Drugs

i think a lot of drugs are actually purer than ppl think. most drug dealers do not want to kill off their business. the only time i have known drugs to be impure is coke cut with paracetomal so the dealer can get more out what he has. i know it does happen, and its really bad when it does, but a lot of deaths happen through overdose or the person just being badly informed e.g. ectsasy use and drinking to much alcohol/not enough water/too much water.

Actually a lot of drugs are cut with a lot of weird stuff, some absolutely harmless like flour or oil and some (that I have seen) have been cut with petrol, weed killer, bleach; mostly stuff you would find around the house. Drug dealers are not bothered about their 'customers' as many will tell you at thend of the day there is always someone wanting to buy. Also they are not always sure what is in the product that they buy as the person above them has cut the product with something.
I liked the ads in mags a few years back which did advice users on what to do if they use. Also its important that club owners and security recodnise people who can be using and are aware of neccessary medical attention.

i agree legalising all drugs would be the best solution to the problem of over dosing etc, although the number of users would probably rise, it would remove many of the dangers involved with drugs such as impurity, gang crime etcetc +it would make controlling a habit cheaper and thus less socially destructive than it is at the moment

it would also help parts of the world such as columbia and afghanistan where drug lords control much of the country

i think that if it was regulated properly most people would rather buy their drugs from a shop, legally without breaking the law than off pushers in the street. i also schools should provide much better drugs education than they do now, and at a younger age.

so all experiences in which we can 'have a good time' are a merit, regardless of the possibile consequences?



please expand on 'help people creatively'. having to escape reality to achieve creativeness doesn't do the best for an individual's mental health.

do children often become addicted to the dizzy feeling experienced from a roundabout - do they crave the feeling and need to return everyday to enable them to get through the rest of the day?

drugs are not an extension of the so-called standard human behaviour, they are a manipulation.



an experience to be shared with others?!! i take it you haven't suffered the delights of severe addiction when your body starts shutting down and becomes dependent on things you once thought were recreational. I'm sure people at that extreme aspect of the spectrum originally shared your sentiments too.

drugs are for losers

All drugs will still be expensive if regulated by government as they will be taxed horrendously and to signify that there permanent use is not ok. This will push people into buying it cheaper else where.

ok, i dont take addictive illegal drugs and that is the most obvious draw back to drugs. However, alcohol addicition is far easier to achieve and as the behavioural effects of alcohol are far more violent in their nature, more damaging.

You probably think of alcohol as a nice recreational thing at the moment in the same way i do about some non-addictive drugs i take.

i make checks on what im doing to minimise these dangers [which pale in comparison to those of alcohol]

creativity thing: im a musician, and when i took shrooms last year, i began to have musical ideas which i tried my best to record. These later helped me be more creative. This drug almost certainly gave me a different perspective on the creative process. I read a poem once called 'Khubla Khan' which was inspired while the writer was taking opium. Many musicians use draw to help them create.... i could go on, but basically drugs are used extensively to help creativity and speaking from personal experience this neednt result in harm to the artist.

and the thing about the extension of human behaviour was on that body hits program on bbc3 i think, which i imagine had a decent scientific advisor working on it...

, no wonder I got headaches.

I find it funny though that some countries rely on drugs as their cheif trade, Afghanistan, Colombia.. you know the rest. I think legalising drugs would stop terrorists and drug barons from making so much money!! So nationalise drugs, the governemnt could do with the revenue too.

All of you advocating the legalizing of drugs need to have a real think about the implications. It is absolutely ludacrous that a substance such as heroin would be nationalized and sold in public! There are no compelling arguments for legalizing drugs.... "the government could use the money" .... if the government are that short of money I would happily see a tax increase rather than live in a society where drugs are legal.

All of you advocating the legalizing of drugs need to have a real think about the implications. It is absolutely ludacrous that a substance such as heroin would be nationalized and sold in public! There are no compelling arguments for legalizing drugs.... "the government could use the money" .... if the government are that short of money I would happily see a tax increase rather than live in a society where drugs are legal.

Personal liberty does not mean license to do whatever you want. Should a person be allowed to kill another because of "liberty" ? You don't advocate legalising drugs but it is your liberty to take them? So one can disregard laws because "liberty" usurps them?

I wasn't arguing with you personally, I was quite alarmed by -



As for legalisation on the NHS for people who are already addicts, methadone is already available and many studies have shown that it isn't an effective way of weaning people off drugs. Personally I think locking someone in isolation for a month with adequate medical provision would be the best way of forcing people to rid themselves of heroin. This would not be prison so the emphasis would not be on punishment but on helping the individual.

I also think that laws should act as something of a moral benchmark. Inevitably people will always break the law and see it as harmless, that doesn't mean that we should repeal the law - what sort of message does this send out?


I am a firm believer of getting rid of the cause of the problem, I'd rather see a society where people would never need to do that because they weren't addicted, not because they can get it for free from the NHS.