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masspan
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does 'legal' imply 'safe'?
#22095556 - 08/15/15 04:41 PM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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in the context of drugs in particular, when you hear or are told something is 'legal', do you automatically feel or believe it must also be 'safe'? not after researching or informing yourself about it, but your first reaction
how do you think the general populace feels about this?
my initial reaction is that legal implies safe to most people, even when clearly that is not the case
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Re: does 'legal' imply 'safe'? [Re: masspan]
#22095582 - 08/15/15 04:50 PM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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Not my first reaction at all, but the general populous probably does. Mostly due to being uneducated, I think.
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Re: does 'legal' imply 'safe'? [Re: masspan]
#22095601 - 08/15/15 04:55 PM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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The only people who assume something that is currently legal is also inherently safe, are dumb asses who shouldn't be using chemicals to begin with. Responsible drug is use is first and foremost understanding the risks and the nature of what you're using.
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Re: does 'legal' imply 'safe'? [Re: Shroomslip] 1
#22095612 - 08/15/15 04:57 PM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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no. only an idiot would think that
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Re: does 'legal' imply 'safe'? [Re: Adolin]
#22095632 - 08/15/15 05:03 PM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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No Case study Suger they dont give a fick if the poison is slow or responsibility can be diluted
Oxyconton got the company sued, but they still made billions getting old cunts on the stuff.
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Re: does 'legal' imply 'safe'? [Re: Adolin]
#22095638 - 08/15/15 05:04 PM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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No.
Alcohol is legal, and people go to the emergency room for alcohol poisoning everyday. But I'm guessing the general populace believes something like that to be true.
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Quote:
specialpeopleclub said: No Case study Suger they dont give a fick if the poison is slow or responsibility can be diluted
Did consuming *sugar impair your ability to spell sugar correctly?
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Re: does 'legal' imply 'safe'? [Re: California] 1
#22095666 - 08/15/15 05:09 PM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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They poisoned my spelling
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Re: does 'legal' imply 'safe'? [Re: masspan]
#22095669 - 08/15/15 05:10 PM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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Of course not. With pharmaceutical drugs sold through legal channels I do generally assume consistency though. Fuckups or tampering can happen but they're rare.
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Re: does 'legal' imply 'safe'? [Re: California]
#22095680 - 08/15/15 05:12 PM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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She may be legal, but she aint safe
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Re: does 'legal' imply 'safe'? [Re: masspan]
#22095689 - 08/15/15 05:14 PM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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I assume the opposite. When I know something is legal, it raises a red flag for me. The government bans the safe, fun drugs.
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No way. Parafluoro-3-methylfentanyl is legal and for your average Joe extremely hard not to kill yourself with.
Legal drug = They Don't Know This Substance Yet.
Legal highs used to be crap. All "legal bud"used to be absolutely worthless, but now with the cannabinoids they knock your socks off
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I would say it does.
Look at alcohol. Ive been in hell wds on heroin. But alcohol wds are far worse. Put me in the hospital worse. But it's the legal and cheap one I can walk 2 minutes and grab an 8 percent beer for 1.40.
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Re: does 'legal' imply 'safe'? [Re: masspan]
#22095732 - 08/15/15 05:24 PM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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Of course legal does not imply safe and anyone who thinks it does is a fool.
Cigarettes are legal.
Enough said
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Re: does 'legal' imply 'safe'? [Re: Moonshoe]
#22095757 - 08/15/15 05:32 PM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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I consider tobacco safe, it's just extremely easy to be abused. Even moreso than alcohol.
I only smoke tobacco in ceremony though.
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Re: does 'legal' imply 'safe'? [Re: Achillita]
#22095766 - 08/15/15 05:35 PM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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Nothing is safe. That shit is an illusion from start to finish. The reaper is coming for ya
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Re: does 'legal' imply 'safe'? [Re: Achillita]
#22095778 - 08/15/15 05:39 PM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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Anything with a high risk and strong link to cancers and other horrible disease (COPD for instance) is not safe. It's the opposite of safe. Not even natural tobacco is known to be free of this risk. Natural tobacco may be safer than the additive filled shit big companies spew out, but it's not without risk.
It's just some illusion of safety because if you smoke 20 cigarettes non stop you don't die. And no one (although I'm sure it's had to of been said to happen once or twice by some freak occurrence) ever just drops dead from their first time using. Most of the danger is all long term, so it "feels" safer.
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Re: does 'legal' imply 'safe'? [Re: Shroomslip]
#22095999 - 08/15/15 06:43 PM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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i really appreciate everyone's responses, maybe i should have asked a better question
clearly everyone 'here' has put more thought into what they do and don't put into their bodies/minds than the average person, so i would expect everyone 'here' to reject the idea that legal=safe, from their own or others experience
and it's not really a question about potential for abuse or future consequences either, as has already been pointed out, sugar, tobacco, alcohol, etc. all legal, all 'safe' in the minds of the many
this is the crux of my question
when a govt. or authority says 'legal', in the minds of the masses, does this equal 'safe'?
i think it does personally, just curious why cultures work this way
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Re: does 'legal' imply 'safe'? [Re: masspan]
#22096017 - 08/15/15 06:48 PM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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"Legal" does not imply safe, but in general, I think if a drug is approved, it implies a minimum level of characterization. This includes a characterization of harms and benefits.
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