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Why aren't Polish dope-promoters prosecuted?


Polonius3  980 | 12275  
31 May 2013 /  #1
This bit of information about police seizing 18,000 portions of ampha in Bielsko-Biała in itself is not a major development, but it does raise a serious question. The only way to resolve the drug problem is by focusing on the demand end. As long as there are nutters who want to ingest poison, the problem will not go away. But Poland has laws against inciting or instigating criminal activity. Why are pop culture representatives (performers, composers, journalists, publishers, film makers, etc.), who effectively normative drug-taking by glamourising it as cool and trendy, not charged with inciting criminal activity. It is they, not parents, schools, the church, etc., who encourage young people to reach for and often become addicted to various stupefying substances.

Such an approach together with a serious crackdown on drug dealers and a dynamic anti-drug information campaign might achieve the results vote-seeking politicians only spout pious platitudes about.
Harry  
31 May 2013 /  #2
Why are pop culture representatives (performers, composers, journalists, publishers, film makers, etc.), who effectively normativise drug-taking by glamourising it as cool and trendy, not charged with inciting criminal activity.

A very good question. Personally I blame the parents of such 'musicians': if they hadn't failed so miserably in their task of bringing up their children, those children wouldn't have grown up to be such a force for evil.
delphiandomine  86 | 17823  
31 May 2013 /  #3
Why are pop culture representatives (performers, composers, journalists, publishers, film makers, etc.), who effectively normativise drug-taking by glamourising it as cool and trendy, not charged with inciting criminal activity.

Could you perhaps show us examples within the Polish media?
Polson  5 | 1767  
31 May 2013 /  #4
How about alcohol and cigarettes? Is it okay to promote them just because they are legal drugs?
jon357  72 | 22788  
31 May 2013 /  #5
pop culture representatives (performers, composers, journalists, publishers, film makers, etc.)

Can you give examples of Amphetamine Sulphate being 'promoted' in Poland?
OP Polonius3  980 | 12275  
31 May 2013 /  #6
Ideally, no addictives nor antisocial or cirminal behaviouir (wife beating, murder, rape, fraud, arson, etc.) should be glamourised, but enforcement may prove difficult.
However the overall decline in tobacco use clearly proves the effectvieness of all-pervasive anti-smoking propaganda. In the US there are health wernings on alcohol labels but I haven't seen that in Poland yet. What about other EU countries?
Polson  5 | 1767  
31 May 2013 /  #7
However the overall decline in tobacco use

In Poland, I doubt that. So many people smoke. Scary.
In France, there may be a decline. Due to increased prices, and strict regulations for smokers in many public places.
jon357  72 | 22788  
31 May 2013 /  #8
So where is this promotion of Amphetamine Sulphate that enraged you so much that you started a thread about it?
rozumiemnic  8 | 3866  
31 May 2013 /  #9
As long as there are nutters who want to ingest poison,

so dont you ever smoke a cigarette drunk a coffee or a beer? taken an anthelmintic or headache pill? because those are poison too u know....

fyi most illegal drugs such as amphetamines, E or lsd were developed by the military, interesting eh?
smurf  38 | 1940  
31 May 2013 /  #10
Proper squares call it dope
OP Polonius3  980 | 12275  
31 May 2013 /  #11
Square is fair. Cool rhymes with fool!
Harry  
31 May 2013 /  #12
so dont you ever smoke a cigarette drunk a coffee or a beer?

Surely you do not wish to imply that a certain somebody posts on PF while tired and emotional?!
pam  
1 Jun 2013 /  #13
It is they, not parents, schools, the church, etc., who encourage young people to reach for and often become addicted to various stupefying substances.

Ah yes, the vulnerable young people, who in the same post you refer to as

nutters who want to ingest poison,

Which is it Polonius?
Thank god most people don't share your horribly narrow minded view of the world is all I have to say.
delphiandomine  86 | 17823  
1 Jun 2013 /  #14
Thank god most people don't share your horribly narrow minded view of the world is all I have to say.

PF mods didn't seem to share his view too ;)
szkotja2007  27 | 1497  
2 Jun 2013 /  #15
Seriously ? Amphetamines ??
The largest group that take speed are truck drivers and shift workers. I don't lose any sleep ( pun intended ) thinking about the social problems that speed causes. More worried about a truck rolling through my living room.

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