Do you think governments and politicians around the world exaggerate the harmful effects of drug use?
February 13th, 2010 | by admin |Mainly cannabis but I do believe that they exaggerate or twist the facts of many drugs. Why do they not ban alcohol or tobacco if cannabis remains illegal? Alcohol and tobacco cause thousands of deaths each year but no one has ever died from smoking cannabis.
Even with other drugs such as hallucinogens, the governments make out as if they’re terrible but I believe them to be a good thing if used responsibly. We’ve all heard stories about people jumping off buildings because they thought they could fly when they were on LSD or magic mushrooms. A lot of these are lies, or not the full truth (the person probably was mixing drugs of some sort). There are a lot of people I’ve seen on certain forums who have said after using LSD they’ve come out of the trip a completely better person because they’ve realised things while tripping about life… they go on to do better in the workplace, treat people with more respect and appreciate life a whole lot better.
What do you think?
Thanks for the replies people. wildfire_22, you are exactly correct, in fact they’d be making more money if it was legal.
Also, the gateway drug is not cannabis. I believe it to be alcohol due to the availability of it. It was for me anyway I was drunk when I had my first cigarette. After that I thought smoking cigarettes was pointless, gave up after a week and began to smoke pot. I thought it was bad until I researched it. I even started to better in school. Unless it was just my imagination, but yeah, that’s just me.
Of course they couldn’t legalise all drugs but I think the natural occurring ones such as cannabis and magic mushrooms should be and some chemical ones such as LSD and Ecstasy.
If Ecstasy was legal, then professional chemists would be producing it and there wouldn’t be anywhere near as many fatalities that occur from it as there are now. You wouldn’t get some person in their underground lab who barely knows what they’re doing and mixes toxins to make it cheaper.
Nick D, I understand what you mean but you’re putting too many drugs together and labelling them all as bad.
Meth is, without a doubt, a terrible drug… same goes for Ice, Heroin and the like.
When it comes to mind opening drugs which aren’t physically addicting or damaging, I say it’s ok.
As long as it’s in moderation and the people who are taking them are responsible and it isn’t necessary but it is wise to have somebody "trip sitting" them while on LSD or any other hallucinogens.
As for ecstasy, I say, only if you’ve tested the pill and know its purity and definitely not in public unless at a rave or concert.
I have plenty of experience regarding drugs, I first smoked pot in ‘81 @ the age of 14, I initially ingested LSD the following year. I’ve most likely eaten over 5000 hits since that fateful sunday in October. I’ve also eaten peyote a few times, also mushrooms, I’ve eaten the angel’s trumpet and I am a multi format smoker(there is not much that will smoke that I am afraid 2 smoke). Most of my mind/brain still works pretty damn well. I believe the war on drugs is doomed 2 failure, primarily due 2 pot’s inclusion in the war. My reason 4 saying that is when a person hears(reads) the govt propoganda about herb and actually does some research or(heaven 4bid), tries it and realized how full of **** the govt is what is 2 stop them from not suspecting the govt from being as full of shit in regards 2 their other propoganda!
Timothy
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6 Responses to “Do you think governments and politicians around the world exaggerate the harmful effects of drug use?”
By timthehippie on Feb 13, 2010 | Reply
I have plenty of experience regarding drugs, I first smoked pot in ‘81 @ the age of 14, I initially ingested LSD the following year. I’ve most likely eaten over 5000 hits since that fateful sunday in October. I’ve also eaten peyote a few times, also mushrooms, I’ve eaten the angel’s trumpet and I am a multi format smoker(there is not much that will smoke that I am afraid 2 smoke). Most of my mind/brain still works pretty damn well. I believe the war on drugs is doomed 2 failure, primarily due 2 pot’s inclusion in the war. My reason 4 saying that is when a person hears(reads) the govt propoganda about herb and actually does some research or(heaven 4bid), tries it and realized how full of **** the govt is what is 2 stop them from not suspecting the govt from being as full of shit in regards 2 their other propoganda!
Timothy
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By nostradamus02012 on Feb 13, 2010 | Reply
over 80% of the people in prison for violent crimes were drunk when they did whatever it was that got them sent to prison.
tobacco is responsible for more deaths than almost all other diseases combined – and we SUBSIDIZE it – and in the good ole days, when we normalized reliations with countries like china the first thing we’d do is send them cigarettes.
marajuana has been proven to be no more of a gateway drug than anything else, a fact that literally all politicians casually ignore when doing the lying-to-look-tough-and-pander-to-voters thing that they all do.
marajuana should be a legal, controlled, taxed substance along the exact same lines as alcohol is – having a legal usage age, and over the limit blood content for vehicle operation.
but for some reason literally all politicians treat this almost like a religious issue and simply avoid the facts, as they have been proven or not – certain kinds of studies of the long term impacts of marajuana usage have never been done.
perhaps worst of all are these drug program that they foist onto little kids where they try to scare the crap out of them. they LIE to them, saying things like ‘one hit off a marajuana cigarette, can KILL you instantly.’ the problem with that is that eventually kids grow up and learn that they have been LIED to – makes them (us) wonder what else we’ve been lied to about.
it’s just one more completely irrational set of laws that we have on the books that make absolutely no sense at all – along with our foreign policy, trade agreements that are designed to drive manufacturing jobs overseas and the general war that the govt has been waging on the middle class for decades now.
it makes no sense – what else is new…
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By Jim R on Feb 13, 2010 | Reply
Absolutely. The early scare campaign against marijuana, for example, was the result of WR Hearst wanting to protect his logging interests from the competition of hemp-based paper.
Now businesses, who of course support politicians with campaign funds, are finding it economically advantageous for US prisons to have large numbers of non-violent prisoners, as it gives them a supply of cheap labor.
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By trishypatrick on Feb 13, 2010 | Reply
I think they make marijuana out to be harmful when it sin’t. But as for the hard stuff, lsd, crack, ect… They have the right idea. That stuff is harmful. I feel though that you should only go to jail if caught selling hard drugs not using or in small possesion. Treat drug addiction like a sickness, send drug addicts to rehab. In jail they can score drugs and not get better.
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By wildfire_22 on Feb 13, 2010 | Reply
I know what you mean.. I completely agree… The government …I feel.. is always trying to say drugs are bad.. pot is a gate way drug. The government keeps it illegal because of all the money they make off of the drug busts. Although don’t u think they would make more from just legalising it and taxing it?? oh well.. Anyways… yea I thinks its a bunch of bs
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By nick d on Feb 13, 2010 | Reply
I agree that cannabis is in general harmless as long as you don’t get behind the wheel after smoking.But any other drug stronger than that is a different story.But I’ll bet that deep down,those people you mentioned felt completly stupid when they realized how they acted while high on acid and decided it was finally time to straighten up when they came back to reality.Drugs make no one a better person,my family was torn apart twice because of meth.I put up with meth heads everyday at work.Due to their use of meth they end up working faster and getting more done,but they also don’t last to long where I work at either.After a while they get fired after too much absentees or after doing something stupid on the job.They fire them and replace them with another meth head.The few people l work with who are like me and choose not to do drugs are always getting an ass chewing because we have a hard time keeping up with a bunch of tweekers.So basically we get punished for not doing drugs.Thats what I have against druggies.It seems like we live in a society that rewards drug use,and punishes those who don’t use them.Do you think thats right? I grew up in a drug infested neighborhood and have seen first hand what this stuff can do.This is coming from my own mouth and not government propaganda.For every person who’s head is still screwed on straight after a few years of using drugs,I can hand pick all by myself about ten people who’s lives are a living hell do to their own drug use.The only one’s I’ve herd say drugs aren’t so bad are druggies,and they only say it because they don’t want to admit that they are hooked and they also don’t want to stop.And that goes with any drug not just meth.I don’t smoke pot but I will at least say that pot isn’t that bad because pot heads don’t cause a whole lot of trouble.I’ve never even seen two pot heads get in a fist fight.I thought I might at least say that much before everyone starts to say a bunch of crap.But anything stronger than pot is not exactly a menace to society,but the people who do these drugs are.Drug attics will steal,rob and in a lot of cases,kill in order to get drug money. These people are nothing more than a leech on this country,and contribute absolutely nothing to society.
With all due respect.Ecstasy is made by profesionals.It is smuggled in from Amsterdam where it is already legal.Almost every death caused by ecstasy was caused by a properly mixed drug.But I can care less how much deaths are caused by overdosing,they end up killing themselves fine its their life not mine.It just pisses me off that the people who don’t use drugs are basically pissed on.Like the the problem I have to put up with at work.
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