DRUGS AND LAWS

Selmane Felipe de Oliveira, PhD

Timothy Leary and William Burroughs were into drugs. Kurt Cobain and other musicians too. There was a "dream machine" on Cobain's suicide. It was a thing "patended by William Burroughs collaborator Brion Gysin. A dream machine is a cylinder with light source inside that routes, causing the light to flash 10.56 times per second, which resonates with the brain, causing alpha waves to be produced and inducing a trance-like state." (Vox, November 1995, p. 28)

Basically, it works as a drug and it may cause suicide. However, as the free use of the tea of "santo daime" in Brazil - for some people, it's drug -, the United States Government was not against the dream machines. For the American Food and Drug Administration, "they posed no danger to the user." (Vox, November 1995, p. 28)

Drug and law depend on each country. Dream machine and santo daime's tea make people feel different. Their vision of reality is like a fantasy. That's what a drug normally does.

If you take cocaine, for example, it's wrong and against the law, but if you use dream machine or santo daime's tea, there's no problem. Alcohol and cigarretes are bad.. what about the laws?

To take drugs on the pubs in Rio de Janeiro, New York or Amsterdam will be not the same thing. If you are in Brazil or U.S.A., you'll have problems with the police.

Law is not based on truth.

The government depends on corporations. Nobody cares about healthy. It's just business.