Yes. Drugs are drugs. My whole point is that telling everyone drugs are illegal won't make the drugs disappear. Just look at what happened in America when they declared alcoholic beverages illegal. The Mafia took over and people got killed. And for what? Drinking a beer?
Maybe its better than a great amount of ppl who can get addicted/ill because of easy access of drugs? Illegalness is still some king of obstacle in massive over-usage.
I want to add I'm against criminalisation of drug users. I'm just against legalisation of any drug.
Replace that with freedom taken. We don't start out with limitations, they are applied.
They are applied before something start to be massive ... I mean that alcohol and cigarates started to be widely accepted cultural phenomenom that's why they cannot be prohibited in direct way. Instead of that officials try to make a ban for smoking in almost every place besides your own house and you can buy alcohol (I don't mean here Poland) in limited places, soemtimes in limited amount (like in Sweden). Its obviouse that those 2 legal "drugs" are harmful and cost of health system is mlns each year... so it would be reasonable to ban them.
How do you feel about caffeine? Chocolate?
Chocolate won't make you schizophrenic... I think ;P ;)
How about sex? It's addictive, and you can get all kinds of nasty diseases.
Wait for a time when some paranoic addicted mug you on the street because of his voices in the head...
The only people to suffer any form of schizophrenia are those that already have it in their genes. Marijuana does not bring on schizophrenia and if you ever find research that proves me wrong then I'll eat my hat.
Exactly. And the problem is no one really knows what kind genes one have... Ppl who have bad genes can be perfectly healthy and never get ill in their entire life. But drugs makes them more prone to get ill. And that's true.
A freedom once give can of course be taken back just recently some legal drugs available in
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in Ireland
were made illegal, so a freedom can be abolished quite quickly actually.
Read the thing I've just written above. If something get too deep in culture in cant be abolished just that.
1. harmless, once smoked in it's natural form
So what? There are lots of specifics in nature which can harm you. The distinction between natural and not natural (chemical?) is often used as a comercial stunt and in the chemical point of view has nothing to do with substance toxicity...
2. Not addictive
3. Not a gateway drug
Some say it is, some say its not. Depends on a man. Of course it doesn't make so great social problems like other drugs (no one steal to get money for marihuana or sell one's body) but some ppl say it may make you lacking in motivation, memory problems or depressed if overused. And some ppl overuse it!