truth is, there is a wide scale on the bar here, drugs can save lives but can also end them and everything in between. If you want to be technical, yes it is people who control the usage, but it does not alleviate the power of the results. 


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  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: ben 
  To: extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org 
  Sent: Monday, January 19, 2009 10:41 AM
  Subject: [ExI] drugs again


  "spike" <spike66 at att.net> mentioned:

   >the topic of drug abuse

  Drug abuse?  There's no such thing.  It's a blatant and obnoxious 
  'social engineering' term.

  People don't abuse drugs.
  You /can't/ abuse drugs. It's impossible. They don't have feelings. Can 
  you abuse air? Do people talk about 'abusing concrete' Why don't we talk 
  about calorie abuse?
  Chinese internet users don't abuse political commentary blogs.

  OK, I suppose you could abuse drugs in the sense of 'using improperly', 
  which would involve, for example, putting LSD in a cigarette, or rubbing 
  an e on your arm.  People don't tend to do that.  They usually use the 
  drugs properly, as they are meant to be used.  Maybe that will harm them 
  (the people), but the abuse is not of the drug.

  People use drugs.  In the process, they may well be abusing themselves, 
  and they may be doing something that their government or other authority 
  doesn't want them to do.  But if you accede to the use of the term 'drug 
  abuse' for this, you are letting yourself be brainwashed by people who 
  thought it was a good idea to take the term 'user' and make it more 
  negative.  It's the NWO again, isn't it.

  Ben Zaiboc
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