Roar Mikalsen - HUMAN RISING - radiofri..

Jeg vil også gjøre oppmerksom på at selv om jeg her gjør hva jeg kan for å
avdramatisere problembildet forbundet med de illegale stoffene, så betyr ikke
det at jeg oppfordrer til all mulig bruk og eksperimentering her. Verken av de
legale eller illegale stoffene. Jeg påpeker bare et faktum. Og det er at det er
ingenting ved de illegale stoffene, verken i farlighetsgrad eller
avhengighetsgrad, som gjør dem verre for samfunnet enn stoffer vi allerede har
legalisert, — og følgelig har et noe mer avslappet forhold til. Weil forteller
videre om dette:
“Whether a drug is legal or illegal, approved or disapproved, obtained from a
physician or bought on the black market, if the user is aware of its nature, can maintain
a useful effect from it over time, can easily separate from it, and can remain free from
adverse effects, that is a good relationship with the drug. Bad relationships with drugs
begin with ignorance of the nature of the substance and loss of the desired effect with
increasing frequency of use, and progress to difficulty in leaving the drug alone, with
eventual impairment of health or social functioning. Any drug can be used successfully,
no matter how bad its reputation, and any drug can be abused, no matter how
accepted it is. There are no good and bad drugs; there are only good and bad
relationships with drugs.” 172
Andrew Weil har som lege spesielt god kompetanse på det ruspolitiske
feltet, og var rådgiver på området for Carter-administrasjonen. Han har med
andre ord god greie på hva han snakker om, og selv om det han sier vil
benektes på det sterkeste av statsmaktens lakeier, blir det ikke mindre sant av
den grunn. Benson Roe, professor i medisin, bekrefter her et av denne bokens
sentrale poenger:
“The widespread propaganda that illegal drugs are ‘deadly poisons’ is a hoax. There is
little or no medical evidence of long term ill effects from sustained, moderate
consumption of uncontaminated marijuana, cocaine or heroin. If these substances —
most of them have been consumed in large quantities for centuries — were
responsible for any chronic, progressive or disabling diseases, they certainly would
have shown up in clinical practice and/or on the autopsy table. But they simply have
not! (…)
It is frequently stated that illicit drugs are ‘bad, dangerous, destructive’ or
‘addictive,’ and that society has an obligation to keep them from the public. But
nowhere can be found reliable, objective scientific evidence that they are any more
harmful than other substances and activities that are legal.” 173
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