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| quote: | Originally posted by jdjd
I smell pure bullshit. |
Ugh, so do i. U might wanna try using mouthwash for that or something.
| quote: | | If you are telling the truth, then you don't need all that education to realize that these drugs have serious side effects, you can see that with your own eyes. |
What, like cannabis making people turn into murderers, white women sleep with black men  , mdma putting holes in ur brain, lsd making u jump out windows or cut ur dick off etc?
| quote: | | And to what gain does the government have to gain by putting out these studies, Professor? |
Sigh.. Thats a complex 1. There are just too many reasons for me to bother explaining it all. I wrote a whole 5 a4 pages essay on this a couple of years ago for my english gcse coursework in school. Racism was a big part of it in the early days. They started cracking down on different drugs to piss off/control in various ways different cultures. Cannabis for the mexicans and black jazz musicians (they said cannabis influenced this 'evil jazz music'), cocaine for the asians flooding the workplace (iirc, its been a while since i went over all this) etc. It just got progressivly worse from there. Do a google search for harry anslinger (theres PLENTY of info on that wanker) and reefer madness.
More recently, reasons include not wanting to 'rock the boat' for, or in some cases put out of business pharmaceutical companies, tobacco and alcohol companies (budweiser apparently 'donate' a lot of money towards the war on (some) drugs), textile companies, paper companies etc. People would lose a LOT of money if legalisation happened, because illegal drugs could replace so many things and do their jobs even better. But the main reasons, like i said earlier, are political. Because so many people now are so convinced by the bs, its not exactly easy for any government to turn round and say to the public that theyve been lied to for so long. Because of the huge amount of this bs, and how long its been going on, they know how many people wouldnt believe them, just like u dont believe me, and they would lose many votes. They would lose global support basically. And that means from companies, countries, other parties and governments, organisations etc. So it would be political suicide.
| quote: | | Only reason I can think of is that these drugs cost them money policing them, and that they reduce the country's quality-of-life. But that just implies what you are denying, the seriously negative health effects. |
These effects are usually greatly exaggerated, for the above reasons. I can tell u that u take more risks going about ur normal daily life than almost all drug users do taking drugs.
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