Article: New drugs that evade legal bans exploding

Mind altering and addictive drugs are prohibited as they destroy the person's ability to function in a civil society. They often turn to crime to get the money for their next hit. Also, have a look at how England used drugs to conquer parts of China.
 
BandwidthAddict said:
Mind altering and addictive drugs are prohibited as they destroy the person's ability to function in a civil society. They often turn to crime to get the money for their next hit. Also, have a look at how England used drugs to conquer parts of China.
Click to expand...

sigh, and what does alcohol do?

I can tell you I used various narcotics for over 10 years since leaving school. I function just fine. As do the thousands upon thousands of people who smoke weed daily/weekly.
 
syntax said:
sigh, and what does alcohol do?

I can tell you I used various narcotics for over 10 years since leaving school. I function just fine. As do the thousands upon thousands of people who smoke weed daily/weekly.
Click to expand...

Maybe you think you function fine.

So why do you think some drugs are illegal and others not ?
 
Bern said:
rather than continue this I understand your point, but I don't agree that making hardcore addictive substances legal (as in no controls) will solve the problem. Changing the way addicts are dealt with, I can see a lot of value in that - i.e. programs to rehab, not jail. Clean needles are available at any pharmacy, so that is not the issue. Addicts need help, but I don't think opening the door to dealers to sell more is the way to go. Regulations need to help addicts, not shun them, but at the same time minimise the amount of these substances becoming available.

Cigarettes are a great example, since advertising has been limited and especially the ban on smoking in public spaces the number of smokers is dropping drastically. As an ex smoker I wish these had been in effect when I started smoking I probably wouldn't have started in the first place.
Click to expand...

One of the main reasons I support legalization is to cut out on unsavoury middlemen.

It's a complex subject, but please understand that I am not calling for a situation where people can buy heroin at the petrol station.

In some senses, when it comes to so called 'hard' drugs, I am calling for more regulation than there is now (which is none at all), but that's a minefield once profits and businesses become involved, as always.

Bottom line is the punitive approach must be stopped, as all it does is add to the problem. Of this there is no doubt whatsoever.
 
syntax said:
sigh, and what does alcohol do?

I can tell you I used various narcotics for over 10 years since leaving school. I function just fine. As do the thousands upon thousands of people who smoke weed daily/weekly.
Click to expand...

I'll take your anecdote and raise you mine. A close family member got exposed to weed early on and has spent the remainder of his life pursuing his high.

He lives on the street and is a known thief. All attempts to help him have failed and everyone has just given up on him.

Also, you assume I approve of alcohol. I consider all mind altering drugs, including the legal kind, to be stupid and a sign off weakness. I look down upon all those that partake as pathetic.
 
BandwidthAddict said:
I'll take your anecdote and raise you mine. A close family member got exposed to weed early on and has spent the remainder of his life pursuing his high.

He lives on the street and is a known thief. All attempts to help him have failed and everyone has just given up on him.

Also, you assume I approve of alcohol. I consider all mind altering drugs, including the legal kind, to be stupid and a sign off weakness. I look down upon all those that partake as pathetic.
Click to expand...

Well your close family member is weak or an idiot. Anyone that has ever smoked pot knows that there is no high, that you will never reach again, and continuously chase
 
_kabal_ said:
Well your close family member is weak or an idiot. Anyone that has ever smoked pot knows that there is no high, that you will never reach again, and continuously chase
Click to expand...

He got started on weed and now does hard drugs. Yes he is weak and refuses to wake up. Drugs are for weak people.
 
BandwidthAddict said:
He got started on weed and now does hard drugs. Yes he is weak and refuses to wake up. Drugs are for weak people.
Click to expand...

I'd take a bet that this person used alcohol and nicotine before they used cannabis.

Whatever their issue is, I very much doubt you can isolate it to one specific drug.
 
Drugs are for weak people.
Click to expand...
Clearly abstinence is for the weak.

copacetic said:
I'd take a bet that this person used alcohol and nicotine before they used cannabis.

Whatever their issue is, I very much doubt you can isolate it to one specific drug.
Click to expand...
It has little to do with the drugs. People make choices all the time, even those who are more prone than others to getting addicted to things.
 
noxibox said:
It has little to do with the drugs. People make choices all the time, even those who are more prone than others to getting addicted to things.
Click to expand...

Certainly. I'm just tired of the canard that cannabis somehow turns people into raving drug abusers.
 
copacetic said:
Certainly. I'm just tired of the canard that cannabis somehow turns people into raving drug abusers.
Click to expand...

+1, I use to smoke cannabis on occasion in my twenties esp when I hanged out with friends(IE recreational). I since stopped, not because of any reason other than its a slept to go find some. Yes I know some people that moved on to hard drugs but in the same line I know even more that did not.

Drug abuse is more about's peoples psych than the drug in question.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top
Sign up to the MyBroadband newsletter
X