Drugs And The Internet
Since the beginning of the twentieth century, ever generation has had its own personality; its own new fad to inspire a whole new group of children and young adults, and to drive the elders crazy. The twenties had the Charleston, the fifties sported huge neon blue and pink finned automobiles. The sixties invented the hippie craze, and the seventies inspired the world with the magically funkadelic sounds of disco. The eighties were unfortunate enough to grace us with glam rock, big hair, and pastels. Nearly any member of the youth of the nineties surely would say that one of the most influential developments this decade is the Internet. The Internet has given everyone, regardless of ...
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through websites, Usenet, email, and countless other media plagues our society, especially the impressionable youth. The encouragement of drug use, and avocation of different methods of drug use enhancement is certainly harmful to society; the real question at hand is whether the U.S. government, or any institution for that matter, has an ethical authority to censor, regulate, maintain, or altogether ban sites that advocate illegal drug use.
With a simple search on the Netscape version of the Excite search engine, one can find a veritable gold mine of information on illegal drug use. Illegal drug use, in fact, seems to be the only major topic of interest in these searches. Take for example a search on “Marijuana”: 32700 links were returned on that search string alone, the top three all links to pro-marijuana use sites. One such site, High Times, has a magazine in publication as well. The content of these top three sites all tend to discuss the same issues: why drugs ...
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come straight out of the “hippie” generation of the sixties and seventies. Some sites are decorated with psychedelic images of love, peace and harmony, while others broadcast to the Internet community their love and joy of their personal drug use. One such site quotes:
“Respecting yourself between trips - learn to meditate and then practice
it regularly. Take care of yourself, get some exercise, get some sunshine,
get out in nature. Don't have your whole life revolve around just tripping
and raving. Pay close attention to yourself and the world around you.
Realize that what you see in life really depends on what you are looking
for. Without any reason, do something ...
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