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Is alcohol a drug?

What is your opinion? And if so how does this relate to other drugs?

k and being drunk are similar

lol...

I dunoo what you mean by opinion, but alcohol IS infact a drug...

no.

Alcohol is definately a drug. It is just as destructive if not more than any other party drug.

w0000t!

Of course it's a drug. It alters your mental and physical state in the same way that other illegal drugs do, although the effects are different. Alcohol is a depressant and the only reason that it's legal is that it's been around for centuries. Look what happened when they tried to ban it in North America in the 1920s (Canada too).

I think people who drink booze but look down on other drugs based on that fact that one is legal and others are not are a bit hypocritical. Perhaps alcohol is safer to some degree but people overdose on booze all the time; we just don't hear about it as often as you would when somebody OD"s on E, coke, heroin, etc.

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Originally posted by Dj Smitty20 Of course it's a drug. It alters your mental and physical state in the same way that other illegal drugs do, although the effects are different. Alcohol is a depressant and the only reason that it's legal is that it's been around for centuries. Look what happened when they tried to ban it in North America in the 1920s (Canada too). I think people who drink booze but look down on other drugs based on that fact that one is legal and others are not are a bit hypocritical. Perhaps alcohol is safer to some degree but people overdose on booze all the time; we just don't hear about it as often as you would when somebody OD"s on E, coke, heroin, etc.

Couldnt agree more.

yes

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Originally posted by Dj Smitty20 Of course it's a drug. It alters your mental and physical state in the same way that other...

+1

it's a mistake when people just associate the word drug with illegal drugs.

when simply, 'a drug is any substance, other than food, which is taken to change the way the body or the mind functions'

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Originally posted by Dj Smitty20 Of course it's a drug.

even though i agree with you, I dont think alcohol is as addictive as E, Coke, Heroin

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Originally posted by geroin even though i agree with you, I dont think alcohol is as addictive as E, Coke, Heroin

It may not be as addictive but it is just as if not WAY more destructive than other illegal drugs. How many people die each year from drinking and driving? All the fights and vadalizing.. that's mostly drunks, with the exception of the cokehead+drunks.. that's just a bad combo.

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Originally posted by geroin even though i agree with you, I dont think alcohol is as addictive as E, Coke, Heroin

I agree. I don't understand how people get "addicted" to alcohol because frankly, after a night of drinking and dealing with the hangover, I don't want to touch a beer for at least a few days. Even getting smashed on a weekly basis is getting more difficult for me and I'm only 24!

Plus alcohol is a controlled substance for the most part and served in a controlled setting at bars/clubs. In that sense, it is "safer" but as for the moral angle, there's little difference between drinking your face off or popping a pill or two.

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Originally posted by geroin even though i agree with you, I dont think alcohol is as addictive as E, Coke, Heroin

E is not chemically additive.

If you become addicted it to, its because of a lack of self control... you always wanna experience that high, being high in situation just feels better. Of course it does, but its up to you to decide if you need to be feeling that "high"ness all the time or not.

You cannot form a dependence on E AFAIK.

I would love to see sources proving otherwise to me if I'm wrong.

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Originally posted by Dj Smitty20 I agree. I don't understand how people get "addicted" to alcohol because frankly, after a night of drinking and dealing with the hangover, I don't want to touch a beer for at least a few days. Even getting smashed on a weekly basis is getting more difficult for me and I'm only 24!

LOL, what about for those ppl that never through up or get hangovers?

If I drink white wine or beer, I'm one of those individuals. I simply have no negative side effects that would deter me from wanting to drink all the time. No negative connotations to over-drinking...

even when that's like 5-6 beers at a buddy house before the pub, and then 4 pitchers at the pub itself... LOL London Pub was a gloriously drunk night for me... and sadly, not even at the top of my list.

Re: Is alcohol a drug?

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Originally posted by Orbitus What is your opinion? And if so how does this relate to other drugs?

AHAHAHAHAHHAHA

Have you never been drunk?

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Originally posted by Jem_hadar LOL, what about for those ppl that never through up or get hangovers? If I drink white wine or beer, I'm one of those individuals. I simply have no negative side effects that would deter me from wanting to drink all the time. No negative connotations to over-drinking... even when that's like 5-6 beers at a buddy house before the pub, and then 4 pitchers at the pub itself... LOL London Pub was a gloriously drunk night for me... and sadly, not even at the top of my list.

I used to be like that kinda...i'd only throw up if I ate something "iffy" and a quick advil and some OJ in the morning and I'd be feeling great by the afternoon...and this applied to nights with 20+ beers, mixed drinks, that vile Mexican fire drink known as Tequila, etc. But now, I dont know...I always feel like absolute shit. I notice that on E too now. I dont' do it a lot but it wrecks me for at least two days in terms of fatigue, concentration, mood.

I think the only two drugs I've tried "regularly" that didn't have adverse effects the next day are weed and coke. One is good, the other is not.

booze is just as addictive but since its socially accepted, most people dont view it this way.

Think about it. How many people even in this forum who are drinkers could go to a club for a night and not drink?

Booze is legal because the government can make money from it. The government is addicted to the taxes.

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Originally posted by Jayx1 Think about it. How many people even in this forum who are drinkers could go to a club for a night and not drink?

It's not even that. You look at how people in Moscow or St. Petersburg live, and then you tell me vodka isn't fucking addictive.

lol yikes




watch the guy on the background

i say legalize and regulate everything. Half the dangers of illegal drugs are not knowing whats in it or how strong it is. Regulate, tax and legalize. Im not a user of illegal drugs but i dont think they should be illegal either.

Same thing with prostitution. Its going to happen whether we like it or not so why not make it safer and tax it?

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Originally posted by Jayx1 i say legalize and regulate everything. Half the dangers of illegal drugs are not knowing whats in it or how strong it is. Regulate, tax and legalize. Im not a user of illegal drugs but i dont think they should be illegal either. Same thing with prostitution. Its going to happen whether we like it or not so why not make it safer and tax it?

think about all the problems that would create though. We already have enough drunk drivers out there...we don't need who knows how many more fucked up on harder drugs driving and killing other people and themselves.

I'm all for decriminilisation for possession. If people want to get drugs they can, but they shouldn't be treated in the same vein as assaulters, bank robbers, etc. I have to admit I would feel better taking a E if it had been manufactured by a drug company and sold in an LCBO, for example, but that's just not a reality in the near future.

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Originally posted by Jayx1 Think about it. How many people even in this forum who are drinkers could go to a club for a night and not drink?

Blackness (Jay) and Little Komodo (Dannie) are the only that readily and ALWAYS come into mind! Like always.

Love those two.



I must say though, I dont drink at clubs anymore.

If I dont end up there drunk, I simply dont buy drinks there (only becaues I dont wanna see my money wasted on a $5+tip beer!)

So, yeah, if I havent had a chance to pre drink, then that always means Im having a completely sober night at Guv or wherever.

on the contrast Jem, I find it hard not to be "somewhat" fucked up when I go out. It sounds shallow, but it's kinda boring to be a bar or club and completely sober. Or maybe my life is boring.

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Originally posted by Sasha lol yikes watch the guy on the background

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Originally posted by Jayx1 i say legalize and regulate everything. Half the dangers of illegal drugs are not knowing whats in it or how strong it is. Regulate, tax and legalize. Im not a user of illegal drugs but i dont think they should be illegal either. Same thing with prostitution. Its going to happen whether we like it or not so why not make it safer and tax it?

Some kinda solution like that I think would be good, I think... hard to say, I obviously havent thought of all the complication and gray areas that will arise and need to be contended w/ and accounted for.

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