Heroin overdose cure: It exists, but how do you get it?

[Aractus]

Stupidity, insanity, irrationality, illogicality... the point is we both seem to agree that people do not believe that unhealthy behaviour has unwanted negative health side-effects for them.

I disagree that people are "wired" to believe nonsense, what research suggests is that humans reach their conclusions before examining evidence, and thus they will look for evidence that agrees with their already-reached conclusion whilst ignoring that which doesn't. This is why I hear people say that "I've done a lot of research and marijuana has no negative effects" and my response when I hear that is "what about long term memory loss" to which I will hear "it doesn't have any effect on memory". Okay, well didn't they just say they did a 'lot of research'? Well they did, but they ignored and intentionally forgot the evidence they didn't want to see. While we're on the subject the follow-up question I then hear (or sometimes this is the first question) is "well why is alcohol legal and cannabis illegal?" That kind of argumentative question is difficult to address since it's designed to defend their position and for their argument they would have plenty of mounting evidence that alcohol kills and alcohol-fuelled violence is a very real problem. But again it looks at two different sets of effects and then attempts to compare them based on what one does but they other doesn't, alcohol is toxic and addictive, but in small quantities it's actually healthy. In fact caffeine in small quantities is healthy too, yet it's also very unhealthy in large quantities. But there's nothing healthy (beyond the possible medicinal use) about THC. Just like amphetamine for that matter, it is approved for medicinal use but it's not a very good drug without medical supervision.

You don't have to "abuse" cannabis but you will still suffer memory loss which can lead to dementia, unlike alcohol it doesn't have to be "abused" to give off the gift of negativity. Unlike alcohol it stays in your body for long periods of time. This is another fact that I'm often challenged of "nonsense, bullshit, no it doesn't" - yes it does, it gets stored as body fat and research has shown that people who use the drug more have more residual thc in their bodies than those who use it less. The differences may seem subtle, but they are nevertheless there to be seen. Having drugs stored as body fat in my body is the last thing I would want, and I had this very discussion with a friend of mine just the other day, all the while he refused to believe anything I said about cannabis!

And it's the same with other drugs with far worse effects then THC.