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Not only the Army fears the widespread use of drugs, particularly
dope, which turn people non violent. The Church(es) is another vested
interest working against the use of drugs. Their reason? Drugs can
provide alternative religious experience, as consumers of
hallucinogens and mushrooms proclaim. Many, if not most, of shamanic
religions and old pagan religions were in some or other way based on
the use of some drug or another, and even the use of incense in
today`s christian churchs is reminiscent of the use of substances to
help `commune with the gods`. Since any church has the faculty to
interpret and lead the ways people commune with God, even though the
church in itself would not engage in side effects, by sanctioning the
ban on drugs on religious grounds (God doesn`t want people to use
drugs), ths gives the other parties involved in achieving side effects
the moral authority, and yes, the peace of conscience to perform their
activities. To established churchs the possibility that people would
form new religions or find new ways to satisfy the desire to reach the
Infinite and trascendental experiences through drugs must be very well
the equivalent to hell on Earth. Therefore drugs are the Sign of Evil,
despite the obvious facts that natural drugs (at least) are *also* an
expression of the same God they pontificate, that the human brain is
*able* to appreciate (at least) some good effects, even when those
good effects come at a cost too high to be worth the effort, and that
the desire to consume drugs has been observed throughout the history
of humanity in almost all cultures, with the possibly notable
exception of the current, contemporary, occidentalized cultures. Drugs
have a potential to be surrounded by ritual, the expectation,
preparation, consumption and then enjoyment of their effects, that is
a further source of worry to established religions. Churches are an
important component in the possibility of side effects.