glamorizing drugs...

im addicted to * i watch it in excess and some of the threads on this site are not helping my habit

 

The point is, why do we allow alcohol, with all the damage it causes, to be so freely available ?

 

Yeah but it doesn't make it right. I as a free man choose to dabble in drugs with my spare money and don't like the way these * straightpegs tell me not to. They can * right off.

 

Can see why the bull comments came, i agree now to a point, i work * hard now and have so for over 10 years and ill always be a "recovering"addict people, regardless i dont drink, i work hard and outside, but i still get toked up with the best hashish going, Hail Hail.:ANYWORD:draw

 

glamorising drugs

 

anyone who has seen a loved one died from drug abuse(i have pics,will post if necessary)will know wot im talkin about. and peeps talk about kids...comon how the * can anyone look after kids while on skunk??

 

I've all but given up all forms of drugs. Used to be a very much recreational user of all but ganj which i used to smoke everyday. The thing was that i never lost any friends or upset people when i was on drugs but i did when i was boozing.

There are plenty of threads on here glorifying getting hammered and that doesn't raise criticism, but the problems of alcohol are manifest in Scotland. Not just in direct drink related deaths but in crime. I'm sure i heard on the radio the other day that 90% of murders occur when booze in involved, not to mention stabbings and assaults.

The question is, when heroin was legally available on the NHS 50 years ago there were around 2000 addicts in the entire UK. Now when it is illegal there are 20000 in Scotland alone. It kind of gets me thinking about the link between drug dealers and the starting out buying ganj but giving smack a go because it is available at the same point of sale and whether legalising and regulating all drugs would make them harder to get (for smack and crack etc) and would take money out of the pockets of criminals and put it into the treasuries instead. The police are in favour of it but because it is not a vote winner nobody will do it. So instead we have to put up with addicts robbing our houses to buy their next fix. It would also mean we could employ the poppy growers from Afghanistan and get them on our side instead of the people that buy a lot of their drugs for export, Al Queada.

 

My philosophy is ban nothing question everything except maybe crack and smack :icon_mrgreen:. It's not glamorous and not needed on this forum. Smoke or snort away, freedom of choice and all that. Not for me though . Three guys in a cubicle in my local living the glamour life, well I hope it's drugs

 

my *

 

ye now were talkin,it's not just takin drugs,is more...where does all the £ come from? if ur a junkie and on dole???>>> you and me!!!

 

Good post. I would only question one point. When, 50 years ago, there were only 2000 junkies and it was state controlled society was very different. I believe that serious drug addiction was less rife then whether or not drugs were legally controlled. I am not romanticising the past, I realise that people engaged in destructive behaviour 50 years ago as much as they do today. But fewer people slipped through the cracks back then and there just wasn't the same populist drug culture.

 

It's a fair point.

 

Blaming the 60s martin?

 

Considering its the world wide web and drugs are not illegal everywhere then I think its ok.

celtboy I'm not disputing your grief or any other families. I have seen 2 people from my family die one due to drink related illness and one to lung cancer. I recently watched as my partners mum died at the age of 45 lying in a bed till the end *, she looked about 65 at the time of her death and was a mess. The woman was a lifelong alcoholic and to see her waste away like that was heartbreaking. So don't just think that drugs are a killer.
Thats your experience, I'm sure plenty of folk would say drink is promoted on here more than drugs and that more people have lost folk through that whether its split families, jail or death.

And to answer you question about how you can look after kids when stoned, well give it a go

 

* the past....future, thats what count!!!

 

well m8,i 'll take your 1st point ok. but hey if thats what u think of kids, well * help them....no insult intended.

 

whats you avatar is that not romancing gang culture?

 

Not really. Although I do accept that the sixties did see a rise 'alternative' lifestyles.

For me the problem isn't really the drugs. It's that so many people feel so * about themselves and consequently devote their life to destroying themselves. Why are they so unhappy that they have to always 'get out of their nut' ? Is it that bad in their nut ?

The only drug I think should be illegal is smack. I accept that there might even be people who use smack once in a while and don't become an addict. But I think that most folk are at a serious risk of junk destroying their life if they get involved with it. It is degrading to see a junkie, they aren't even a person anymore.

I suppose crack is fairly grim too. So I'd probably ban that too. Otherwise I'm fairly open minded. But IMO the issue is why people need to get out of their nut so much ?