Drug use- ur opinion?

I admit drugs can do a lot of harm - but it what you use and how you use it that can determine how much harm is caused.

Drug use will never go away - people will always find ways to get their hands on it. But it would help if people were educated... and kept it to themselves.

There are some drugs that, frankly, the majority of the population would never benefit from. How many of you have heard of someone that uses herion carefully and moderately? Not many. Most will become biologically hooked and begin a downward spiral to degradation. Personally, I knew someone who did tell me they'd had some that night, but just as a once in a while kind of thing. They didn't get back off it, sadly.

Some drugs, however, should become available in a safer way, cannabis for example, while not 100% safe, has no long term harm when used safely and moderately (and won't make most people crazy like the statistic say - that's only a small portion of the population who are prone to it). It's not only enjoyable for casual users - but it can offer an alternative to medicines that have some very nasty side-effects. It has many powerful medical properties to subdue symptoms of illness with relatively mild side-effects. If it were regulated in the same way as alcohol, and user kept the smoke to themselves like with tobacco, not forcing it uppon others - how is that not acceptable?

I disagree with tobacco and cannabis smokers who are inconsiderate of other people around them. People should be able to choose whether they breathe in the smoke or not. How do you escape it though when people are puffing away round every corner? Well, one benefit did arise from it - I can now hold my breath while running and walking for lengths of time, due to avoiding second hand smoke - but not everyone is able to hold their breath 40%+ the time they spend outside! Why should they have to anyway?

Drug/drink driving really angers me. If you're going to drink/do drugs... don't get behind the wheel of a car until you're sober. Please.

There are some drugs I don't have an opinion on - simply I don't know enough about them, and know there are some people who can cope wih moderate use on them, without hurting anyone else, and an equal number who cannot use them without trouble. It's a case of... should all users be being punished for the faults of some?
 
I think Cannabis should be legal to have/use as it's not physically addictive, helps people with illnesses etc.

Smoking tobacco and drinking alcohol is far more physically damaging, though in different ways. I think they should both be legal, but some smokers need to smoke away from non-smokers and some alcohol drinkers also need to make sure it doesn't become anyone elses problem, drink-driving etc.
 
ill reply to this but chances are somebodies got this same opinion and view. everything is worth trying once, but its up to you what you choose to do, dependant on it being illegal or not. if you want to go down that path, then you must be willing to understand the concequences and that your actions could get you into a lot of trouble. those who enjoy taking drugs illegally without harming others in the process i have no problem with. but these days so many things have been labelled as negative, its hard enough to decide which is actually worth it. and without trying things, life gets boring. just do what you enjoy, try what you like, but i encourage it to be entirley sensible and done with everything in mind.

personally i prefer to do things legally. i have tried a few things, and have come to the desicion that they are not for me, and that i can live without them. but as for alcohol, i dont mind a dabble every now and then. and i know when to stop, which i always stand by no matter who tries to pressure me and whatnot, i make my own desicions. so yeah. drink casually, dont be getting caught by the parents when you stumble in early hours not quite sober yall! ;) haha
 
im dutch, tried most of them. nothing beats sex.

Black_Phantom said:
I think Cannabis should be legal to have/use as it's not physically addictive, helps people with illnesses etc.

Smoking tobacco and drinking alcohol is far more physically damaging, though in different ways. I think they should both be legal, but some smokers need to smoke away from non-smokers and some alcohol drinkers also need to make sure it doesn't become anyone elses problem, drink-driving etc.
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bullshit, cannabis makes your mind full of holes. its terrible for your memory for example.
 
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My mother works with people that have destroyed their lives with drugs. They are messed up to the extreme. Here's a great spoilered example (slightly graphic...don't say I didn't warn you).

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Drug creation and use is illegal for a reason. Number one: they kill brain cells. Number two: they can make you paranoid, violent, aggressive, depressed, or a combination of these and others. Number three, you're liable to harm yourself or others if you use them, as they impair your judgement and mess up your mind. Number four, the chemicals they contain can harm you physically as well as mentally (i.e. rot your teeth/give you lung and mouth cancer, and a lot of other nasty stuff).

So do I support drug use? Not in the least. Do I support legalizing drug use? Heck no.
 
to really prevent addicts from being addicted you better invest in work, health care and education.
 
I don't use drugs, feels the need to use drugs, want to use drugs but personally, don't really care about drug use.

If people want to do that kind of thing then that's fine.
 
Ok... uhh before i give my opinion, is the guy who created this thread booted out because of this thread??

I think drugs should only be used for medical purposes...
And caffeine is good (coke), drugs are bad mmmkay..... (other than caffeine)
 
He was kicked out for other behaviour. Check his posts for obvious reasons.
 
Tough one. Personally I'm dead against it, I even feel uneasy taking legal prescribed drugs. I just don't trust what it does to my body. However my girlfriend takes a few things now and then, I know she's a sensible girl, would just feel much safer if she didn't.

Who am I to say what's wrong or right?
 
On what other people have said here...

-Some of you have said that legalising all drugs will mean a jump in crime. Actually, I would see little or no change. When something is illegal, only those who are brave enough to go after the contraband item have a chance at obtaining it--and often times those are the people who also obtain money through theft, prostitution, etc. But once it's declared legal, well, the criminals who had the sole access to it before might still practice their old ways of obtaining it and/or the money for it. But the commonfolk, those who fear prosecution, will have legal access to it, and to obtain the money for it, they'll just do whatever they do to obtain money for any other purpose. (An ounce of meth, say, isn't nearly as expensive as a new computer.) Legalising a drug won't affect the way people obtain the money to pay for it.

Points I'd like to add:

-If all drugs are made legal, there should be more education and warnings about their effects present in the world. That would help prevent an increase in spreading of a drug's use. There does in fact seem to be a connection between the number of people doing a drug and the effects known about it. Back when the tobacco industry started, for example, very few people knew about the harmful side effects of tobacco, and lots and lots of people smoked it (especially in movies and such). Then people started to quit or not start when the side effects were made (sort of) clear. There will always be the percentage of people who decide to brave their way into the bad effects and focus on the good, but an increase in awareness of the side effects would certainly help the willy-nilly spread of these drugs if they all become legal.

-For all you Americans out there, keep the eighteenth amendment in mind when thinking about what will happen if a drug is outlawed. Basically that was a law which outlawed the consumption of alcohol--by anyone. The result was a decade or so of smuggling and bootlegging of alcohol, and you wouldn't believe the number of code words used by people for bars or "speakeasies", any place that serves alcohol. In other words, consumption of alcohol didn't change that dramatically. Because of that result, the amendment was repealed later on, so now of course alcohol is legal.

The point is, making a drug illegal, especially a commonly used one, will not cause a dramatic decrease in its consumption. When something's made illegal, the rate of consumption droppage depends on how badly people want it. This rate is especially low in drugs, which commonly have an addictive nature.

And--well, you can't stop any sort of illegal activity altogether, period. There are always us with the daring in our hearts, those who seek thrill in that which is secret and risky. We Criminals will always be abundant on the face of the planet, and a police force is futile in their idealistic attempt to imprison all of us. Some of us are just too clever and/or lucky for that type of conviction, and there are just too many of us. Ha!

And, well, if ranting is a crime, I'd be getting five years in prison right about now. *shuts up*
 
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