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I recently got into an argument with my girlfriend over her revulsion to my weed/marijuana/ganja smoking. I told her it helps me sleep, she didn't want to hear it. I told her she's an immature, misinformed little bitch who believes everything TV tells her. She called me a pothead, which I am not. I began to hit her over and over again. Afterwards she called the police and I spent a week in a very cozy jail cell.

My question to you is: Who do you think drugs have helped?

1. Hunter S. Thompson - The father of Gonzo journalism and a fantastic writer, he is one of my favorites. He basically warped his brain from all the drugs he did, yet this actually helped in his writing while making him much more interesting than his sober peers.
   
2. Robert Downey Jr. - He is just awesome, he's definitely one of my favorite actors. Some say he plays the same role in every movie, but you know what, go fuck yourselves, he's awesome (way too many commas). Sure drug use did land him in prison once or twice, but he's at the high point of his career after the fact, so the drugs must have helped somehow.
   
3. Led Zeppelin - haha, I could have just as easily put any fuckin rock band here, they're all druggies. Zeppelin, one of the best bands in rock history, if not the best. Lets put some more: Tool (awesome), The Doors (fuckin crazed out), Jimmy Hendrix (haha), The Grateful Dead (hahaha), Jefferson Airplane (White Rabbit, hahahahaha), Rush (oh come on!), and every other awesome mutha fudgin band in history.
   
4. Johnny Depp - He lived with the aforementioned Hunter S. Thompson for 3 months to prepare for the role of Hunter S. Thompson in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. In all that time, he must have gone fuckin crazy with the weed and the coke and the acid, so much acid, hallucinagenics galore. Awesome actor (now), hasn't made a movie I haven't liked in years (except The Libertine, what the fuck Johnny?), he has benefited so much from drugs. All you Pirates fanatics have drugs to thank for Captain Jack.

Well, thats it for now. Think of some more, they don't have to be famous, think of people you know.

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I recently got into an argument with my girlfriend over her revulsion to my weed/marijuana/ganja smoking.

Tell your girlfriend that she is a brainwashed moron.

If you haven't read Aldous Huxley's essays "The Doors of Perception," and "Heaven and Hell," than I highly suggest it. They explore Huxley's autobiographical experimentation with Mescaline and his philosophies on "mind-expanding drugs." These works were integral aspects of the counter-culture movements of the 1960's and completely changed a generation's idea of drug use. The essays are surprisingly scientific, and, in the very least, immensely challenging. I highly suggest them to both parties.

And, just to shortly express a few points:

1. Without the use of psychoactive substances the beat generation would have never occurred (as well as a myriad of other important social, philosophical, and artistic movements) and some of the most liberating, insightful, and amazing art that we have today would never have existed. People like Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, William S. Burroughs, and Charles Bukowski are probably some of the greatest poets and writers to have ever lived within this last century.

2. The stigmatization and prohibition of drugs has its roots in intense racism, corporate control, and an institution of freedom-hating-moral-crusaders that only propagate misinformation and deceit.

3. Due to the aforementioned stigmatization of drugs, we are only just recently discovering the immense medicinal qualities of an entire array of non-psychoactive and psychoactive drugs. These drugs have promise in the treatment of pain, psychosis, depression, anxiety, and a whole slew of malices of both body and mind.

4. The Drug War perpetuates crime, creates a black market, hurts our society in innumerable ways, and is, worst of all, wholly unsuccessful. Today, heroin is purer, cheaper, and more readily available than it ever was - and, drug dealers don't exactly check for I.D.

5. If we ever hope to call ourselves free, we have to recognize that the ability to consume mind altering substances is an inherent freedom - to control the contents of our mind is one of the most valued virtues of society, so why is it under attack?

Just to close this out: I've never taken a single illegal drug in my life. Secondly, I've never had a single drag on a cigarette or a single sip of alcohol. So, if you hope to oppose the stance, you're going to have to get a bit more creative.

Sherlock Holmes was a habitual user of Cocaine and Morphine.

Dude, Sherlock Holmes is a fictional character.