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2. Living Men and Women
 
  2.3 Standards of a human adult  
  Article 83-Consumption and addiction to substances of a human adult  
83.1 Consumption and addiction to substances of a human child  
  A human drug is defined as any natural, refined or purely artificial substance which when ingested, injected or inhaled causes a physiological change in the human body to some degree. As all food when ingested causes extensive physiological changes in the human body, especially sugar, all food can also be classed as drugs.
  
  However, unlike food, a drug may have no nutritional value to the human body and may in fact be a carcinogenic and/or poison to the human body.
  
83.2 Human Drugs and consciousness
  
  As the definition of a drug is any substance that affects both the human body and mind to some degree, all drugs affect human consciousness and human cognitive abilities to some degree.
  
  All drugs undergo physical change as they are processed within the human body giving rise to a unique set of effects on the human body and human mind.
  
  The net effect of a drug may be compared to its effect on human consciousness as having either a suppressing or an expanding effect. Drugs that expand or enhance and stimulate emotional feelings and awareness are also commonly known as having hallucinogenic qualities.
  
  Drugs that are able to suppress or stimulate the human body and mind to a greater degree by relatively small quantities are defined as major drugs.
  
83.3 Negative cognitive impairment from drugs
  
  A significant determinant of what constitutes a major drug is any substance in relatively small quantities that has the capacity to effect major physical and cognitive change on a person. In many cases, the net effect of the drug can be said to impair cognition in some significant way.
  
  Major drugs that suppress certain cognitive functions and motor control such as alcohol, marijuana, sleeping pills, many pharmaceutical drugs and heroin can be said to cause a temporary or prolonged negative impairment.
 
  Major drugs that enhance and/or stimulate cognitive abilities such as speed, esctacy, acid, mushrooms and marijuana can be said to cause temporary or prolonged impairment in terms of hyper-body functions, overheating and lack of present moment cognition of reality. In many cases the over use of hallucinogenic drugs can cause several mental psychosis and delusions.
  
  Lack of normal control over cognitive and motor skills is a leading cause of accidental death throughout the world through car crashes, industrial accidents, accidental gun deaths and even a major cause of homicide. Therefore all major drugs that have the capacity to cause significant cognitive and motor skill impairment shall be known as controlled major drugs.
  
83.4 The knowledge of major controlled drugs  
  In the first instance, by this declaration the knowledge of the effects of all major controlled drugs should be information that is readily and freely available to all adult Men and Women.
  
  The knowledge and understanding of the effects of drugs is an essential component to effecting real and lasting social change in respect to drug addiction and drug related accidents and crime. A banning on knowledge of the effects and nature of major controlled drugs can never be considered a justified moral position as it can be strongly argued that a lack of knowledge of major controlled drugs is a major reason many people fall into addiction and psychosis.
  
  Therefore by this Declaration it shall be a goal of the United Nations to ensure major controlled drug education is freely available to all children as part of their learning curriculum and that a greater understanding leads to a greater personal control and responsibility regarding the use of major controlled drugs.
  
83.5 Major controlled drugs and personal use
  
  The over consumption of any major controlled drug, especially subject to an addiction shall be a primary focus of health control programs ahead of attempts to ban and prohibit the availability of major controlled drugs.
 
  In particular, civil offences as well as criminal offences shall exist for the illegal consumption of drugs (including alcohol) in public places as well as in a private environment in the presence of children.
 
  At the same time, the possession of major controlled drugs and their import and export shall be decriminilized as part of bringing all substances consumed by all persons of society under one transperent system of quality control, taxation and moderation.
 
83.6 Major controlled drugs and social temperance
  
  No moral position shall be tenable towards the continued banning of major controlled drugs where such demand exists from the population for its consumption.
 
  Such documentation and propaganda shall be considered a civil offence and individuals who pursue the banning of historic and natural drug crops ahead of synthetic pharamautical products may be liable for criminal offences.  
  All major controlled drugs shall be properly controlled in their manufacture, distribution, taxing, prescription and consumption.  
  The proper control of consumption of major controlled drugs is the only logical and common sense option for happy and harmonious society.
 
     
     
 
 

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