[PUG] The Drug Culture

Yes. I lost a good friend in High School to it. I won't go into details, but I'll say the drug culture in our hometown was overwhelmingly present in the schools. I was a lucky one, I managed to avoid getting much more involved than having many friends who were users of some sort.

 

I believe alcohol is a drug, more of a drug than marijuana, and it definitely tops my charts as the largest influence on me.

I have known more people that have died, or should have died, due to alcohol related incidents than anything else. This is in regards to drunk driving and also alcohol poisoning.

Methamphetamine is a close 2nd.

But whether alcohol is relevant is for Enty to decide.

 

Yes, I'm being directly affected by drugs. My city and country is going through the worst drug wars in history. There's an average of 15 drug related murderers each day and these same drug cartels are going though our houses and asking for money to support their "cause" and if we do not cooperate we die.

 

Both of my parents are alcoholics in recovery and I am the founder of a youth program which is a support group for kids of parents or people who are in recovery. You'll soon be hearing more about this youth group I think we're getting a documentary done about us, I don't think I'll be one of the stories that they feature but yeah.

Drugs have indirectly effected my life because many of my family members are drug addicts and alcoholics who've decided not to go into recovery. It's damaging, I can't visit with my cousins because of my drunken aunt.

 

it's because they use drugs in their spare time and do not have an addiction problem with them -so they think-

when benw see's this thread he'll rip it up, that's a promise.

 

There are many things...such as addictions...that rob us of our human potential and efface the native goodness that is our destiny. The illusion is that they will bring us some benefit...but the legacy of these has been shown to be nothing but destruction. They are non-starters and not worth our limited time in this life.

 

I do not dwell with the hard core drugs. Perhpas alcohol and wine when the mood strikes me. but I am more of a natural medicine type of person....

I have met very cool people through marijuana connections....

 

I don't know if I should be posting in this thread, due to my history and it's personal nature with me, so I'll try to keep this brief. Drugs have affected me personally. Hospital visits, court dates, being arrested, and even long term lasting side-effects to my vision.

Drugs can be a bad thing, but they're never going away (at least I don't see it happening). I think many of the drug laws are ridiculous. Users and abusers of drugs are treated the same as the people dealing. The people who need help are being locked up with the very people who can supply them with drugs.

My nation has the highest prison population in the world, and a majority of those prisoners are non-violent criminals who are locked up on drug charges. I find that wrong, and sickening. This man is proof (if he was a drug user, I'm not sure if thats what his charges were or not) that the prison system is not the way to fix the drug culture.

I'm not going to go into a zealous speel about it, but I don't believe our system is working.

 

Yeah but then people are going to come in an argue that mind altering drugs can effect the brain in a positive way and that there are studies that lead us to think that drugs such as marijuana can effect a person positively, and they'll bring in the one glass of wine a day arguement and then they will cite all sorts of studies that in fact do lead people to question whether or not drugs have an entirely negative effect.


Then the other side will come in and argue that the bad outweighs the good and look how many people have died from overdoses and drunk car accidents and how negatively addiction can effect people's lives.

Then the other side will come in and say that not everyone gets addicted it's only a rare few that misuse the drugs and that nobody's ever overdosed on marijuana, and eventually one person will start turning the debate into whether drugs should be legalized or not.

Then the other side will be all stubborn and will not want to look at the possibility that drugs could be good for people and that the other sides are complete idiots.

The other side will continue to debate that drugs have a positive effect on the brain and that addiction is a sham and everything will cycle from that point, it will become a debate upon the definition of addiction and a variety of other terms and question whether the sources of the studies done on the brain were valid or not.

 

I will say that drugs have not affected me in a large way. I dabbled with several drugs in college. Never got hooked on anything thank god. Alcohol is another story. Both my paternal grandmother and maternal grandfather where stone-cold alcoholics. My grandfather died of it when my mom was 9 yrs old. I myself have to watch my intake when things start going bad. Alcohol has done more damage than all the other drugs combined.

I did have a cousin die this last year of drug-related pheumonia. It was very sad, as he was only 30 and has a daughter Chealsa's age. He was not real close, the drugs kept him away from all of us.

My personal opinion is that they should make pot legal, tax it, and control it. Use that money to combat the more distructive drugs. Pot is no more distructive than tobacco or alcohol. We tie up too many resources fighting it--it's stupid. And I don't believe for a second that it leads to harder drug use anymore than alcohol does. If booze is legal, pot should be too. Just my two cents.