Hello Asgardians!
As you know every country has a list of forbidden drugs and of drugs you can use after a medical prescriction. I was thinking about the discoveries of this century and how this can affect such a list in Asgardia's laws. Here are my opinion:
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Hello Asgardians!
As you know every country has a list of forbidden drugs and of drugs you can use after a medical prescriction. I was thinking about the discoveries of this century and how this can affect such a list in Asgardia's laws. Here are my opinion:
>Cigarettes should be outlawed as cocacine, meth and heavy drugs. (Even if it was possible to smoke on a spacial station)
>Asgardians should encourage the use of electronic pipes (or electronic cigarettes), in order to leave the dependence from nicotine and from gestures caused by normal cigarettes.
>Marijuana should be taken after medical prescription, but only in the form of food or drinking, such as tea or even muffins if you want, to treat minor diseases.
>Morphine should be used only in serious emergency cases in pain treatment.
>Hashish as morphine. Via aerosol is forbidden.
Those were my opinions, what do you think about?
I think a nation that does not force its citizens to conform to what some believe is right or wrong is a good nation. It keeps crime and black market stuff out of the picture. Cigs in space I get that, ecigs would be s good solution. But marijuana ...
I think a nation that does not force its citizens to conform to what some believe is right or wrong is a good nation. It keeps crime and black market stuff out of the picture. Cigs in space I get that, ecigs would be s good solution. But marijuana and marijuana related products should be ok too, without a perception, and again only vape based. I also think hallucinogens should be legal. Things you can grown is the way to go. i.e. mushrooms.
I do think we have some smokers in Asgardia and i think we should ban smoking at space stations and outposts at non-atmosphere bodies in order to keep our artificial enverioment protected, but i do think it would be ok to have controlled smoking areas at planets and moons ...
I do think we have some smokers in Asgardia and i think we should ban smoking at space stations and outposts at non-atmosphere bodies in order to keep our artificial enverioment protected, but i do think it would be ok to have controlled smoking areas at planets and moons with a natural self-regulating atmosphere in order to keep both non-smokers and smokers happy without causing any damage to anyone, this should apply to tobacco and marijuana.
About other drugs i think we should ban really dangerous ones like heroine, cocaine, meth among others and have helping programs for asgardians with adictions to these substances.
About morphine i think it should be used only as a medical resource to control excesive pain and shock.
Agreed. As Asgardia won't be able to produce this things it will hit hard or our economy if people will use money to purchase such things instead of using them on something more productive. I will explain it a bit better:
Let's say we have 10M$ and 100K ...
Agreed. As Asgardia won't be able to produce this things it will hit hard or our economy if people will use money to purchase such things instead of using them on something more productive. I will explain it a bit better:
Let's say we have 10M$ and 100K people. They need food, water, air and other resources to live and of course salary for his work. It takes in total 10K$ to a man to maintain him for the government (It's not precise, I'm just giving an example), so we're left with 9M. Now we need to spend the money on schools, medicine, army and city maintaining which will take all the rest. Where do we get the money from? From people - like taxes, for example. Now lets say you have in these 100K people 30K smokers. Not only that you need to spend your money to but it from other countries or to raise it, but it decreases the total health level of all your citizens, their average amount of money is lowered and their productivity is lowered too. Now lets say tobacco is banned - first of all it means the average health level of all the citizens will raise, the money used by the government to buy tobacco will be put in to something else and Asgardia will still get it's money from other stuff, because instead of smoking people will waste this money on something else, such as snacks. This oher stuff usually cost much less than cigarettes, so the average amount of money a citizen will have will raise.
So I'm all up for the idea. But I'm pretty sure there are a lot of smokers in Asgardia that will disagree with us. I'm sure there is not one smoker in this topic that said yes to this idea.