Drugs

why is it acceptable to drink but if you take drugs you are negatively stero-typed? alchol can do just as much damage. thousands of ppl die a week from alchol abuse. nowhere near that amount of ppl die from drug abuse. oh and youre more likely to die chewing on a cabbage leaf than taking ecstasy (according to a film but i cant remember what one). smokings just as bad as well. if youre smoking grass, at least you get something out of it (you get high) if you just smoke cigs all you get is lung cancer.

Your right smoking and alcohol are just as bad but it doesnt make the use of classified drugs any better.

Your right smoking and alcohol are just as bad but it doesnt make the use of classified drugs any better.

That's the biggest load of crap I've read in a long time.

heard of the misuse of drugs act, 1971?

oh yeah i know, i mean smack is far worse than alcohol, but i think alcohol is worse than weed. for one, ppl get far more violent wen they are drinking, but if they have just had a smoke, they dont wanna fight anyone, thats far to much effort!

Yeah, a major difference is that the use of legal drugs such as alcohol are quality regulated. You aren't likely to drop dead due to an impurity in a bottle of budweiser, where as any potentially lethal impurities can be mixed in with a tablet of ecstacy without you realising before hand.

cant say ive read it...

i'd have thought petrol was a solvent? and i didnt think it was illegal either

Controlled substances come in a variety of forms, They all induce different effects and are classified by the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971.

Solvents such as petrol are also classified as a drug under this act. I never said petrol was illegal.

Weed though can cause induced schizophrenia in some patients and cause brain damage but then so does alcohol. Also alcohol doesnt make everyone want to fight. Binge drinking has a lot to answer for in the unsocial effects of alcohol use.

no, it doesnt make everyone want to fight, your right, but people who have smoked a lot are a lot less likely to be violent at the time than someone who is blind drunk, from my experience anyway.

personally i think if they legalized drugs (with strict age regulations etc) there would be a lot less problems with ppl OD-ing as they wouldnt be full of crap. also, people wouldnt have to buy their drugs from nasty ppl and 16 year old runaways wouldnt be snatched up by pimps and have their whole lives taken away from them. i know a lot of ppl will probably strongly disagree with this opinion, but i think it would work.

Impurities in street drugs is usually what causes deaths in users. Also methadone which is particularly toxic is used for heroine withdrawal and is a big contender in deaths seen in heroine addicts.

Id say there was actually, drugs [illegal or not] are often used as social things that help people have a good time (merit surely)

while others [hallucinogens] can often help people creatively.... thats merit enough compared to a lot of other purposeless things humans do. From a young age, we try and experience altered states of conscience, be it through getting really dizzy on a roundabout to having a drink. Drugs are an extention of this standard human behaviour.

Personally i dont take drugs to 'get wasted' like so many people do with alcohol. I see it as an experience to be shared with others.

I think legalisation is saying that its ok to use these substances when its not. they were banned for a reason as they reduced worker productivity and still caused deaths. there will still be people on the street sellling bad drugs at a cheaper price and will be pushing outside schools to get kids hooked just like they do know. Restriction is the key and the law shouldnt be changed to allow easier use. I do think treatment programmes for heroine users should be changed and would like to see the removal of methadone being used in treatment.

i was just going on the wording of the original post in this thread...

no, you were trying to be pedantic with the wrong person.. :d

Smoke weed occassionally, but only between friends. There's nothing like a sunday afternoon, friends, a comedy film and a few tubs of ben and jerry's. Would never try anything stronger.