Thursday, May 9, 2013

Drugs

"I feel strongly that there is nothing inherently wrong with using drugs, and that's a matter of bodily autonomy and self-determination. I only have a problem with it if you're also hurting other people in the process (such as with driving while drunk or hitting people while drunk, but being drunk in and of itself isn't a bad thing and shouldn't be shamed). Particularly when juxtaposed to the incredibly poor treatment marginalized victims of crime receive by law enforcement, it's incredulous that we continue to prosecute drug users for exercising control over their own bodies instead of, oh, I don't know, taking as a serious threat to any supposedly "free" and "equal" society the rampant institutionalized violence against children, undocumented immigrants, the disabled, people of color, indigenous people, religious minorities, queer folks, women and female-presenting folks, and other multiply-marginalized people."-Lydia Brown

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