The Boddhi Tree is a Schedule One Controlled Substance

Every now and then I hear people in power speak their minds. Most of the time it's seems to be rather erroneous and maddening no matter their side of the isle, especially when it comes to the drug war. See here:

"People don't use drugs accidentally. They use them for self medication and for coping with life...I don't see a lot of recreational marijuana users any longer."
- William Janes, Florida’s director of the Office of Drug Control

Janes cited more faith-based involvement as well as more extensive measures in the Drug Free Workplace initiatives as solutions to the nation's drug problem.

It's hard to know where to begin with this.
Let's start with the meaning of "recreation" and how it can be used to replace "faith."

"Refreshment of one's mind or body after work through activity that amuses or stimulates; play."
- American Heritage

"Literally, to create again something that once existed or is believed to have existed but which no longer survives."
- Oxford

"Sometimes its use implies that the activities have positive value in terms of mental and physical therapy."
- Oxford

I will use these references later, as now I must touch on the idea that faith-based initiatives are a solution.

Faith is a contrived abstraction of what is concretely available in psychedelics, which are usually derived form either either fungi or flora that have been in existence longer than humanity. I was personally freed from organized religion by Sam Harris' The End of Faith and was freed from the subsequent debilitating nihilism by psychedelics.

Now to the supposed difference between "recreation" and "coping."

It is well known with many Beatles aficionados that John Lennon took LSD to escape the trials of fame and stress and thereby reconnect with the part of himself that produced the most authentic art.

Have you noticed the way some artists get out of touch with that part of themselves that is most authentic and creative once they have become rich and famous? This is not a coincidence. Nor is it a coincidence that Lennon's songwriting improved as the Beatles got older. The difference between Love Me Do and Tomorrow Never Knows is almost the difference between two completely different bands.

Allow me to describe what, exactly, takes place in this particular process. My ability to describe this is made possible by the inherent similarities in how all individuals experience and integrate altered states of consciousness.

When I recreationally use mind-altering compounds I am simultaneously doing two interrelated things; coping and recreation. Here I describe them in their true, singular context using the dictionary definitions above:

I am refreshing my mind by stimulating it beyond its ability to maintain a sense of self, which is where emotional baggage is anchored.

I am creating again the knowledge which no longer survives that All are One and One is All.

I am therapeutically exercising my sense and understanding of the unknown and undefinable.

There is no difference between "coping" and "recreation" in a world built of lies.

I shall not ask the establishment which forms of recreation are permitted because the establishment itself is the embodiment of an exile from true recreation.

As far as drug-free workplaces go, it is a no-brainer that wage slavery requires mental slavery.