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Ravus
Not an EggshellWalker


Registered: 07/18/03
Posts: 7,991
Loc: Cave of the Patriarchs
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Re: Is there hope for the psychedelic /drug culture? [Re: valour]
#2520421 - 04/02/04 11:31 PM (19 years, 9 months ago) |
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The key is, would it make a difference if it's legal or not? Though only a small percentage of people do addictive drugs, if America has a population of 300-350 million, it ends up be millions of people who do these drugs and have to get them illegally. If they were legal, the same people would do the drugs (maybe less, as reports in the Netherlands have shown with softer drugs,) yet they'd get product that wasn't cut to shit with unknown substances that they then inject into their veins, and could get needles to stop the spread of blood transmittable diseases like AIDS. Also, with drugs such as cocaine, it's possible to make it less harmful if it's legal, such as making coca tea instead of sniffing it, or if you're sniffing it dilute it in a nasal spray type formula as to control the dosage better and be less harmful to the nostrils. In the end, what right does the government have to cost us hundreds of billions of dollars in the longrun to fight substances that people put into their own bodies, harming no one else... especially when they're only making it worse?
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kgro
hallucinator

Registered: 11/04/03
Posts: 279
Last seen: 19 years, 4 months
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Re: Is there hope for the psychedelic /drug culture? [Re: bioTek]
#2520535 - 04/03/04 12:26 AM (19 years, 9 months ago) |
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bioTek said: just think how much easier it would be for young children to get drugs and screw their lives up by not focusing on life's real responsibilites, not to mention all the "would be" good people on the streets strung out on crack or herion when they should've made better decisions and had a better life....
When I was a young child, I could get weed or meth very easily. Getting alcohol was difficult though, because of the age limit. If drugs were legal, it would be pointless to sell the drugs because you wouldn't make money. There would probably be an age limit if all drugs were legal.
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Kingkole
im not a noob...im a a doob

Registered: 11/30/03
Posts: 506
Loc: canadiana
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Re: Is there hope for the psychedelic /drug culture? [Re: kgro]
#2520579 - 04/03/04 12:53 AM (19 years, 9 months ago) |
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If the goverment doesnt outlaw, it will try to control it.
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lightset
UniversalTraveller

Registered: 02/07/04
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Re: Is there hope for the psychedelic /drug culture? [Re: Ravus]
#2520900 - 04/03/04 06:38 AM (19 years, 9 months ago) |
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Ravus said: Yes, but every person helps. Tell people the truth when you hear false drug propaganda, tell as many people as you can who are talking about it or listening to it or debating it. Then, even if only a few of those people listen, and those people tell other people, and the cycle continues, we may just have hope.
And I wonder how many youths actually believe the drug propaganda anyways. It seems many of them believe it when they're younger (5th, 6th, 7th grade,) then as they get older they might try pot as freshman or sophomores and realize that the propaganda is bullshit and from there discredit much of the rest of it.
Yeah, I do try and share the truth with alot of people. I have had talks with a few people and we got into nice convos about it. and most seem to agree. It really makes me angry though when I turn on cops and I see almost everyone getting stomped on for having a little marijuana. Its nuts it seems like america accepts alcohol to an extent, but anything else is taboo. And yeah I agree when I was younger all my friends could get any drug they wanted but it was diffucult to obtain alcohol without an adult. Really shows how backwards everything is. I think I heard somewhere that they should make licenses for drug use, like you take a test so you know how to use them responsibly.
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