Drugs

[Hybrid Soldier]

I have noticed some of you on here are greatly opposed to drugs, and I am wondering why that is?

 

Honestly, if you are responsible with them, they cause little to no harm, and I am quite living proof of that, me being one of the smartest kids in my grade, as stated by more than one of my teachers.

 

Honestly, I want to hear what alla yall have to say.

[NoEnd]

*I have done drugs before but i regret it.

You have no reason to do drugs, even if your life sucks. If your pressured to use drugs use your head. If you do use them responsibly you'll find your self RELYING on them. Maybe this is different for some people, then lucky for you.. i guess. In my opinion sooner or later you'll find yourself addicted. To sum up my blabbering it's just to say

 

what's the point?

[Hybrid Soldier]

Point: I dunno, fun, relief, whatever, never quite thought about it.

 

Addiction is not inevitable, honestly, because although I enjoy them, I do not take them often at all, Vicodin is my most common use, and thats only like every other week, and then is weed, which is like once or twice a month. There arenmt really other things I do, but on occasion I will.

 

And Yeah, I drink, and a bit more actively than drugs.

[stupidsoul1]

Everything is bad if not used in moderation.

 

I am not opposed to drugs, but observing the people i love their most abused drug would be alcohol. Really i just don't want to live my life as "Get shit faced every other saturday"

 

Watching them drink to the point of unconciousness or sheer studpidity makes me not want to drink..watching them shit faced on drugs makes me not want to take drugs.

 

So long story short i am not opposed, i just don't do that kind of stuff.

[Lyson]

I am not opposed to drugs, they can be controlled if the user is responsible, although thats a terrible oxymoron to say that a drug user can be responsible about it. There is a drug that i do that really isnt excepted well in society, but i'm not an addict. so you arnt alone.

[allieking]

i've only ever smoked weed, but i did it too much and ended up nearly choking to death in my sleep. drugs are dangerous, thats why they are illegal.

[XrockinfreakX]

My friend used to do drugs like two years ago. He spent $2,000 on all the drugs he baught. Im suprised he quit, but I guess it depends if the person has enough self control to fight the addiction. My other friend also started doing drugs, when I have parties he cant have fun without smoking weed or huffing some kind of stuff. I guess thats why I dont do drugs, I dont really want to end up like them.

[Friðbjörn]

Point: I dunno, fun, relief, whatever, never quite thought about it.

 

Addiction is not inevitable, honestly, because although I enjoy them, I do not take them often at all, Vicodin is my most common use, and thats only like every other week, and then is weed, which is like once or twice a month. There arenmt really other things I do, but on occasion I will.

 

And Yeah, I drink, and a bit more actively than drugs.

I'd really like people that say they're not addicted, to try and do no drugs at all for a month, or at least half a month, and then talk about addiction.

I'm not necessarily pointing this directly at you Hy, but I'd just like someone who talks of it to try it.

 

Also, I don't have any scientific proof behind me in this, but I would think it is with drugs as it is with alchohol (yeah also those "mild" drugs people call harmless), that using them as a teenager damages your brain, and stops you from growing and maturing properly. Like, it harms you, not little, to drink when you're not fully grown. It's not perfectly safe to drink until you've taken out all your maturity and growth, and for men for example, that's when you're like 20 years old.

 

 

 

On drugs in general, well some people say certain drugs don't harm you, some people say they do. I'm not about to take any chances on that one.

However, I'm not really against legalizing some drugs like marijuana or something. If those drugs do harm, then I don't really give a shit if people want to ruin their lives. I'm not doing it, but they can if they want. Unless of course that the drugs cause so much harm it starts affecting stuff like economy. Then I'll mind.

[Stenners]

The ironey is Alcahol is one of the most damaging drugs, in its most potent form only one drug is more deadly.... heroin.

 

The problem is that drugs and drug minimlisation is being handled in totally the wrong way, prohibition is not the way forward and its in fact a step back. Modern example? When the USA prohbited alcahol this led to many things.

 

- The growth in wealth of the Mafia and other organised gangs

- People being blinded and poisoned by tainted alcahol

 

Now take massive note of the 2nd one as the same applies to drugs nowadays, most people that get harmed by drugs are the ones that have baught laced merchanidse. I'm sure many of you have heard that officialy in its use since the dark ages Marijouna has never directly killed anyone, yet people have died smoking hash.

WRONG they werent smoking Hash they were smoking what is commonly known as 'Soap Bar'. A soap bar is a fake hash block which is made up from little or no hash and is compiled mainly of solvents, dirt, paink killers and so on just so the dealer saves money, people die, get addicted and so on. So theres my point its happend with all sorts of pills what may of been classed as a death from 'Coke' may be true in ways but it may of been laced with something worse.

It's not just lacing to save money the is also lacing to make money in the long run drugs such as Mushrooms, Marijouna, E and Speed arent physically addictive but the dealer puts in addictive agents to get them hooked on their stuff so they get their custom in the future. If they were legalised (Class B and C) to a Class D state drug, drug use may go up (slightly) but drug related deaths should go down. As should street crime and tax intake would go up.

 

My Opinion: Everyone knows by now I do do some drugs (mainly class D) but I dont abuse them, I know when enough is enough and I follow warnings strictly! At the end of the day im safer on Marijouna, BZP and so on compared to Alcahol as they dont make you loose total self control......

[LPGotLinkinPark]

I'm for drugs, but I don't use them often at all. I'm kinda cautious when it comes to addictive subtances, because I have an addictive personality & family history.

 

But I agree Stenners mostly, so no need to restate it.

 

It's people that do dumb stuff that give drugs a bad name. & people use them to just a relaxation feeling. To me, moderate drugs are good if they aren't laced with really bad stuff (like Stenners said) & are used with responsibility.

[Stenners]

i've only ever smoked weed' date=' but i did it too much and ended up nearly choking to death in my sleep. drugs are dangerous, thats why they are illegal.[/quote']

 

All you have to do is go to the spice rack or sink draw to find more dangerous substances..... e.g. Nutmeg

[allieking]

why is nutmeg dangerous?

 

explain please matt as i am a bit of a bimbo

[Stenners]

Nutmeg is poisonus and people do try to abuse it. The lethal dosage is like 4tsps or something, eat that much and u become violently sick and can potentially die.

[Hybrid Soldier]

I'd really like people that say they're not addicted, to try and do no drugs at all for a month, or at least half a month, and then talk about addiction.

I'm not necessarily pointing this directly at you Hy, but I'd just like someone who talks of it to try it.

I was sboer for over a month a litle while back.

[azemkamikaze03]

I sold weed for like two months. Lit up twice but to me it was nothing special and I mean I really didn't like the idea of wasting money on it when it was anything cool. I did drink but went clean ,'cept for the ocassional Smirnoff, I'm actually pretty much a better person now than I was when I was involved in all that stuff.

[Hybrid Soldier]

WHen I was sober for that month, nothing actually changed, class participation, grades, how I acted, honestly everything was the same, but that could just be me.

[allieking]

well i don't drink or take drugs. i do however smoke but am in the middle of quitting. i think drink is worse than drugs because its not illegal to drink and its easier to get hold of. my mum is an alcoholic and has been for the last 17 years, she wont even admit she has a problem so there is no way shes gonna stop, all i can do is be there for her when she needs me.

[azemkamikaze03]

Well I mean lets put it like this. When you go to school it's kind of obvious who the potheads are in class. And when you recognize them it's not exactly for good traits. I mean when you think about it what good does marijuana really do? It's a gateway drug. (I should know considering that was my job.) See I mean sure marijuana isn't life threating, but I man alot of people tend to get bored of weed after a while. So they come to me asking for something better. Thats when I say go to Durrel if you want some crack, then once they get hooked on that they still want something new. That's when they drive over to philly and get crank. See, correct me if I'm wrong but like 3 blunts are equal to like 1 cigerrete when it comes to tar in the lungs. So I mean that's a good thing, but if we were to legalize weed it would be catastrophic. People would be driving stoned and from what I've seen last thing I wanna do is drive with someone who's stoned. It's just as bad as dwi.

 

We don't ban beer and cigs becuase well you know what happened last time we banned beer. And as for ciggerretes there growing more unpopular as time goes on. Im sure not to far in the future cigerrettes wont be a problem becuase the mass majority of people will stop buying them and then they can ban it. You cant just put a ban on something everyone is doing. It's in violation of the people's pursuit of happiness. Weed, Dope, Meth, ect. are illegal becuase the majority of Americans don't do it. If there was a majority I guarentee you it would not be illegal. They just wouldn't do it.

[Hybrid Soldier]

Well, see, with me ive never really experienced the "gateway" deal or any addiction, I honestly only know a few peopel who have, so that atrgument doesnt really make sense to me.

 

And also, about being able to tellw hos a pothead, you can point out the obviosu ones, but there are quite a few noone would ever be able to tell smoked, most people consider me one of them actually.

[azemkamikaze03]

According toWhite House Drug Policy 1.6%[roughly 66 people(not good at math)]of people who have been involved in illicit drug use in past year have been arrested for larcdeny or theft. .9 for burgulary and aggrevated assult. 2.0 for some sort of assualt. All this is based under 4,147 cases. Not bad. Right? Right.

 

But that's not the case. Sure it wont provoke anyone to start crimes so you can't say it's to much of a danger to anyone else so why are they worrying?

 

Approximately 10.4% of 8th graders, 20.8% of 10th graders, and 25.4% of 12th graders reported past month use of an illicit drug. The drug most frequently used was marijuana, with 21.5% of seniors reporting past month use

 

It's ashame that each year the percentage of younger kids who smoke marijuana goes up. What kind of world do we live in when little kids light up blunts. It's insane. Seriously it is. Sure you have 1 or 2 weed smokers who are perfectly normal but the mass majority of weed smokers aren't exactly normally there. I mean seriously you can lie to yourself all you want and say there's no diffrence from potheads and people who are clean but I mean teachers, principals, and students in general will tell you there is a major diffrence. Grades seem to suffer more.

 

* Amphetamines/methamphetamine: Irritability, insomnia, convulsions, tremors, anxiety, paranoia, aggression, violent behavior, stroke, psychosis resembling schizophrenia, cardiovascular collapse, and death.

* Inhalants: Memory loss, learning problems, increased heart rate, distorted perception of reality and spatial relations, lethargy, nausea/vomiting, slurred speech, loss of motor coordination, wheezing, organ and muscle damage, sudden sniffing death syndrome which can cause heart failure, and withdrawal symptoms which can include grand mal seizures.

* Marijuana: Impaired memory, anxiety, panic attacks, symptoms of chronic bronchitis, daily coughs and phlegm, more frequent chest colds, and abnormal functioning of lung tissue injured or destroyed by marijuana smoke.

* MDMA (ecstasy): Depression, anxiety, paranoia, muscle tension, teeth clenching, tremors, increased heart rate and blood pressure, dehydration, hyperthermia, brain damage, and death.

The things I bolded are very common.

 

 

Alot of people say oh that doesn't happen to me. It's a pshycological thing most of the time. Alot of people don't like to admit they don't have a problem. Kind of like how people don't like going to the doctor becuase they are afriad of what they might find out. Also alot of people say oh I've never wittnessed it happened. Or some bull crap like that. Don't believe that. First off they don't live with their friends. Second off chances are they are lieing and just say things to make drugs look positive. I got out of seeling weed becuase it's just wrong. Alchohol is wrong and so is smoking. But we do it anyways. But pretending it has no negative effect is just stupid.

[Hybrid Soldier]

Are you also aware that at the right ammount it can stimulate your brain and actually could improve functionality?

[Stenners]

- 1 Blunt has 5 times more carsonagenics then a cigarette however the active ingrediant THC kills cancer cells and doesnt stop mutated cells from self destructing to prevent the spread like nicotiene does.

 

- 1 in 3 people have tried marijouna by the age of 18 and 1 in 5 do it often (UK)

 

- 400,000 Americans die from Cigarette related diseases, 150,000 from Alcahol ones a year but no one has ever died from Marijouna since it was first cultivated more then 10,000 years ago.

 

- Alcahol may be easier to get as of age but before your 18/21 pot is alot easier to obtain as are other substances such as cocaine & e.

 

- Anything in moderation is good for you

 

- Anything abused is bad for you! You can OD on Alcahol, Cigarettes,Banana's, apple's, tunes, water but it is impossible to OD on Marijouna (worked out a 4,000 joints within an hour).

 

- Drugs play a vital part in the national ecconomy, but by the same token illegal drugs play a vital part in gang and terrorist ecconomies.

 

- Marijouna and Shrooms are totally natural and have little side effects and do less harm then Alcahol. Taken in right amounts they stimulate the brain allowing people to be more creative as well as more functional, however by the same token it also makes most people a complete ditz for an hour or 2

 

Hope that clears some things up for you, I learnt all of this in school when they talked bout Classified drugs and I also know from experiance and so on.

[Phranka]

I hate drugs ._.'

 

hehe Holland.. ah you can do what you want, I don't need it..

[Stenners]

Holland also has radicolusy strong beer at like 15% when the highest u can really get in the UK is 5.5%

[azemkamikaze03]

One study has indicated that a user’s risk of heart attack more than quadruples in the first hour after smoking marijuana. The researchers suggest that such an effect might occur from marijuana’s effects on blood pressure and heart rate and reduced oxygen-carrying capacity of blood.

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So, lets say I smoked a blunt chances are after that I don't wanna go anywhere were their might be a thrill becuase chances are I'm going to get a heart attack. As it is alot of kids are comming down with high blood pressure. This doesn't help the case any.

 

After eating one burger in the first hour the same thing wont happen.

After eating an apple the same thing will not occur.

Listening to music while eating a bannana and sipping some water will not cuase your heart rate to quadruple.(You might go deaf or choke. Lol)

 

Sure your not going to overdose. That doesn't mean it's not going to screw you up. And yes anything of everything can be bad for you. But they are as harmful as weed. I cant remember where i read it so I can't site it to prove its

validness but it said tch gets ahold of you brain cells(specific ones) and cuases to function diffrently. There is no certain ammount that can make it function the way you want. It just depends on where and how it takes over

 

There are 3600 seconds in an hour...I believe, so I'm pretty sure either this statement is false or misleading in the way it was wrote

- Anything abused is bad for you! You can OD on Alcahol, Cigarettes,Banana's, apple's, tunes, water but it is impossible to OD on Marijouna (worked out a 4,000 joints within an hour).