The war on drugs kills yet more people.
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Its an interesting artical, and an interesting challenge. I solve the issues as many others do by using alcohol as my recreational drug of choice. Its legal and regulared, widely avilable, the side effects are managable, we have plenty of data on it, and its not unreasonably priced. Bar the first point, very much like LSD...
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Do you not drink, or is this a confession?
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Another side effect appears to be an inability to spell.
Or is the truth being slurred here?
Both letters are next to each other on the keyboard, stop nit pickimg 
I didnt say there where no side effects, i said they where managable. Most people have very few, and given the number of users, the total number of injuries, violence, death in minimal.
Have you read the artical?
Daniel
Well I wouldnt say my having a few beers one night a week is me blocking out reality, nor is having a few more and the odd vodka and coke on three/four weekends a year.
Last Saturday I was a party till two in the morning, but had to drive home afterwards as I had things to do on the Sunday, so was on the Lemonade all night. It was fine, but personally, I would have had a slightly better time for a small amount of alcohol.
Do you not drink?
Daniel
Well maybe persistent posting on internet forums could be akin to 'getting a fix' from a drug ...
Classic misinformed ignorant statement. I take it you've never had a beer or smoked a cigarette in your life then? Alcohol and nicotine are drugs as well, just legal ones. The fact they've been around the longest and so ingrained in society is the only reason why they're still legal. If alcohol had only been discovered relatively recently like many illegal drugs it's pretty certain that it wouldn't be legal and freely available as it is now. Imagine if any other drug caused as much damage as alcohol did and was freely available? The media would be up in arms and calling for it to be banned. It simply wouldn't be accepted if any other drug caused untold damage to city centres across the country over weekends as alcohol does, with people fighting, throwing up and generally making tw*ts out of themselves. Yet with alcohol it's just accepted and 'getting smashed' is just part of our culture and almost encouraged.
Yet if anyone dares to have a different drug other than one of the legal ones, they're suddenly seen as some sort of scumbag and criminalised. Even though many of the illegal drugs are much safer than the legal ones it's still frowned upon by many. Have you ever been to a rave or been in the company of some stoners? I'd far rather be in any of those situations than in many of our town centres on a weekend when you've often got to be every mindful of people around you and keep your wits about you. I use to go clubbing a lot whereby the majority of people are on ecstasy and the atmosphere is a million times better than any city centre club/bar where the drug of choice is alcohol. Yet, again those on ecstasy who are causing no harm to anyone and much more friendlier are supposedly the ones in the wrong.
Taking drugs is a pretty natural thing, people have always taken drugs and always will. The war on drugs is an utter fallacy as you can never remove that human urge to take them. Rather than allow the use of those drugs that are the least harmful and have the most research behind them, the government have pushed people onto these legal highs which are much more dangerous and have hardly anything known about them. Taken in moderation as with alcohol, most illegal drugs are relatively safe. It's their illegality that pushes their manufacture and distribution into the hands of criminals and the lack of information about safe usage which is the cause of most deaths.
What is "reality" anyway? Most of the post-childhood humans on the planet are probably having their perception of the world altered, be it by caffeine, marijuana, cocoa, iboga, alcohol.....
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EddieM
define drug?
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ImayKnow
I am not bothered by people being killed by drugs. If they are foolish enough to take them that is their look out.
Did you even read the article?
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