I wrote this in response to some points raised by one of my Facebook friends Toby Philpott about drugs.

"Eventually no one will want to get high on drugs because all highs are not good for  the health. It is interesting that alcohol consumption is being scientifically probed like smoking tobacco was and in around 20 years most people won't touch the stuff. Drugs will die a death soon after that.

Alcohol consumption is the number one problem around the highs issue on the planet today. I have had interesting discussions with all sorts of people over the years about this . The main beef seems to be, from a particular guy I used to know was, he  could manage drinking so why shouldn't he do it? Good point . Well , there are a very large minority of drinkers who can't and they cause mayhem to themselves and others. Of course now more is known about the deletrious effects of alcohol on health he may not feel the same way now !

Interesting feminist point here : the rise of female emancipation and the temperance movement in 19th century America go together . Even today some of the worst  effects of alcohol are felt by women. All this is quite important because eventually people will give up any sort of high not  just because it may not be good for them but they know for a certainty  that what they are doing as an individual done by others can go on to destroy other peoples lives who do not drink at all!

A world civilization with that level of social consciousness is the one I want to live in. We in the West are going to have to lower our consumption levels eventually because it will be unfair to the rest of the planets peoples if we don't . Same principle and practice as the alcohol and drugs issue."