Comments on: Slate Promotes Drug Use

By: Tola

Tola — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 18:22:43 +0000

Hello. There’s so much pollution in the air now that if it weren’t for our lungs there’d be no place to put it all.
I am from Estonia and , too, and now am writing in English, give please true I wrote the following sentence: “Everybody loves to find cheap airline tickets.”
Thanks . Tola.

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By: brianmiller

brianmiller — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 21:03:38 +0000

I spent the last two years of my BFA hooked on anything that would keep me going. Between six hours of class and six hours of homework. Then six to eight hours of work. I needed every bit of edge I could get. I started on Adderall and after about six months I found it was easier and more effective to get coke. Keep in mind I got strait “A’s” and every one loved my performance. On the flip side I nearly lost my mind and spent countless amounts of money on these drugs. I cant even imagine what physical effects I had done to my body. I can tell you this was a bad idea, I now can hold my own without any drug. I just need a balanced diet along with a good night sleep. With this I can achieve anything I put my mind to you. And when it comes to creativity I can assure you that it doesn’t do anything but make you less coherent. I’m more creative and clear now that I have sobered up.
Brian
Narconon Vista Bay

By: Rehab

Rehab — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 10:23:17 +0000

If we don

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 20:04:57 +0000

i took an adhd pill and they do work good, but for me its not the case. the pill was ritalin some shit like that. and i went to play soccer. i tought it was going to be like a enhacing drug. but it suck i had the biggest chest pain ever i coul not run after 5 minutes the game start. im in a really good shape. im really fit for soccer. i been playing since i was 4. and when the game was finishing i started with cramps. i ate 2 bananas a lot of water. but it was really bad. like really bad cramps..usually you get them really after a game. and i never get cramps. so i dont recomend adhd pill for atheletes…..

By: Alcohol Rehab

Alcohol Rehab — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 14:26:10 +0000

Legalizing drugs would sound paradoxal, but it would actually eliminate a problem and drug lords would slowly disappear.

By: Jason Kuznicki

Jason Kuznicki — Fri, 13 May 2005 16:58:17 +0000

Instead of a trackback ping:
http://www.positiveliberty.com/2005/05/performance-enhancers.html
It’s from a capitalist but not a Protestant perspective, as you might expect.

By: Petronius Arbiter

Petronius Arbiter — Thu, 12 May 2005 22:55:04 +0000

therefore, those with the proverbial “Protestant Work Ethic” should despise this Adderall business.

By: Petronius Arbiter

Petronius Arbiter — Thu, 12 May 2005 22:54:27 +0000

I see where you are going, Paul, but I think you have misordered the logical chain.
Paul (I think): hard work helps you get ahead and hard work is a virtue, so that which gets you ahead is virtuous (or at least is not NOT virtuous).
“Calvin” (really just me channeling Calvin): hard work is virtuous, hard work helps you get ahead, but if you get ahead without working hard, you are doing it without the element of getting ahead that is virtuous, so you are not virtuous.

By: Paul

Paul — Thu, 12 May 2005 17:20:29 +0000

“On the other hand, a drug that actually improves one’s concentration and writing abilities does seem like cheating–just like performance-enhancing drugs for athletes. It runs counter to the ethic that hard work (physically or mentally) gets you ahead.”
Thanks for this–I hadn’t been able to write out this counter-viewpoint (ironically because of a lack of caffeine–my brain is fuzzy in the morning). I just don’t see how to separate “hard work as a virtue” (the Weberian interpetation of Calvinism) from “hard work helps you get ahead.” And if “this blue pill helps you get ahead,” then I don’t understand why it would be sinful–assuming, of course, that it’s non- or mildly-addictive.