Drugs, drugs, and more drugs

I answered as best I can Tandy. And, stuff like this will always be around, the names might be changed, the people doing it may look different, but there will always be a form of intoxication that will damage people in excess. There has been and will be.

 

Such a difficult subject if it was just pot i'd have to say follow Hollands example of this and legalise it to only be sold in regulated cafes. Its still illegal to walk around in public puffing away, but by doing what they've done with this drug makes its no longer a taboo thing to do so its no longer cool. By doing this they have gained control of canibus, also they have eliminated the coolness and the danger. You see i have a theroy on this and its just a theroy, human beings brains are hard wired for danger and excitment take driving for example we all like a bit of speed it invokes our happy endorfines in our brains to release that chemical that gives us butterflies in our bellies its the feel good factor, and we feel good.
So if you eliminate the danger by this i mean control, regulation and decriminalisation of certain drugs and make it available so they don't go skullking around street corners looking for a dealer thats the danger and excitment gone, would the youth of today walk into a public store and buy it some may still do but the upshot would mean the majority would now see it as no longer cool cause its no longer a taboo thing to do.
The youth of today always wether you like it or not want to try anything thats a taboo so drinking, smoking, sex and then drugs all fall into taboo so some excitment comes from being able to get away with it and not get caught.
Most drug related deaths are caused by greedy dealers cutting their product with other chemicals to make it go further and maximise their profit this is very bad for the users control and regulation will stop this.
Please everyone these are just my thoughts don't be offended, i'm not condoning drugs and saying its ok i just feel our goverments of the world can not keep brushing this to one side our young ones are expossed to this every day its time something got done to stop the young ones from dying.

Twomly

 

And if ya take away speed limits, I won't speed anymore either.........

 

Fortunately, never got into any of it. I don't know all the reasons that I didn't, but I just never had the desire. I have seen it first-hand for many years now and the damage it can do to users and their friends and families.

This year alone, I have spent almost $20,000 trying to get my son off prescription drugs. I don't know if it's worked or not, and just because it's been a good day today doesn't mean he won't fall headlong into it again tomorrow. He lost a career job that was paying him $30,000 a year plus benefits (and he was only 20 years old at the time) and has collection agencies after him because he can't pay his debts. He'll be lucky to get anything more than a minimum wage job for the next year or two, and he's got a monkey on his back for the rest of his life. I've spent enough on him this year to buy myself a new work truck. That's nothing compared to the heartache and worry his mother and I have gone through in the past seven months. If I took the time I spent on this situation and actually spent it working, I could probably have bought two work trucks. For those who think it's a victimless crime, this is for you: :eh:

I don't think there's any single thing you can point to and say, "This is the reason people get hooked on drugs." It's different for every person. But it's true, when you use for the first time, you don't know if you'll be using it again occasionally, once a week, once a month, or every day for the rest of your life in a full-blown addiction. You also don't know if it'll be your last day on earth, and you don't know the true costs it has on you physically for many years (right, Jim?)

For those reasons, I don't understand why people want to start in the first place.

 

Man these stories are heartbreaking. I was an all in substance abuser, being a preachers kid was the reason I used......pretty stupid, but so was using.
Anyhow, my 3 kids have just been the opposite, thank God. I don't know how I would cope if any of them followed my lead.
What's your sons name K, need it for my list.........

 

These sort of statements are patently offensive. The "greatest generation" gave us the Hells Angels. What do you suppose we can infer about the entire generation from that?

 

I agree with RG. If you take society as a whole and not break it down into individual inventions etc. As a whole societies morals etc are declining with each successive generation.

 

This is exactly my point.

I just wonder what curmudgeons think of my stepson when they see him with his gaged ears, hip-hop ball cap, ipod headphones and over-sized hoodie sweatshirt.

Then I wonder if they can do Calculus as well as he can or understand a percent of the TCP/IP implementation that he does.

He's 17.

Those that pine for "the good old days" typically are looking through the blurry spectacles of time. In many instances, those days were far worse than memory serves. Blanket condemnations of "those durn kids" can be found as far back as our written history goes. None of them seem to have come true.

 

I don't believe it is "how they look" so much as it is "what they do". The "uni bomber" was a smart man, but was he good?

 

Oh, he's a fun one, isn't he? Smartest guy in the room... thinks technology is going to destroy the human race. The cognitive dissonance that must rage through that man's head is really hard to get a grasp of.

And no, he is a bad man because he harms others due to his delusion.

 

Lol, yea. I think back to some of the schools I went to as a kid, regular schools regular problems of my teen years. Now these same schools have metal detectors and security, Kids are shot and killed, is this a sign of things staying the same or progressing for the worse?

 

How about this:

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Hw308nZrLY]YouTube - Smoke Inhalation[/ame]

I know making fun of a serious problem.


Daris

 

Hey Dude where is the Doritos???

 

We are a violent society. This is simply a progression of technology used to commit violence.

A story of two countries:

During the reign of the Soviet Union the US funneled arms into Afghanistan and schoolbooks into Oman with education for all. Now Oman is a benevolent monarchy with very little sectarian tension while Afghanistan is well... Afghanistan. Ruled by warlords and corruption; home to violence and terrorism. And yes, having Saudi Arabia as a neighbor undoubtedly helped Oman on it's path to peace.

(I do not mean the above to be an endorsement or condemnation of past US policy in the region but I believe the results speak for themselves. It could have just as easily been the UK funneling the aid.)

If you want peace, buy schoolbooks.