RE: The Drug Questions
January 7, 2011 at 3:18 pm
(This post was last modified: January 7, 2011 at 3:24 pm by Shell B.)
This is an easy question for me. However, you will notice that my answer does not explain why governments have laws regarding substance abuse. This is just my point of view on what should be regulated (if anything must be), what shouldn't and why.
I disagree with some forms of substance abuse for one reason, people who use these drugs are a danger to people around them (notice that I don't give a shit if they are a danger to themselves). Pot is perfectly harmless unless you consider being a chubby cake lover a crime. Heroin is certainly more harmful, but only in that used needles that are disposed of improperly pose a risk and also that many heroin addicts become thieves. Essentially the same goes for crack. I am entirely against meth and PCP because they pose a direct threat to people who come into contact with users. These people don't sit around spaced out, they fucking freak out. I once saw a guy on PCP pick up a shopping cart and throw it. (I only know he was high because it happened just outside of the restaurant I was cooking for at the time and we managed to glean as much from the police.). Do you know how fucking heavy those things are? As for meth, it is highly toxic, flammable and explosive. When I used to live outside Fort Lewis in Washington, meth cooks used to drop their waste over the fence on post because the Army was then obligated to clean it up. Soldiers had to wear Hasmat suits to take care of it. Meth is really bad out there and I would hear about fires on the news all the time.
Anyway, those are my only big contentions with substance abuse. I could go on and add domestic violence and child abuse to my list of qualms, but I think you get my point. Hooray for pot! Boo meth!
I know for a fact that pot can trigger anxiety attacks and paranoia. As for delusions and psychosis, that is a little less clear. There are a number of "studies" that support this, but none of them can seem to account for the fact that many people who already have mental issues self medicate with illegal drugs. So, the question really is, "What came first, the propensity for psychosis or the pot?" It may even be both. The propensity is there and the pot triggers it. Nonetheless, there is no denying that many people use marijuana with virtually no ill effects.
I disagree with some forms of substance abuse for one reason, people who use these drugs are a danger to people around them (notice that I don't give a shit if they are a danger to themselves). Pot is perfectly harmless unless you consider being a chubby cake lover a crime. Heroin is certainly more harmful, but only in that used needles that are disposed of improperly pose a risk and also that many heroin addicts become thieves. Essentially the same goes for crack. I am entirely against meth and PCP because they pose a direct threat to people who come into contact with users. These people don't sit around spaced out, they fucking freak out. I once saw a guy on PCP pick up a shopping cart and throw it. (I only know he was high because it happened just outside of the restaurant I was cooking for at the time and we managed to glean as much from the police.). Do you know how fucking heavy those things are? As for meth, it is highly toxic, flammable and explosive. When I used to live outside Fort Lewis in Washington, meth cooks used to drop their waste over the fence on post because the Army was then obligated to clean it up. Soldiers had to wear Hasmat suits to take care of it. Meth is really bad out there and I would hear about fires on the news all the time.
Anyway, those are my only big contentions with substance abuse. I could go on and add domestic violence and child abuse to my list of qualms, but I think you get my point. Hooray for pot! Boo meth!
downbeatplumb Wrote:I have had two friends who have become paranoid and psychotic, indeed one of them was institutionalised, and the other probably should have been, as a direct result of overindulgence of some of the more potent european strains of cannabis, there seems to have been competition amongst producers to produce more and more potent varieties. The end result is a drug quantatively different to the strains enjoyed 20 odd years ago that some of us enjoyed,(I shall name no names).
I know for a fact that pot can trigger anxiety attacks and paranoia. As for delusions and psychosis, that is a little less clear. There are a number of "studies" that support this, but none of them can seem to account for the fact that many people who already have mental issues self medicate with illegal drugs. So, the question really is, "What came first, the propensity for psychosis or the pot?" It may even be both. The propensity is there and the pot triggers it. Nonetheless, there is no denying that many people use marijuana with virtually no ill effects.
