Why illegal drugs are bad.

     I feel like my posts have not been simple enough.  Long speeches are not popular today compared to the past.  So I'm going to briefly explain why I believe that drugs are bad for us.  By drugs I mean illegal drugs, and the misuse of legal drugs.  We are living beings, but more then that we are living beings with a brain.  Which means, our brain has to follow a algorithm in order to make decisions.  Now what that algorithm is like is a big mystery, however it's possible to get close to describing what it's doing.  To put it in my own words according to my own believe, that algorithm is using pleasure and pain to control behavior.  

    Yes, our mind is smart and can do things that can surprise us, but it's also very predictable.  Our mind wants pleasure, and it doesn't want pain, but the problem is that all pleasure requires pain first before pleasure can be obtained.  Now here is the complicated part, because some choices with pain in them will lead to pleasure, and other choices that also have pain will not lead to pleasure.  

    I can't seem to explain it with less words.  Our mind is trying to figure out which pain is profitable, and which is not.  For a farmer two-hundred years ago, this process works well, if the farmer plants their crops on time, the harvest is better, and eating creates pleasure.  The subconscious mind understands that planting at the right time is important to get pleasure again.  A rat will push a lever to get food in an experiment, so to do we push metaphorical levers all the time, in order to get a treat.  

    So why are drugs bad, because inside our brain is a list of all the pain that brings pleasure.  When we take a drug that gives us pleasure, the drug is added to the list, and it's set to a very high priority over other things.  Things like how you should work hard at your job, or get a better job, or get a job in the first place.  How you should study hard for the small business idea you have.  How you should take care of yourself so that others will be socially impressed by you, so you can form the social connections you need for your professional life.   

    More importantly what about family, family is on our list of things that bring pleasure, but if drugs is added to the list, it may and often does push family down the list, and drugs becomes more important.  

    Our fiction in entertainment is full of mythological creatures like zombies, and science fiction mind control of all sorts.  We are so intent on learning about these things, yet do we not see the mind control that is all over our society?  Mind, and mood controlling drugs hack our minds and change what is good and bad in a way we can little control.  How many drug addicts overcome their addition?  If they do overcome it, how well is their recovery?  No matter what they may have learned from their experience, think about how their lives could have been different without the mind control of those substances.  

    So many missed opportunities because of these substances.  When I watch entertainment, and I do watch a lot of it, I see so many different believes with drug use.  So entertainers want to make it into a joke, others want to show the tragedy of it, but only some.  It's clear many people are teaching a false believe that drugs are funny, and will bring happiness into your live.   All us anti-drug people need to stop trying to ruin the party.  Yes we can ruin a party but drug users and dealers will ruin peoples lives.  

    This is another thing that upsets me too, people need their own mind.  There own mind to find pleasure.  Live is full of pleasures, and we should seek after ones that are sustainable.  Because these pleasures will lead us to survival and prosperity, and the good things in live that money can't buy.  We need our own mind when we create relationships with others, both to protect us, and to help us accomplish it.  We need our own mind when we choose to work to create something, or improve something instead of stealing from what others have created.  

    Is pleasure good or bad?  I believe is a question of if the pleasure is natural not artificial.  Drugs are artificial pleasures.  We should avoid them at all cost.  They only justification could be medical use under a trained professional.  Not medical use for our selves.  Because if we take drugs, we metaphorically become like a zombie, with limited or no control over ourselves.  We cannot medicate ourselves with mind altering drugs, it obvious this is true when you finally see what they do to people.  

    People will become smarter, and wiser if they can give their natural mind a chance to work out how this world is supposed to be.