Deadly drugs

[Grayhead]

http://www.wect.com/story/35697793/deadly-street-drug-a-potential-weapon-of-terror

I have a brother who is a heroin and meth addict. I have been around him several times while he is high and hallucinating. Painful sight. I partied pretty hard back in the 90s. But that's all I did, party. Watching my brother and quiet a few of my friends stoop to this level is painful. Hard to even count the number of friends and people I know who are dead today because of drug and alcohol abuse. I wish there was an easy solution to this.
Just about every family in this country is affected in some way. To me, this is a prime example of why legalizing drugs is not a correct mindset.

Then we look at prescription medication and see basically the same thing happening. Drugs suck!!!

 

[coryfly]

I don't see a relationship between taking heroin and meth and legalizing marijuana. But yeah, drugs suck.

 

[Grayhead]

I don't see a relationship between taking heroin and meth and legalizing marijuana. But yeah, drugs suck.

The issue to me is some want restrictions lifted on all controlled substances. POT to me is a different story

 

[heelbent]

I never equated pot with "deadly drugs" and really don't believe anyone else does, yet the govt. has it classified as Schedule 1.

Heroin and cocaine are Schedule 2. That means the govt. considers pot as more dangerous and makes heroine and cocaine "gateway" drugs to marijuana.

Wrap your heads around that.

 

[Grayhead]

I never equated pot with "deadly drugs" and really don't believe anyone else does, yet the govt. has it classified as Schedule 1.

Heroin and cocaine are Schedule 2. That means the govt. considers pot as more dangerous and makes heroine and cocaine "gateway" drugs to marijuana.

Wrap your heads around that.

You said government. Enough said

 

[strummingram]

The US Government, and its fun flunkies, have created and perpetuated this "War On Drugs" for almost a century now, if you include alcohol. I was watching the History Channels recent documentary on it and I was floored. I was shocked that it ever made it to air. The CIA and US Government are the biggest drug pushers and peddlers and producers in the history of the human race. It's fvcking disgusting. And, it's not Republicans OR Democrats either. Elephants and donkeys are both drug mules.

If it were left up to me, I would legalize EVERY "drug" instantly. It's ludicrous to me to try and protect people from "substances." Most of us don't know anything except "illegal drugs" in one context or another. So, it's impossible to think beyond it... nearly. Prohibition does not work. However, the crime and the profits from the drug industry would be virtually eliminated if they were no longer illegal. You rarely hear of a million dollar beer bust. That's because you can get beer at the grocery store. You can get heroin, too, if there's pharmacy in the store! You just need the Rx.

People always have, and always will "get high." If you want less crime over it, then remove the profit incentive. Once there's no money to be made, it's much less costly to all of us. Will people still use them and still waste their lives? Yes, absolutely. Smoking cigarettes kills you... slowly, very, very, slowly. But, you'll die, eventually. No one presses charges against 7-11 or Philip Morris when the person is a ball of tumors.

Legalize them.

 

[uncboy10]

Its despicable that scumbags like Jeff Sessions are currently trying to link the opiod crisis with marijuana legalization when there is a strong inverse relationship between marijuana legalization and opiod drug abuse. That's a dangerously ignorant position for the attorney general to take. Republicans need to take a long look in the mirror on that one.

Cannabis isn't just the safest recreational drug known to man, its use is well demonstrated to be an effective treatment for addiction to harder drugs like meth and opiates.

Drug prohibition does absolutely nothing to prevent drug abuse. The psychology of punishment has been studied extensively. You can never catch someone even a majority of the time when they use drugs, so the laws do not work to discourage drug use. Punishment has to be consistent to be effective.

Locking people in jail does not help them, it just gives them a criminal record that only perpetuates their addiction problems.

 

[strummingram]

Locking people in jail does not help them, it just gives them a criminal record that only perpetuates their addiction problems.

And, it gives them more access to the harmful drugs, from what I've seen and read.

 

[uncboy10]

And, it gives them more access to the harmful drugs, from what I've seen and read.

It seems logical to me that if you had to sit in a concrete box for 20+ hours a day, then heroin probably would become a lot more appealing. Both physically and mentally. Jail is its own form of torture. Torture is painful. Opiates mediate pain better than any other chemicals known to man.

And addiction isn't really a problem if you're already stuck in jail. You're not going anywhere regardless. Might as well get high. I have no idea how prohibition makes a lick of sense to anybody with a functioning brain.