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Drugs (trippin' on NRG) (pg. 3)
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| Thor |
I think that what society today really needs is honesty about drugs from the governments. Its amazing the more reading I do about all kinds of drugs, the more I realize how much D.A.R.E and other such organizations use scare tactics and huge exagerations to scare kids away from drugs.
The reason weed is sometimes called a gate way drug is because people who believe in the propoganda that weed is so terrible for you, they try it and find out its no big deal and then they start to doubt all the things they've been told about all drugs..
Legalization is something that will happen, its probably not going to happen in my life time, but I'm quite confident that it will. Of course there will always be problems with drugs whether they are legal or not, but the benefits of legalization outways the benefits of the way things are today...
I regards to just the USA's war on drugs, if they legalized drugs, stopped spending all those billions on the drug war.. It would cut down on 40% of court cases in america, see a 30-40% decrease in the prison population, reduce crime drastcily, and most importantly the government would make loads of money selling safe and controlled substances.
Its best compared to legalizing prostitution, its taking it off the streets and cleaning it up, while making things as safe as possible. People always fear that legalization will make the whole country addicts, well like I said before there are cases of countries legalizing certain drugs, and in all those cases its only a small increase in useage of those drugs, not a country that all of a sudden becomes drug addicts.
Legalization won't be easy, but ************ its the best solution available, and the quicker we stop wasting lives, money, resources on the drug war, the better off we will all be. |
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| KaNoS |
It always sound so stupid to me, when people says weed is the gate way drug, when its almost clearly that the legal drugs are the gate way ones. Coffee, alcohol, and nicotin.
But even if drugs are legalized (which I hope), i will support anti-drug campaings, not everyone can resist not taking drugs for about 3 weeks, so that your body has time to recover.
Education, is the only way to solve all the problems that affect our society now days. |
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| Spad |
| quote: | Originally posted by Thor
I think that what society today really needs is honesty about drugs from the governments. Its amazing the more reading I do about all kinds of drugs, the more I realize how much D.A.R.E and other such organizations use scare tactics and huge exagerations to scare kids away from drugs.
The reason weed is sometimes called a gate way drug is because people who believe in the propoganda that weed is so terrible for you, they try it and find out its no big deal and then they start to doubt all the things they've been told about all drugs..
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Yeah you're spot on there. I don't see the point of scare tactics anyway. We all know full well that drugs can and do up peoples lives, so why not show kids the truth? Coz the truth is bad enough in a lot of cases. The correct information might just bring respect as well.
As far as legalisation goes, our country (UK) has a big debate going on at the moment with regards to decrminalisation of cannabis. What seems plain to me is that our Prime Minister is obviously going with public opinion on whether or not to allow this bill through commons (our parlimnetary system). Regardless of what we think, the majority of people are strongly against changes in drug laws (in the UK anyway) and I think this is reflected in the attitude of the government. I'm sure that if the majority of voters was in support of such changes they'd be given much more serious consideration. |
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| u4ea:[soulstar] |
| quote: | Originally posted by Thor
Sorry to totally disagree with you :D .... But yes I do think there is a BIG difference between someone who smokes weed and someone who does heroin.. Its 2 vastly different things and there should be no doubt that they should never be thought of in the same light.
My story, well I never did any drugs until I was 23 yrs old. In fact I was a very anti-drug person for my pre-23 years. I drank, but I never had any interest in drugs. In fact I was so smug, telling my friends how dumb they were for doing drugs, that "you don't need drugs to enjoy life" etc.... How wrong I was, my first experience with any drugs was, you guessed it Mushrooms.
I still remember that first trip, it was a comfortable nice body buzz and loads of laughter.. I kept saying to my best friend "I never knew, I never knew!"... I felt like someone had opened a door that I always assumed would be better not opening..
Now I not only encourage friends to educate themselves and use drugs safely, but I run a website dedicated to the sacred mushroom.
I strongly believe in legalizing of all drugs. I'll tell you why. If all drugs are legal and controlled, we remove so much crime. The hard drugs that are the cause of so much anti-drug commercials would now be controlled by doctors so that people with addictions have more hope of getting help. All drugs would be pure and as safe as possible. The government would make billions, the cartels would crumble and lose much of their power/wealth.. Prisons would have lots of open space since we are now letting out those "horrible" weed growers.. ;)
For those of you who choose not to do drugs, thats cool.. But realize that I was one of you once, I was 100% against drugs and people who used them.... But when I tried mushrooms I truly feel that its made me a better person.. The saying opening the doors of perception couldn't be more true in regards to mushrooms. I wish only that anti-drug proponents could open their minds and see what good can come from expanding your mind. |
How Satori.. But not everybody who ventures into the realms of mind-altering drugs is as fortunate as you. Once the right door is opened, there is no going back. Once the flower is unclasped, it will never close again. Once the journey has begun, transformation is inevitable. Then the wisdom of silence becomes more deeper. Wonders of this world only our hearts begin to hear. Our Zen becomes our greatest friend and ascension into Twilight nears.. |
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| u4ea:[soulstar] |
| quote: | Originally posted by Thor
I think that what society today really needs is honesty about drugs from the governments. Its amazing the more reading I do about all kinds of drugs, the more I realize how much D.A.R.E and other such organizations use scare tactics and huge exagerations to scare kids away from drugs.
The reason weed is sometimes called a gate way drug is because people who believe in the propoganda that weed is so terrible for you, they try it and find out its no big deal and then they start to doubt all the things they've been told about all drugs..
Legalization is something that will happen, its probably not going to happen in my life time, but I'm quite confident that it will. Of course there will always be problems with drugs whether they are legal or not, but the benefits of legalization outways the benefits of the way things are today...
I regards to just the USA's war on drugs, if they legalized drugs, stopped spending all those billions on the drug war.. It would cut down on 40% of court cases in america, see a 30-40% decrease in the prison population, reduce crime drastcily, and most importantly the government would make loads of money selling safe and controlled substances.
Its best compared to legalizing prostitution, its taking it off the streets and cleaning it up, while making things as safe as possible. People always fear that legalization will make the whole country addicts, well like I said before there are cases of countries legalizing certain drugs, and in all those cases its only a small increase in useage of those drugs, not a country that all of a sudden becomes drug addicts.
Legalization won't be easy, but ************ its the best solution available, and the quicker we stop wasting lives, money, resources on the drug war, the better off we will all be. |
Thor, these are great ideals but realized the reality of how entrenched the systems for drug enforcement are in the states. It will be for a very long long time before amendments and reconstruction of the systems in placed for fighting drug crimes will be possible.
If the majority of illicit drugs became legalized, the DEA and other drug enforcing entities would take the largest losses. DEA and DEA affliliated entities will not allow this to happen. This is a business, an operation[s] determined to stay alive. The arm of this business extends its persuasion from all government levels, the justice system, to the drug business. |
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| Thor |
I agree with that soulstar, look at my previous post, I said it won't happen in my lifetime :D
The people who lose the most from legalization: Cartels, Criminals, DEA, Mafia, and alcohol/tobacco companies :)
Thats the interesting thing, shows how crazy this world is right now. |
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| hypronix |
| how would U like it 2 know there R GOVERMENTS that will suffer from legalization? third-world-countries get many of their fundings from the implication of the Guv. in this kind of . |
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| u4ea:[soulstar] |
| quote: | Originally posted by Thor
I agree with that soulstar, look at my previous post, I said it won't happen in my lifetime :D
The people who lose the most from legalization: Cartels, Criminals, DEA, Mafia, and alcohol/tobacco companies :)
Thats the interesting thing, shows how crazy this world is right now. |
Oh yeah, right.. I'm friggin half asleep at the keyboards. :toothless
It happens on all levels of society, from an individual to corporations: money, status, control, and power.
It creates the ultimate blindfold. Thats how crazy how world is. |
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| I see that you said that NRG is a drug it not it a herbase that give's you lot's of Energy in your system to biuld up your Stamina (Nature's Raw Guarana).:D |
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| hypronix |
guys.. is this another one?
NRG is a.. way to write energy.. look my sig.. duh... (I think..no, let's give him another chance!) |
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| Izzy |
| i heard from my economics teacher the illegal drugs is the biggest buisness in the world and if it were to seize to exsist, only for one day it would crumble every market in the world |
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| Thor |
Your economics teacher is a little out of touch then.. He's not wrong in what he says, illegal drugs are a HUGE business. But if it becomes legal, the money moves from illegal hands to legal government hands...
The money being made from drugs doesn't just dissapear! Of course it changes hands, so what he says is rather silly... If yeah we just tommorow made it legal without preparing for it, it could cause lots of problems.. But any legalization has to be planned and executed carefully and definately over a period of time...
Its amazing an economics teacher would say that, but again its not uncommon for intelligent people to make stupid statements about illegal drugs...
Theres no doubt legalization would have its share of problems, but don't forget its much better than the current state of affairs. |
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