Civil rights arguments for drug law reform Arguments for and against drug prohibition

1 civil rights arguments drug law reform

1.1 cognitive liberty
1.2 spiritual , religious
1.3 personal development , exploration

civil rights arguments drug law reform
cognitive liberty

authors such aldous huxley , terence mckenna believed persons in private should not regulated government. argued persons should able whatever want bodies, including recreational use of drugs, long not harm others. such arguments cite harm principle of philosopher john stuart mill urged state had no right intervene prevent individuals doing harmed them, if no harm thereby done rest of society: on himself, on own body , mind, individual sovereign , purpose power can rightfully exercised on member of civilized community, against will, prevent harm others. own good, either physical or moral, not sufficient warrant. argument drug use victimless crime , such government has no right prohibit or punish drug consumers, government not forbid overeating, causes more deaths per year. can equated quest freedom of thought.

spiritual , religious

we re playing half deck long tolerate cardinals of government , science should dictate human curiosity can legitimately send attention , can not. s preposterous situation. civil rights issue, because re talking here repression of religious sensibility. in fact, not religious sensibility, religious sensibility.

some religious groups including união vegetal, native american church, bwiti religion , rastafari movement (see religious , spiritual use of cannabis) use psychoactive substances sacrament in religious rituals. in religious practice, drugs used conduit oceanic feeling or divine union, equated mysticism or entheogenic ( causes god within individual ) experiences. in others, entactogenic qualities of drugs used enhance feelings of empathy among congregations.

personal development , exploration

some people believe altered states of consciousness enable many people push boundaries of human experience, knowledge, , creativity. there moral imperative experiment drugs in terms of human progress, teleological development, or increased artistic creativity; such ideas central cognitive liberty, stoned ape hypothesis , aldous huxley s doors of perception.

in pihkal, alexander shulgin, argues psychedelics learn ourselves; indeed name psychedelic (mind expanding) comes from.

i convinced there wealth of information built us, miles of intuitive knowledge tucked away in genetic material of every 1 of our cells. akin library containing uncountable reference volumes, without obvious route of entry. and, without means of access, there no way begin guess extent , quality of there. psychedelic drugs allow exploration of interior world, , insights nature.