09-19-2007, 05:18 PM | #31 | |
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09-20-2007, 06:30 AM | #32 | ||
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He smoked marijuana and tobacco in college (like a lot of other people at the time) and gave them both up just as easily when my mother got pregnant. I had my first cigarettes in high school, and chain smoked three in a row without any ill effects at all. What scared me was how much I liked it - it was the same compulsive reaching-for-another that I have with chips, popcorn, and chocolates, only even at 15 I was pretty sure the cigarettes were worse for me (also, more expensive, and illegal for me to buy). Quote:
I never made a habit out of it, and I shouldn't have had enough to form a chemical addiction, but I still get cravings (comparable to suddenly really wanting a chocolate - annoying but not uncontrolable). There's a chemical reward in there, and I'm apparently one of those people who is extremely vulnerable to being seduced by it.
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09-21-2007, 03:26 AM | #33 |
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Well, citing a couple of media examples, there's smoking in Event Horizon and Bladerunner. However, in the latter case the film is meant to be future-noir and one of the smokers is a replicant.
Aliens coming to Earth have gotten hooked on tobacco and caffine on the original Outer Limits ("Controlled Experiment") and Twilight Zone ("Will The Real Martian Please Stand Up"). Clearly a case of a new market for a product losing its old market; much like China today. Plus, there's the possibility of finding or developing new types of plants to dry out, chop up, and smoke. (No,no, not _that_ plant. That already exists. And is, of course, illegal.) Old products can sometimes be re-invented in new forms. The future holds new possibilities for new vices. |
09-21-2007, 03:51 AM | #34 | |
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09-21-2007, 06:40 AM | #35 | |
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We had a scene in Whispers where one of the characters was emotionally off balance, and an inquiry about chemical aid led to her being dispensed some THC over the counter. On the other hand, when I invented the Ataractic movement, I explicitly had them reject all "chemical reward" motives, whether supplied by consuming the substances from external sources or by engaging in activities that caused the brain to generate them. Governments with concerns about drug use might be encouraging such neopuritan movements. Bill Stoddard |
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09-21-2007, 06:55 AM | #36 |
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Once again, this falls down to biase. Those that are for the war on drugs will probably think that drugs will be illegal, and that there might even be more strict laws (who knows; maybe alcohol was replaced with synthetic alcohol in an enlightened society). Those that are against the war on drugs will probably envision a future where more drugs are made available (albeit regulated). I fall into the latter group.
It's hard to have an unbiased "view of the future", honestly. Because we're here in the present, with opinions based in the present.
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09-21-2007, 11:42 AM | #37 | |
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(And maybe even the abandonment of failed rhetorical devices such as "The War on [Abstract Noun]". We can hope.) But TS tends to assume more the replacement of clunky "natural" drugs with something smarter and more controllable. So one might see drug use, but probably not any drug which anyone here has heard of - at least in Fifth Wave areas.
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09-21-2007, 11:59 AM | #38 | |
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09-21-2007, 12:47 PM | #39 | ||
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So there is actually a canonical answer for drug (ab)use and law enforcement without us having to speculate. Most hallucinogens, sopoforic or antisocial behaviour-inducing drugs would probably qualify for LC 4, then, which would mean that in an average, relatively open society (CR 3), recreative drug use is entirely legal (see p. 507 in GURPS Basic 4e). In more restrictive societies (CR 4+; the Caliphate, the PRC, most nations in the TSA, etc.) drug use control would range from requiring registration of one's drug consumption to being condemned to forced labour or even executed/de-cerebrated. Oh, and on the sly: thanks for all your replies. I guess from what everybody has written that I have decided that some people still smoke in my TS campaigns. I know the Royal Marine Commandos do, anyway: "The last volume of Jane's Combat Bioroids says the Marathon is standard-issue for the UK's Royal Marines, with a few extra upgrades, like a filtration membrane. Now I know why Brigadier Lisa Rutherford-Hodges was so blasé about smoking six packs a day. 'Course, that's nothing - I hear Navy SEALS have gills these days." - Captain (ret.) Dana Martello, Marine Force Recon (GURPS Bio-Tech, p. 174) Max
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09-21-2007, 01:25 PM | #40 | |
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