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escape, self destruction, those are valiable answers..but not weak minded or weak willed. lets just name a few people who wereon drugs whos legacies we still listen and study today: albert hoffman, with LSD, Freud on Cocaine, Edgar Allan Poe; Samuel Taylor Coleridge, who miserably battled his addiction to Laudanum (Opiate) for much of his adult life; Thomas de Quincey; Lord Byron; Percy Bysshe Shelley, who suffered raging laudanum-induced hallucinations; Charles Dickens; Lewis Carroll; and Charles Baudelaire. There were also political figures, such as William Wilberforce and Meriwether Lewis, who used Laudanum, not to mention a wide array of music composers and speaking of that you have poets and musicians such as jim morrison, jimi hendrix, dave gahan from Depeche Mode who relapsed 3 times on heroin and tried to kill himself, Martin gore from Depeche mode who was a huge alcoholic and the list goes on and on...Alex Grey, Salvador Dali, Andy Warhol..etc etc etc
would human evolve creatively without the experimentation of drugs? probably not since every work of art thats truly appreciable was probably done under the use of some drug including about 90% if the music you listen to.
then you have the irony of alcohol being legal, one of the substances who makes you lose control of your mind and you end up either becoming addicted, making huge scenes of violence, beating your wife and kids and it is legal. Then you have those medical drugs sold by the government who can be just as addictive as shit you get on the streets and all you need is a prescription.
Last edited by Danny Ocean on May-01-2010 at 08:48
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