Drugs...listen

[JZ]

I still stand by my original opinions about the legislation of drugs.
(Beckite, I'm not trying to start an argument with you, because from what I've read you seem like a decent bloke, and I wish you all the best) BUT...

perhaps it should be looked at the why people feel the need to use drugs, be they legal or not, to escape the reality of life, rather than blaming the drugs themselves

[Steve Camber]

Drugs are bad m'kay. Save your cash and get your kicks elsewhere.

Nothing clever about getting pissed out of your skull either, alcohol is a poison after all, and you only get the one body.

Bite me!

[uncle_colin]

He said if it weren't illegal, he could just smoke it pure without having to stretch it with tobacco - which tunred him into a tobacco addict. Odd point, you might think, but to be perfectly honest, that is exactly what happened to me. I am now 32 and sadly smoke more than a packet a day - but I had only taken up smoking "properly" at 24! Which was quite a while after I started smoking joints, but only without me realising did I suddenly feel the urge to smoke cigarettes as well. Once in a while, once a day, and I actually don't think I bought a packet myself before I was 24. So I actually reckon the point is valid - the nicotine got to me cause a pure spliff is too expensive.

I feel this is a rather bizarre argument. I mean I believe yr story and everything but I'm sure if they legalised it the majority would smoke it with tobacco anyway, this based on my experience with canabis-users. If everyone smoked pure spliffs soceity would break down ffs. At the end of the day, tobacco screws up yr heart and lungs, and canabis turns you into a dazed,confused moron, with shit memory skills, and crap conversational skills. So yr argument is neither here nor there, because pure canabis is just as harmful as tobacco. If you get cancer (and god forbid I hope you don't), you can't seriously blame it on the fact that "it's the governments fault for not legalising cannabis". I don't mean that in physical terms either, but not only are you ruining yr mind and sitting on yr ass talking bollocks, you are also boring others around you.
I agree with you on the dangers of alcohol, it is overlooked, yr right, but alcohol gets bad press from the unfortunate few who depend on it. Going down the pub with a mate is fun, talking to a Zombie isn't.

[Tripod]

I agree with you on the dangers of alcohol, it is overlooked, yr right, but alcohol gets bad press from the unfortunate few who depend on it.

That was all I wanted to point out in the first place.

I feel this is a rather bizarre argument. I mean I believe yr story and everything but I'm sure if they legalised it the majority would smoke it with tobacco anyway, this based on my experience with canabis-users. If everyone smoked pure spliffs soceity would break down ffs. At the end of the day, tobacco screws up yr heart and lungs, and canabis turns you into a dazed,confused moron, with shit memory skills, and crap conversational skills.

I agree it is rather bizarre. Just minutely better would be to say that legalising Cannabis won't increase the # of cigarette smokers by a large amount.

Still, you must have had bad experiences with cannabis users - you seem very negative about them. I actually see it like alcohol - in moderation (not being stoned all day long, but maybe once a week) it is pretty harmless. To all KOA members who met me: Was I a dazed, confored moron with a shitty memory and crap conversational skills? I mean, beyond normal extent? And when I smoke a spliff, I like to stay at home, watch a bit of footie, play a bit of KO2... As with other things, people who start a morning with a joint and spend the rest of the day with a bong have serious problems and run into more. And yes, I have also been bored by people I meet on a party who are completed wasted and not exactly talkative...

[Pee]

.....and there's nothing worse or more cringeworthy than turning up at the pub/party sober when your mates/family are pissed. Makes you wonder why they are your mates etc in the first place. And we've all been bored by a pissed person and it's a hellish experience compared to a stoned person.

EVERYTHING IN MODERATION

[Durbz]

My mate had to give a statment at the cop shop the other day because someone had hit his car and drove away. It was a Saturday and he just asked the copper who was taking his statment if she was ready for the Saturday nights fun and games.

The copper said the days of everyone getting drunk and fighting eachother are over, most party goers are doing "E" they just want to shag each other now, it makes our lives a lot easier.

We as human beings like nothing better than to unwind at the end of the week. The question is, what drug would help us do this without any long term side effects?

[JamesHBeard]

At the end of the day, tobacco screws up yr heart and lungs, and canabis turns you into a dazed,confused moron, with shit memory skills, and crap conversational skills.

This is one of my favourite quotes of the year so far

I just cant stop laughing when I read it, nice one Uncle Colin..

[MJB]

I say legalise Marihuana of course, not a single death has ever been reported,

It's interesting that I'm made out to show ignorance in my post, which, I must say, was grossly misinterpratated, and then for you to show ignorance as well.

You say legalise canabis, despite the fact that a couple of weeks ago, the first death was reported, due to canabis poisoning. O.K, maybe only one death, but the fact that scientists are still working through the long term effects of the drug, I'd say it's rather frightning news. The drug has of course, become stronger than it was in the sixties, and this man's death was a result of over-indulgence into this particualar drug.

Also, you say legalise canabis, despite the fact that you need tobacco to smoke it in a spliff. Are you ignorant enough to think that canabis-smokers don't die of throat cancer?

Thirdly, I for one would hate to be surrounded in a soceity by pot smoking over-indulgers, who feel the need to bore the fuck out of me whilst completely forgetting what they've just said.

To comment on your first point: you say frightening, I say bollux. Scientists have made quite conclusive reports on the long term effects of cannabis and compared to the long term dangers of consuming alchol, such conclusiuons do not warrant the banning of cannabis if alchol is legal. One person dying is basically irrelevant in this discussion. Ban paracetemol

To comment on your second point: whilst you accurately identify tobacco as an integral constituent of a spliff, it is not an integral part of smoking cannabis. You can't say ban gear because people smoke (legal) tobacco.

Thirdly I'd hate it if every weekend I would have to walk down the street surrounded by obnoxious, loutish wankers who think it is funny to smash windows, throw kebabs over the pavement, start fights and throw up all over the place.

Oh I do already.

[SimonB]

Ban sugar - the silent addiction the secret killer!

[MJB]

Drugs are bad m'kay. Save your cash and get your kicks elsewhere.

Nothing clever about getting pissed out of your skull either, alcohol is a poison after all, and you only get the one body.

Bite me!

All should adhere to Steve's words if you want the greatest chance of living a long safe life. If you want to perhaps experiment with exploring some of the wonderous things that have magically appeared on the planet, don't.

[uncle_colin]

To comment on your first point: you say frightening, I say bollux. Scientists have made quite conclusive reports on the long term effects of cannabis

I wasn't aware of this, to my knowledge it's widely accepted that the studies are as yet inconclusive.

One person dying is basically irrelevant in this discussion. Ban paracetemol

Oh I agree, I was merely pointing out Tripod's ignorance on a previous post.

Thirdly I'd hate it if every weekend I would have to walk down the street surrounded by obnoxious, loutish wankers who think it is funny to smash windows, throw kebabs over the pavement, start fights and throw up all over the place.

Oh I do already.

I think this has more to do with the social climate of Gloucester than the effects of alcohol on the human race.

[JamesHBeard]

Who pays for all these drug addicts and alcohol abusers to get thru there addiction problem ? the tax payers ? Oh that includes me, do I get a say in this ? NO !!

I would rather my tax go towards finding a cure for cancer or towards pensioners/ world war II veterans / the disabled etc to be honest.

[MJB]

He said if it weren't illegal, he could just smoke it pure without having to stretch it with tobacco - which tunred him into a tobacco addict. Odd point, you might think, but to be perfectly honest, that is exactly what happened to me. I am now 32 and sadly smoke more than a packet a day - but I had only taken up smoking "properly" at 24! Which was quite a while after I started smoking joints, but only without me realising did I suddenly feel the urge to smoke cigarettes as well. Once in a while, once a day, and I actually don't think I bought a packet myself before I was 24. So I actually reckon the point is valid - the nicotine got to me cause a pure spliff is too expensive.

I feel this is a rather bizarre argument. I mean I believe yr story and everything but I'm sure if they legalised it the majority would smoke it with tobacco anyway, this based on my experience with canabis-users. If everyone smoked pure spliffs soceity would break down ffs. At the end of the day, tobacco screws up yr heart and lungs, and canabis turns you into a dazed,confused moron, with shit memory skills, and crap conversational skills. So yr argument is neither here nor there, because pure canabis is just as harmful as tobacco. If you get cancer (and god forbid I hope you don't), you can't seriously blame it on the fact that "it's the governments fault for not legalising cannabis". I don't mean that in physical terms either, but not only are you ruining yr mind and sitting on yr ass talking bollocks, you are also boring others around you.
I agree with you on the dangers of alcohol, it is overlooked, yr right, but alcohol gets bad press from the unfortunate few who depend on it. Going down the pub with a mate is fun, talking to a Zombie isn't.

What are you on about ? Am I the only one struggling to unserstand this ?Sorry I don't follow this nonsense whatsoever. How do you figure that pure canabis is as harmful as tobacco ? The National Toxicology Program of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services listed even smokeless tobacco in it's 10th report of carcinogens under the section headed "Known to be Human Carcinogens". I note that tetrahydrocannibol was not listed in this report even in the section headed "Reasonably Anticipated to be a Human Carcinogen". I can only deduce that you consider it as hardful as tobacco because it "turns you into a dazed,confused moron, with shit memory skills, and crap conversational skills". Yes canabis is known to affect the memory but I would hardly consider it's effects as disabaling as you would suggest. So not only do I find these comments of yours quite offensive, they are also rather erroneuos.