Question: Currently in Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, as well as in some other former Soviet republics, there are more than ever people who are sentenced for drug trafficking. The fact is that both those who sell drugs and those who buy and consume them usually do it voluntarily. Wouldn’t it be more logical and fair to hold them accountable only if they harm others? After all, not all drug users are a threat to others. Why keep them at bay by forcing them to deal with the black market? Why do you not just make drugs freely available like alcohol and cigarettes? I understand that this is an unrealistic proposal for the current so-called justice system in our countries. However, I am just interested in this question from the point of view of the Law of Free Will.
Answer from the Ascended Master Saint Germain through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2023 Kazakhstan Conference.
Well, you need to consider here that any society needs to create laws. This applies equally to Russia, the former Soviet republics, as to countries in the West or other democratic nations around the world. A country needs to create laws, and if the country is functioning in a reasonable way, those laws will be created based on what is best for the majority of the people. And once you have created laws, then you naturally need to have an apparatus that can enforce those laws and therefore deal with those who violate the law in whatever way the country and the laws prescribe. This will be individual for each country, depending on the level of the collective consciousness.
Naturally, there are countries, there are states in the United States who have made certain drugs legal, and there is debate among many countries about whether to make certain drugs legal. But it is not enough here to look at the free will of the drug users and say that, well, they should have the right to use drugs as they have the right to use alcohol because there are more complicated issues involved with this. We have talked a little bit about this before in some answers to older questions, but what I want to say for now is that it is clear that in the future, in the golden age, as we move further into the golden age, there will be created synthetic drugs that will allow people to change their state of mind in various ways. And these drugs will become legal, and they will have less side effects in terms of health dangers than, for example, tobacco, alcohol, or the drugs that are there today.
The drugs that are there right now, such as marijuana, have very serious dangers to health as well as very dangerous spiritual side effects, and therefore, it is not quite so simple to say that if you allow people to use these drugs and they do not understand the dangers, you are just allowing them to outplay their free will. Is it free will when they do not understand the dangers to their health? Were people exercising their free will 50 years ago when they did not know anything about the dangers of smoking? Then there are the spiritual side effects that are also very dangerous in many of these drugs and can actually set people on a track that will take them several lifetimes to overcome where they dull their spiritual faculties. Can you really say that when people do not understand this, that they are exercising their free will?
It is clear that as we move further and further into the golden age, there will be a change in the laws around drugs, but there will also be a change in the way people look at drugs because many people take drugs because they want to numb their minds because they have such severe psychological issues that it is too much of a psychological, emotional pain for them. And this will, of course, disappear as we move into the golden age and people are taught from childhood how to deal with their psychology. The need for drugs, the desire to take drugs will be less. There will still be some people who have a desire to change their state of mind in various ways and to do this in a chemical way because they are not willing to engage in the spiritual path.
And as societies become more and more, you might say, tolerant of differences, they will have to allow these people to do this, but as I said, there will also be certain drugs that will allow them to do it in a more safe manner. Now, of course, you always have the prospect of some of these books such as 1984 and other books where they talk about drugs being used to control the population and numb the population. And this is already, to some degree, happening, which is one of the reasons why the fallen beings are doing everything they can to actually proliferate drugs in society and to prevent effective law enforcement and putting a stop to it, because they are using the drugs as a way to numb people spiritually. And this, of course, is something that will also disappear as we move into the golden age and the awareness is raised.
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