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I am not talking about matters of law here, though that could play a part. Why, even when it is proven scientifically harmless to you, do people see a person altering their own consciousness to be wrong? The WHO has just produced a report that shows moderate cocaine use to not be a detriment to the health of the user. Marijuana is so non-toxic it's LD 5.0 is more thc than you could ever get into your body at once. Hallucinogens have shown to produce very positive mental effects on people including a study that showed how they unwire addiction in the brain. Most of the answers I get are overprotective and don't take into account the fact that the percentage of the population that becomes addicted to something is usually around a constant percentage and is completely outweighed by those who use responsibly. So tell me, why is it wrong for a person to alter their mind or body with an outside substance?
Seriously, what do you guys think is the primary reason? We haven't been seeing crazy evirnmental/anit-corporation left-wing terrorism. What's the trigger for all of this nonsense?
Are they just freaked because they can't handle "dem libruls" in power? Or is it specifically Obama and they think the black man's going to turn their country into Little China?
Scientists recently have, for the first time, created life in a lab. Scientists in the UK have made Ribonucleitides, the building block for Rna, in a lab starting with nothing but base chemicals. This is the first step to showing how life could have started on our planet by becoming a self replicating molecule from the primordial soup. Here's an article from Nature.
http://www.nature.com/news/2009/090513/full/news.2009.471.html
Scientists in Japan have also recently discovered that impacts of great force, like that of an asteroid into the ocean, can fuse elements to create organic molecules in the impact. The study goes on to describe how these organic molecules would survive the blast zone by being quickly dissolved in the primordial oceans seeding life. Here's an article from USAToday.
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/columnist/vergano/2008-12-08-asteroid-collisions_N.htm