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Osho About Drugs
What are your thoughts on the drug problem that exists
in the North American society:
cocaine usage, marijuana? Any thoughts on that?
In fact,
all the governments
should help the scientists
to find
better drugs
with lesser side effects,
rather than repressing drugs.
It is stupid.
Whenever you
start stopping something
you give
great importance to it,
and particularly to the youth.
It becomes a provocation.
The government is responsible for all
young people
who are being destroyed by drugs.
There is no need.
In my
birthplace,
just
in front of
my house,
there was
a beautiful temple.
I persuaded
the priest of the temple
that because
of the big wall
around the
campus,
people
used that wall as place to urinate.
And it was
in such a space where
you can sit down,
nobody will be seeing you.
So, write down
on the wall in big letters,
"Pissing here is absolutely prohibited."
He, of course, was convinced.
Before that, nobody had pissed there.
After that,
you could count
lines of people!
The priest was very angry.
He came to my father
and he said, "Your boy is
dangerous.
I have never seen people
queuing,
and when I asked them they said,
'Just because you have written it,
immediately the idea arises.'"
Any prohibition
is dangerous.
But
the Christian God started the
whole stupid thing,
by prohibiting Adam and Eve, saying not to eat
from the tree of knowledge
and the tree of life.
Now, in the Garden of Eden there
must have been millions of trees.
If
God had not prohibited about those two trees,
I don't think even now
we would have found them.
It was impossible.
But prohibiting it
and then
dumping the whole thing on
the poor snake, the serpent....
God has done it already.
He provoked.
All these governments
should make an effort
that better drugs are available
which give you
more euphoria,
more joy,
and no side effects.
Now science is capable of doing it.
But you don't allow drugs here in Rajneeshpuram.
No.
But you are saying outside of Rajneeshpuram it's okay?
No, I am saying
these drugs
are not okay.
And the reason is, because
because governments are prohibiting them.
Otherwise
science could have figured it out
very easily....
LSD can be more purified,
and then
it should be made available without prescription,
through medical stores,
through hospitals.
In fact, every hospital should have a room.
Anybody who wants
a drug experience
under medical care,
he should be given it,
because it is worth having.
And I think that is the only way
to take the whole charm
out of drugs.
In India they have
tried many times to prohibit
alcohol.
And each time they prohibit it,
many more people start drinking.
And they drink a wrong kind of alcohol,
because it is made
by people themselves.
All kinds of poisoning
accidents happen.
Thousands of people die,
because they have drunk
something
they knew nothing about.
Again and again the same stupidity.
Then they
withdraw the
prohibition
and the percentage of people
drinking alcohol falls immediately.
In fact,
the way you have made the society,
people are so miserable
that they need something
to forget
what is happening to their life:
what their wife is doing to them,
what their boss is doing to them,
what their husband is doing to them,
what their children are doing to them.
They need,
those poor people need something,
at least to have
a few hours
of relaxation.
My people don't need it;
that's why I don't allow it here.
We have better methods.
Our meditations
are nothing but drugs --
perfect drugs,
without any chemicals in them.
A man who can meditate
will not
be able
to enjoy the drug,
any drug,
because
his meditation
gives him so much peace,
and the drug will disturb it.
Drugs never give you anything.
If you are too disturbed,
then a drug
relaxes you.
But if you are at the peak
of your bilss,
a drug will relax you
downwards.
So people who live in the valleys
need drugs.
People who live on the peaks
don't need them.
Our people don't need them.
It is not because
of any government
law
that we are prohibiting people
from bringing drugs in.
It is because of our own people:
they don't need it.
In fact, it is
destructive to their meditation,
their love,
their joy.
The drug makes them dull,
stupid,
takes away
the sharpness of their intelligence.
But, what I am saying about
the outside world
is
that governments should
emphasize the fact, that it is
a tremendous problem.
Sending young people
to imprisonment
does not help.
You simply destroy those young people,
you destroy their education.
And I have
not seen that a single person
who has been imprisoned,
has been changed.
He comes out and again...
back
to the drugs.
Now he comes out
more
professional
than he had gone into the prison...
because there are
experts already
inside the prison
who know more about drugs.
He was just an amateur.
From all those people he gets all the ideas of
other drugs
that you will get in Kabul,
in Manali,
in Kathmandu,
in Goa...
where you will get the real thing.
There is no need for all this nonsense.
Courts are involved,
jails are involved,
young people are destroyed.
It is the duty of every government
to provide people with some kind
of relaxation,
some kind of peace,
some kind of silence.
If you cannot provide meditation,
at least you can provide medicine.
To me, drugs should be medicine.
And if
we want,
we can
change
all bad effects.
It can become a healthy thing.
Each Sunday morning,
rather than going to the church,
you just
go on a trip!
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