I am Bruce Lee's Original Teacher

[Garland]

This thread is kind of interesting to me. The Martial Artists I know are all paranoid about staying aware of their surroundings and in control of themselves. That or they are health freeks. I'm pretty sure none of the regulars do drugs, in fact I know that a few don't. I guess I just think of MA and drugs as not mixing, of course, this crowd barely drinks either.

On this board alone, you have me, Boar and fam, and Lu who openly talk about drugs. Everyone else seems to have a firm abstinence only stance on the topic.

[Piston]

Not so, my philosiphy is, is if you're not hurting anyone else do what you like, I hvae no right to command you on how you conduct yourself.

I think a lot of the stigma around drugs comes from the fact that the non-government controlled ones come under the banner of "illegal". Now other things like rape and murder are illegal and thus subconciously they are heaped under a "bad" categry in many people's minds. I personally don't think from a martial artist's standpoint that drugs are a GOOD idea, but if you want to, that's your call to make, not mine.

[Garland]

I'm not saying drugs are a good thing...I'm saying that they (some of them at least) are a misunderstood thing, and that many of them have useful and practical applications that aren't being considered due to the negative stigma that surrounds them in our culture.