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Shouldn't a LSD/Mushies dodah be as illegal as a Hive-Mind dodah?

What's illegal in the 24th century?

  • Pot and Mushies?

    Votes: 1 16.7%
  • Just Pot?

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Just Mushies?

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Niether pot nor mushies?

    Votes: 5 83.3%

  • Total voters
    6

Guy Gardener

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Religiously and historically before whitey turned up, Indian's loved the drugs. Which is true of most places included where whitey came from but in the 24th century what the shamans for thousands of years preceding did chemically, the post modern Indian can do electromagnetically... JUST LIKE THE BORG!

Ceremonial use, religious use is fine, surely, but how much of a fustercluck would it be to use these LSD/mushie machines recreationally for a good night in (not too different from what the Equinox folkes blissed out on with their virtual wallpaper earpieces.) and how long until the hive minds grew larger and larger until Voyager became a Unimatrix no one's individuality could escape from?

Surely it's safer and less time is nigh just to let the crew replicate Pot?
 
what have you been smoking?

Nothing, but Chakotays animal spirit guide machine has been pissing me off for the last 15 years almost as much as Kirks "Psycho-tricorder" which can verify honesty with Clausian certainty.

Pissing me off cause it exists in conflict with all reason and pissing me off that it was NEVER mentioned again... Did he use it by himself in the shuttle where he met Nog or was he just using "special" candles?

Pot candles?

How freaking stoned was Chuckles in Initiations?

Did Chakotay imagine Initiations while tripping?
 
With all the aliens, laws in the Federation, including drug laws, must be pretty strange. Other than Tasha's after-school-special talk with Wesley in "Symbiosis", Trek's been very vague about what's allowed (like Chakotay's stuff) and what isn't (Romulan Ale), and why what is is and what isn't isn't.

Trek's age-of-consent laws (Neelix/2-year old Kes, reverse-ageing aliens, extreme lifespan aliens etc) must be a lot stranger:ack:
 
Don't do drugs because it kills your brain!

Not to mention the support to the Colombian drug barons and Al-Qaeda who makes a lot of money by selling and distributing it.

As for the 24th century, it looks like Federation citizens have developed and realized that drugs are something from humanity's dark ages.
 
Just like replicators don't do Alcohol and sugar (Was that in novels or TNG, something about chocolate?)?

Isn't it so condescending that you can use a replicator to make weapons enough to kill a few hundred people in half an afternoon but you can't (I imagine there's a lengthy black list of "unsafe' substances you can't replicate without some higher authority or special pass.) replicate a cold beer after a hard days work.

Synthol, for the liver that can't even be bothered to forfeit.
 
Don't do drugs because it kills your brain!

Not to mention the support to the Colombian drug barons and Al-Qaeda who makes a lot of money by selling and distributing it.

As for the 24th century, it looks like Federation citizens have developed and realized that drugs are something from humanity's dark ages.


A century earlier but never mind, in ONE (MANY!!!!) of the original scripts for City on the Edge of Forever, before Harlon got locked up in Gene's Office and told that he wasn't allowed out till he produced a usable script, it was McCoy trying to reason with a Junkie that is how he ended up with the business end of a hypospray shooting him up... Gene agrees with you, but I'm pretty sure Odo had to deal with drug smugglers or insinuated that Quark was a drug Smuggler at one point.

But that was mostly not humans nor federation citizens probably?
 
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I was always under the impression that the space peyote button was... well... a non-toxic legal version of peyote with no ill effects (other than seeing creepy crap on your vision quests)

Maybe it only works for its intended purpose somehow?

Or um... man, the visual of everyone sitting around stoned out of their minds with those things in their hands is kinda funny.
 
They were all Dunk in TOS ALLLLLLLLLLL the time.

Not so different.

That galaxy sized amoeba was actually space whale shit on the windscreen.

No space vehicle pilot should be without their beer goggles.
 
A lot of times sci-fi writers have gotten around mentioning actual drugs by saying "spice". Like Han Solo in Star Wars... just something interesting.
 
A lot of times sci-fi writers have gotten around mentioning actual drugs by saying "spice". Like Han Solo in Star Wars... just something interesting.

Doesn't the video game Spore make reference to this by having Spice be the main currency once you hit the space stage of evolution? I think it was Spice, anyway.

brainsarenotlogical, your signature makes me giggle.
 
On a tangent, didn't Chakotay state that B'elanna was the only person he knew who tried to kill their animal guide.:)
 
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