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Charm of the known
There are insights that you don't have to hear again and again because they are either banal or obvious or boring, but which some people like to say again and again. It is well known that a particularly large number of such insights are gathered in the speeches of Dr. Steinmeier, the President, who has just told us that the 20-year war of the German people against the Afghan people was an extraordinarily senseless, cruel and harmful demonstration of unreserved obedience. He looked at us with his most pensive face in a particularly good-hearted manner, and the Minister of Defense was also very touched by the memory of all that she has always said and thought good.
Well, that's the way it is with the simple truths, be it about the illegality of wars of aggression, the dangerousness of foreign substances for the production of flight ability or the Wembley goal of 1966: Repetition is an art of immersion that leads to wisdom the other to a caring psychiatric clinic. When entire peoples persistently reassure one another that the end is near, that retirement is certain, or that the lotus is eternal, there is cause for concern. That brings us back to the Federal President, who worries a lot day and night and is really happy to tell us about it.
If you, dear readers, now think that this connection looks a bit constructed again, you are completely right on the one hand.
On the other hand, again not, because the associations are as they want and come when you least expect them, which is their purpose and in art as in statecraft occasionally leads to the core of things.
We have finally landed on the psychotropic substances and consequently on the very important question of who will actually be the next Federal Chancellor and why.
There is no getting around the very latest »legalization discussion«, which is roughly the same as the previous one, except that now MP Karl Lauterbach is somehow in favor of it.
Perhaps the few stoners among the Young Liberals think that is really great.
Charm of the forbidden
If there are still stoned people on the road, said the police chief inspector (PHK), "then we have a problem".
The PHK is chairman of the German Police Union (DPolG), so it has to know, because there is order, abstinence and a strict ban on drugs.
"Already now," said Mr. Wendt, accidents happen again and again because of cannabis use.
Ok, logic may not be the core competency of the DPolG, but we know it is well-intentioned.
World press from Munich, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Berlin: Legalize twitter on page one.
Some say so, others say so.
Cannabis can damage the brain!
Last dreams of the retired generation!
Economy, intoxication, personality, organized crime!
What could be nicer than an identitary schnapps discussion as the climax of coalition considerations?
As we know, poisoning rivers and lakes, killing people, stealing things and defrauding peaceful retirees is forbidden. With all of these and about a thousand other crimes, with a few exceptions, one hears very seldom that it is the attraction of the forbidden that leads people to commit the offense. Even when killing, the legal "lust for murder" (Section 211 (2) StGB) does not refer to the childlike stimulus to do the opposite of what mom and dad want, but to the thing itself. Most people steal chocolate for the sweetness sake, not because they succumb to the sexual stimulus of kleptomania.
Therefore, the kitchen psychological theory that it is above all the attraction of the forbidden that leads young people to the abyss of hashish consumption seems somewhat dubious.
Drunk drinking is usually not undertaken because the teacher has forbidden it, but because the world is cruel, but the vodka in the sangria bucket is tender.
That is to say: The mere abolition of prohibitions is unfortunately rarely the most successful way to prevent bad habits.
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On the other hand, it is gratifying to read that a whole society of adult commentators, experts, experts, police officers and politicians is seriously concerned with the extent to which they themselves could be driven by irresistible urges, longings and obsessions for the forbidden.
If young hashish smokers smoke weed out of lust for the forbidden: why then do his father drink wheat beer and his mother prosecco?
We shrink back with a shudder: It is, as we have been taught, the innocent joy of socializing, the cultural enjoyment of the Purity Law and the musical bond with the Scottish single malt highlands that turn the exhausted moderns into alcoholic sweet tooth.
Charm of intoxication
In short, the banal: There are psychogenic substances. People have been eating, drinking, breathing and sniffing for 200,000 years, they usually think it's great, but they also have their problems with it. Some make you sick, some make you dead, some make you unhappy. But everyone does something special, out of the ordinary, differently. The motives for taking them are about as varied as the motives for singing, dancing, praying, or loving, so quite difficult to control. The number of drugs is in principle unlimited. Their discovery, effect, dissemination and tolerance are very closely related to what sociologists and idolaters who disguise themselves as such call "culture", that is, less with the features section than with the lifeworld.
One can call the "right to intoxication," which is known to be part of the right to freedom. Man has the right to be intoxicated like the right to water and bread or the right to free travel: In principle yes, but only according to the laws of evolution, not those of the respective emperor. They are a matter of negotiation, so they are subject to interests and the respective leading idea of rationality. So a Sioux war chief saw the intoxication business a little differently than a compliance manager at your trusted bank.
However, this also means that rationality should, if possible, be applied according to its own rules: Those who adhere to a world model of divine providence and wondrous parallel worlds must consider something different to be sensible than someone who thinks about the modernization of the world by digitizing patient files raves. In response to our question: What should be considered "intoxication" at all must be defined and is not written on the stone tablets of eternity. The same applies to the concepts of the everyday and the extra-ordinary, the socially acceptable as well as the common and dangerous. Driving does not matter as long as the farmer is on the ox-cart, and for a sacred inspiration, a moderate hallucination may be a desirable state.Conversely, it is irrational and counterproductive to allow the dangerous and forbid the harmless on the grounds that one already has so many problems with the real dangers that one has to fight all the more bitterly against the imagined ones.
Stimulus to get started
Every MP, PHK and Oktoberfest visitor swears, cannabis is a gateway drug. According to this theory, 200 million people around the world are dependent on alcohol, opium, heroin, morphine, cocaine, amphetamines and their derivatives of all kinds, synthetic opioids, solvent vapors, GBL, belladonna, mushrooms, nicotine, benzodiazepines, khat, polamidon or serotonin reuptake - Inhibit because a gateway drug led them down this downhill path. The fact that it was the THC from the cannabis plant or from the laboratory is, however, rather doubtful according to fairly expert scientific findings; but they don't mindwho have one belief and for whom sugar cane is the gateway drug for cola consumption and apple cider the gateway drug for cirrhosis of the liver and are therefore prohibited or at least strictly controlled by the consumer center and the Stiftung Warentest together with their Bavarian and North Rhine-Westphalian state criminal police offices.
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The problem is: what to do about the attraction of entry? And: is there anything you can do about it? At the bottom of everything, the philosophy says, birth is an entry point to exit, i.e. the beginning of a more or less long but generally manageable dependency on substances such as protein, fat, water and oxygen. It is embedded in the dependencies of social contact, love, trust, security, also of all kinds of reflections, derivatives and forms of degeneration of the same. In other words: It depends on what you make of it yourself and what the social environment allows you to make of it. Therefore, as the Schunkler, Gröler, Burp and Morgenquitterer aptly knows, one cannot think of the drug without the people who like and need it.
The experienced red wine sniffers and Prosecco nippers, along with their sad sisters and brothers, the bottle hiding places and dry delirants, of course firmly believe that they are the representatives of a culture of moderate alcoholism that has been tried and tested for thousands of years, a system with a civilization-dependent system, mostly controlled as if by magic A just manageable failure rate between two and ten percent. The potato schnapps wreck was enough for the iron foundry of the 19th century; the amphetamine connoisseur is more useful for CAD milling. There are very similar opinions among cannabis enthusiasts, enriched with the conviction that they are a persecuted minority of harmless children: Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds.
The real truth is a little difficult to find in this case. In any case, it does not simply emerge from the police reports, medical files and laboratory rat protocols. Anyone who floods their brains with vodka becomes, that much is clear, sick and stupid; and whoever blows it with THC will also get sick and stupid. Some are more interested in this, some less, which in turn depends on dispositions that are independent of the drugs, but are ultimately always influenced by them: The problem of the real alcoholic is not the past conflict in the relationship, but the alcohol; and the problem of giggling stoner is not the dummy father that got lost early on, but the hashish. In other words: these things have a dead weight like cement sacks. Who doesn't believejust sit down in an alcohol and drug clinic for an afternoon.
Stimulus to get out
The good, so identitary person of the twentieth legislative period has a dream that also includes the right to be intoxicated, which a criminal chamber chairman from Lübeck once presented to the Federal Constitutional Court, for which he was mocked and bullied there for two decades.
But now Herr Bebel's Workers' Party is going into the battle to reconcile the man's table setting and hash cookies;
a new jolt of modernization is passing through the lean bones.
Unfortunately, at this point we have to come to a few questions that still appear to be unsolved.
It is of course not the apocalyptic dreams of the notorious Mon Cherie snackers and ibuprofen addicts.
A release of cannabis will not suddenly lead to all Tagesschau speakers being completely drunk, entire primary school populations dropping out for the Pisa study or federal ministers no longer knowing what they might want to say.
The number of consumers will increase moderately and then level off roughly where it is now.
Physiologically and biographically, cannabis is not the gateway drug for opiates, but alcohol.
Socio-psychologically it looks a little different;
illegality, market structure and social stratification result in a somewhat more negative picture.
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The real problem is the market.
We hardly have a black market for alcohol in Western Europe because the stuff is so cheap and ubiquitous that it makes little sense to poison yourself or others with home-distilled schnapps.
But you don't have to travel very far to find the opposite.
Drug market-related crime is always the same in structure; this is no different here than in the automobile market or in the stock market. Contrary to the populist police slogans, crime in such markets cannot be "abolished", only regulated. If you make such a market illegal, you do not gain control over crime, but promote it on a phenomenal basis. A market with a profit margin of 2000 percent in two weeks is, firstly, unbeatable, secondly irresistible, thirdly, the natural battlefield of those who are supposedly so different from "us": brave, unscrupulous, intelligent, brutal. In the Wild West as in the Wild East, those who have a lot to gain and little to lose and who dare to do something have always led the way. Whether it's bison skins or LPG plots,Gold nuggets or crystal meth is completely indifferent. So much for the mundane about the market economy.
So much for the “partial legalization” that has now been dreamed of again: As always, “strictly controlled”, job and home office compatible, child-protective. Oh yes! It's a strange mixture of goodwill, modernization, misjudgment and playing with responsibility. Partial legalization is the necessary counterpart to a partial black market. Allowing the manufacture, possession and acquisition of smaller quantities means maintaining the illegal market for everything else. He creates and perpetuates his own problems; whether you accept them, you have to decide in terms of legal policy.
Do you know what the so-called money laundering prosecution has to do with the illegal drug market?
To put it simply, they are one: one heart and one soul.
The pursuit of money laundering was invented to prevent the Al Capones of the world from becoming billionaires through prohibition.
Unfortunately, it has never worked, and also not with El Chapo.
Instead, hard-working chief inspectors pursue hundreds of thousands of petty thugs, search interior ministers in shisha bars, heroin addicts die of abscesses and cirrhosis, and those who like fun smoke poisoned filth.
outlook
All in all, it is difficult to give an answer to the question of legalization with an all-round joyful outlook.
This is less due to the question itself, which is extremely justified, nor to the cannabis, which is a warm breeze compared to the already raging storms.
It is more due to the climatic conditions of the question and the penetrating unwillingness of many questioners to understand these conditions.
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Most of what cannabis use can do negatively has already been done. If the number of regular stoners rises from three to four million, that is about as dangerous as a particularly oxy year in the Rheinpfalz and the Kaiserstuhl. Eliminating cannabis crime from court records, prosecutors and correctional facilities, police notices, and youth arrests would have done a lot of good and saved a ton of money. The DPolG would certainly find other battlefields, and the neurologists could continue to warn of the destructive effects of THC on the immature brain.
On the other hand, you shouldn't expect too much: A little identity policy does not make modernization.
A little legalization doesn't destroy the black market and all of its consequences.
The intoxication, the addiction and the destruction do not come from the outside, but from the inside.
The idea that excessive drug use is a form of release from duties and responsibilities is as common as it is treasonous.
Nevertheless, hardly anyone in their senses would want to swap with a heroin, crack or alcohol addict.
In other words: First of all, you have to find the people who willingly throw themselves at the sword.
The end of Prohibition is more than overdue.
What is currently understood by this is at best a beginning.