These people clearly are trying to adjust their state of mind.
Depending on the drug of course, but some users, esp. of psychedelic drugs, are trying to
experience a different state of mind. They're not trying to adjust their mood, they're trying to experience a different reality.
Maybe this is the same thing as you were saying but it didn't seem right to me the way you wrote it.
"Soft" drugs likewise point to some sort of dissatisfaction with the user's current state.
Not at all. There is no dissatisfaction involved when you're at a Pink Floyd concert and having a great time. If you happen to smoke some pot while you're there it wasn't because you were dissatisfied; you just wanted to experience the concert in a different state of mind, but both equally satisfying.
Coffee, tobacco, alcohol, etc. The people who use and abuse these drug delivery systems are not partaking in their use for their taste, they are seeking a chemical change in their bodies and brains.
Enjoying a glass of wine and a cigar is partaking in their use for the taste, so not all people who
use these products are in it for the chemical change.
The question is as follows: Why do we chase drugs?
Personally I like to experience different states of reality, some I like, some I don't care for. Its never had to do with being dissatisfied with a current state of mind, it's more of a curiousity as to what
other state of mind are there.
does it stand to reason that as we evolve technologically and biologically, we will slowly lose the need to press buttons in our brains with chemicals?
I sure hope not, sounds rather boring to me.
But really, you should be asking if there will ever come a time when humanity isn't going to have to work ridiculous amounts of hours just to get by, which forces them to form a dependency on coffee and cigs. Coffee to stay awake because their job is boring and would make anyone fall asleep, and cigs so they don't kill their co-workers.
End that insanity and you'll see a huge reduction in dependency.
- Oni
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