Reply #46: "What an embarrassment."

[OnyxCollie]

If you're going to babble on without a clue as to what you're talking about, perhaps the libertarians should have YOU.

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,46152-2,00.html

Moby says he tried smoking pot when he was 11 or 12 so he could hang out with the "cool kids," but that was pretty much the end of his experimentation. Says Moby: "I've never tried ecstasy, I've never tried cocaine, I've never tried heroin. I don't think there's anything ethically wrong with drug use, but the reason I stay away from it is that I value my brain too much. I don't want to trust my synapses to some stranger that I met in a nightclub. I hope to use my brain for the rest of my life."

http://www.chaoscontrol.com/content_article.php?article=moby

Originally published in 1993.

One of the things that the media focused on was the drug aspect, as rave culture emerged with its own drug - Ecstasy. Moby has always been very outspoken about this side of the scene.

"If you look at drugs in a very general, broad term, to include cigarettes and alcohol, then I don't think there's any more drug use in the rave scene than any other. There's probably a lot more drug use in rock and roll because everybody's getting drunk all the time. But it's because alcohol is a more socially acceptable drug. It doesn't stand out. But I do think that drug use in the rave scene is a problem. Personally, I haven't done any drugs probably in about 8 or 9 years, but a lot of these kids do it recreationally, and they're doing really serious drugs.

"I know a lot of people who have had very positive experiences on Ecstasy and have really found it to be a therapeutic thing, which is keeping to the fact that before MDMA was illegal, it was used in therapy and psychological and psychiatric applications. But now the drugs people are doing are like Acid and Speed and all sorts of weird pills and synthetic stuff. And they're doing it so regularly that I think there's going to be some long lasting problems. I think it's also hurt the scene because now a lot of kids go out and their idea of a good time is just sitting on the floor, staring at their hands, as opposed to dancing or what ever."

Maybe you wouldn't need to "struggle on" if you tried THINKING. Enjoy your stay.