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with a precise description of what effect - good and
bad - the drug will have on the taker. This will
require heroic honesty.
For the record, I have tried - once -almost every
drug and like none, disproving the popular theory that
taking a single smoke of opium will enslave the mind.
Nevertheless many drugs are bad for certain people to
take and they should be told why in a sensible way.
Along with advice and warning, it might be good for
our citizens to recall that the United States was a
nation in which people believed that each man has the
right to do what he wants with his own life as long as
he does not interfere with his neighbors pursuit of
happiness.
Now one can hear the warning: If everyone is
allowed to take drugs, everyone will, and the gross
national product will decrease and we shall end up a
race of fools. Alarming thought. Yet it seems most
unlikely that any reasonably healthy-minded person will
become a drug addict if he knows in advance what
addiction is going to be like.
Is everyone reasonably sensible? No. Some people
will always become drug addicts just as some people
will always become drunken, and it is just too bad.
Every man, however, has the power to kill himself if he
chooses. But since most men dont, they wont be the
majority, either. Nevertheless, forbidding people
things they like or think they might enjoy only makes
them want those things all the more. This psychological
insight is, for some mysterious reason, denied our
governors.
51. The authors solution to the drug problem
is____________.
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