Yep, too much dope is a problem, especially if your paving your lungs with unnecessary tar byproducts. There are many ways to get active dope chemicals into the body for medical or recreational uses. I mean whats worse, waiting for an alcoholic to totally f’ up the workplace (I mean you can smell them before you can see them) or work alongside an effectively over doped zombie? (Duuoooooooode, Is it break time yet?)
Part of the over arching problem is the governments archaic substance laws that give certain federal government agencies and departments a reason not to change the drug enforcement status quo. Come on, cluttering up the costly penal system with dopers? What a waste of tax money, I mean the feds eventually helped to stigmatize tobacco and are still working on chew tobacco. Social crime partners are big pharma and the DEA, where many drugs in USA NOT produced by big pharma somehow end up on the DEA naughty list of substances. So while it’s too costly to jump through hoops to test psycho active drugs or try and do sensible research, no no no, all these psychoactive drugs should remain on the schedule 1 list along with depressants e.g. Heroin and the like. This is our Drug Industrial Complex aka DIC (sounds like ‘DICK’) and consisting of enforcement agencies, Pharmaceutical Industry and apparently a congress to smart to fix anything that affects various tax revenues.
With some proper research on any psychoactive drugs national health groups could recommend safe usage guidelines from abstinence to a toot a week. It took years but I think we have figured out how cigarettes and associated nicotine addiction might be good for profiters but not so much for human health. Until more research is done for psychoactive drugs, dosages can and will be a crap shoot, figure it out congress, duhhh. If nothing else sanctioning research will give you some cover time if you are running from constituents or very big Pharma.
BTW: Here’s a little thought food. If your job is security at a huge sporting event with the usual after game FUBAR, who would you rather herd into a paddy wagon, boozed up testosterone crowds or by in large, pussy cats?
(hint: whisk brooms can trump tasers when proper training and techniques are mastered)
