The Atheist Case For Recreational Drug Use

I’ve always wondered about this. If life is as the typical atheist conceives it, why would they not be in favor of or even demand the right to use any drug? I’m not saying this ‘tongue in cheek’, I really do wonder about this.

For background I quote Setanta from a previous thread:

This being the case, you have only this one in a trillion chance for existence, never to be repeated again. If you don’t experience something now in this irreplaceable life, it is lost to you forever. Why would you NOT want the opportunity to experience the perceptions that only certain ‘controlled substances’ can bring you?

I can understand caution, you don’t want to **** up your brain and risk messing up future minutes of this limited existence. But really now, we are intelligent enough to see past the ‘This is your brain on drugs’ nonsense. We know they don’t all have that effect. Even medical researchers are asking the government to lift the ban on such ‘dangerous’ drugs like LSD. Why don’t atheists who should be the most pragmatic thinkers on the planet demand that the government spend our hard earned tax dollars on how to safely use drugs rather than propaganda ads against them?

Perhaps you are totally satisfied with your drug free life and want to spend every minute of it perfectly ‘natural’ (whatever that means) , but surely you would not demand that everyone conform to your standard. There really IS no meaning let alone ‘standard’ on drug use to any honest atheist. And of course there is no ‘Flying spaghetti monster’ in the sky to judge us so that’s no reason to ban anyone’s kicks.

And there are those unpredictable things that happen in this single chance to live that might affect your perspective later. What if an accident or disease leaves you totally paralyzed, deaf, blind, unable to have sex, whatever your worst case scenario is. Would you not want to experience existence from another perspective or see things with senses you never knew you had or feel pleasures beyond your normal existence? Personally, I’d be livid if I were denied the chance for those opportunities in that situation.

Then there is the unexpected medical diagnosis. You are going to die in 3 – 6 months. Want a virtually cost free chance to see what ‘that drug’ does for you?

So what say you atheists? What is your reason for not wanting to use or at least legalize recreational drugs?