Why are people who have never tried drugs, allowed an opinion?

Any time you read about some sportsman/woman or actor/actress doing a drug such as cocaine it is written in such a way that makes it sound as if it's the worst thing a human being could possibly do. That person is vilified and made out to be evil incarnate. This then allows all kinds of morons to come out of the woodwork expressing their views etc, yet you can almost always guarantee they've never even seen the drug in person, let alone tried it.

I can pretty much guarantee that anyone who has smoked weed or knows people who smoke it would freely admit that the drug causes almost zero harm. Compare it to alchohol....

The ignorance and stupidity that surrounds drugs is akin to the ignorance shown towards religion in this country. Yet we accept it. Why?

I'd be interested to see how many of you have/haven't taken drugs and what your opinions are on the matter.

Any time you read about some sportsman/woman or actor/actress doing a drug such as cocaine it is written in such a way that makes it sound as if it's the worst thing a human being could possibly do. That person is vilified and made out to be evil incarnate. This then allows all kinds of morons to come out of the woodwork expressing their views etc, yet you can almost always guarantee they've never even seen the drug in person, let alone tried it.

I can pretty much guarantee that anyone who has smoked weed or knows people who smoke it would freely admit that the drug causes almost zero harm. Compare it to alchohol....

The ignorance and stupidity that surrounds drugs is akin to the ignorance shown towards religion in this country. Yet we accept it. Why?

I'd be interested to see how many of you have/haven't taken drugs and what your opinions are on the matter.

I've never met a Muslim person, but as they get loads of bad press am I allowed to be critical of them?

It's ignorance and stupidity whatever way you choose to look at it.

Have you ever raped a girl?

Do you have an opinion on rape?

Weed,cocaine,LSD,heroine,crack,meth,speed all those are pussy drugs.Nothing beats Nutmeg yo!

Do you have an opinion on paedophilia?

Why are they "losers"?

Basing your opinion on Muslim people because of the bad press they get is really not the same thing as basing your opinion on drugs because you have seen people you love get destroyed and killed by it. Basing your opinion on Muslim people because of the bad press they get would also be quite ignorant seeing as most well-educated people know that the majority of Muslims are not the people that the press make them out to be. On the other hand, most people know that hard drugs have mostly, or even wholly, negative effects on those who take it.

Also, I bet you have met a Muslim person at some point in your life but that's not the point.

As far as I can see the issue of rape isn't complicated, whereas the issue of drugs and their effects are.

Comparing the two is therefore pointless.

Er, the point was, drugs and Muslims get bad press, so surely if I can spill uninformed rubbish about drugs I can also do it about Muslims?

You then say the following:



Surely using that context you can argue exactly the same for drugs. Anyone who is well-educated is well aware that cannabis should be legalised and is not as bad as the press makess it out to be?

Pointless to you, but then you are clearly pro-drugs too Yes, rape is a little more clear-cut, but I needed a simplified example in order to give perspective. If I'd picked another controversial example as a comparison then it would've helped little.

To move on slightly, there are examples of the damage done by drugs (not to everyone, but to those who abuse them) and then the NHS has to mop up the mess. Drugs (recreational) don't serve any benefit, so why should the tax-payer pay to fix the mess that other people have got themselves into? True, yes that's only those who abuse, so why not make the drugs legal, but abusing them illegal? Well, how could you possibly regulate that?

Er, the point was, drugs and Muslims get bad press, so surely if I can spill uninformed rubbish about drugs I can also do it about Muslims?

Honest queston EsStupido, how many first timers do you know that have been ****** up from their first joint? like had a bad trip or something?

I'm not going to say anything against it, as it will obviously be FAR lower than those who get ****** on alcohol on their first us, I'm just curious, and like I said, honestly... any other pot smokers can answer this too

Adressing the OP, this thread is a nonsense.

The very weak underlying point in this argument is that only experiencing something should enable you to have an opinion on the matter.

Do you think it should be illegal for people to murder?

How can you have a view without experiencing the joy of the kill?!

The point about whether drugs harm others is a completley different matter from anything you've said here.

Most people will 'green out' or whatever, but you don't tend to get a 'bad trip' - or at least I've never met anyone who can say they have. A 'bad trip' would be more commonly associated with taking pills, MDMA, ketamine...lots of things like that.

Yeah for sure, thanks for the response. I do think the **** needs to just be legalized already, I'm against drugs, I don't like the idea that people should need to intoxicate themselves, but I'm also pro-freedom, and you just have to walk through a city centre, any one, and see hundreds of young people, pumped up, aggressive, violent, doing crazy ****, and just saying, oh no big deal, i was drunk... If I was a pot smoker, I would be rather outraged at the hypocrisy of the government. Why not just tax it, and regulate it. How do you suggest stopping people driving when intoxicated though? theres no breathalizer for weed, perhaps handing in their drivers license at a clinic or something. It's crazy, that people who want to smoke a safer drug, are being sent to often dodgy dealers, who then push other more dangerous stuff onto them, cocaine, pills etc...