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offline Monoid from one source all things depend on 2004-09-06 10:56 [#01326421]
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The government suppresses drugs because drugs enlighten
people.

Otherwise hallucinogens which arent addictive nor deadly,
would not be illegal.

LSD, which was the basis for most of the counter culture
movement of the 60s, was a HUGE threat to people in power.
Not only did it enlighten people and make them tend to
forget about being productive worker bees, it made them
start questioning the whole idea of letting a particular
class of people rule the world "just because"

So if we legalize GUNS, why dont we legalize drugs, huh !?


 

offline mrgypsum on 2004-09-06 10:58 [#01326422]
Points: 5103 Status: Lurker



actually you take a LEFT at the first set of lights, then a
right. let me know how you make out.


 

offline earthleakage from tell the world you're winning on 2004-09-06 10:59 [#01326423]
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drugs do exactly the opposite, they keep the masses in check


 

offline mrgypsum on 2004-09-06 11:00 [#01326425]
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i can do this to:
The recent explosion in these numbers precisely parallels
the increased use in narcotics and the accompanying
proliferation of drug-related violence - a fact conveniently
ignored by politicians who would rather see the blame pinned
on the victims of the policies that have caused the problem
in the first place. While intoning "Just Say No [to drugs],"
President Reagan slashed spending for social programmes, aid
to the inner cities and other policies which would have
improved conditions for the nation's poorest.

Under Reagan and Bush, 70% of the federal drug budget was
aimed at law enforcement while only 30% was focused on
education, prevention and treatment. Under Clinton, two
thirds of the budget was still focused on law enforcement.


 

offline plaster from splitska 10 on 2004-09-06 11:03 [#01326428]
Points: 4173 Status: Regular



fools


 

offline Monoid from one source all things depend on 2004-09-06 11:04 [#01326432]
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Remember Iran Contra ? What the fuck was that all about


 

offline boobah from pants on 2004-09-06 11:04 [#01326433]
Points: 613 Status: Lurker



stools


 

offline virginpusher from County Clare on 2004-09-06 11:06 [#01326438]
Points: 27325 Status: Lurker



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offline corrupted-girl on 2004-09-06 11:07 [#01326440]
Points: 8469 Status: Regular



pro-choice, legal or illegal, as long as no harm is done to
others.


 

offline qrter from the future, and it works (Netherlands, The) on 2004-09-06 11:13 [#01326459]
Points: 47414 Status: Moderator



Drugs are thought for tools


 

offline earthleakage from tell the world you're winning on 2004-09-06 11:13 [#01326460]
Points: 27795 Status: Regular



the harm is giving the choice


 

offline zaphod from the metaverse on 2004-09-06 11:17 [#01326469]
Points: 4428 Status: Addict



new aphex twin album out in october


 

offline corrupted-girl on 2004-09-06 11:18 [#01326471]
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no


 

offline mrgypsum on 2004-09-06 11:19 [#01326475]
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cant wait


 

offline The_Funkmaster from St. John's (Canada) on 2004-09-06 11:23 [#01326483]
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drugs are stupid...


 

offline earthleakage from tell the world you're winning on 2004-09-06 11:25 [#01326486]
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perhaps you'd like to extend your ill conceived opinion to
other areas of life and see how far you get in you utopian
anarchy.


 

offline epohs from )C: on 2004-09-06 11:27 [#01326489]
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why should the gov't be able to control what i do to/with
myself as long as it has no effect on others?


 

offline zaphod from the metaverse on 2004-09-06 11:29 [#01326491]
Points: 4428 Status: Addict



it pretty much always has an effect on others.


 

offline yann_g from now on 2004-09-06 11:30 [#01326496]
Points: 3772 Status: Lurker



nice avatar zaphod


 

offline epohs from )C: on 2004-09-06 11:33 [#01326499]
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but there are already laws to deal with that... if you're
referring to driving while intoxicated, child neglegt, or
theft.

however, there are plenty of drug users who do not drive
while intoxicated, neglect their children, or steal. why
should they be made criminals?


 

offline dog_belch from Netherlands, The on 2004-09-06 11:34 [#01326501]
Points: 15098 Status: Addict | Show recordbag



Drugs can help you maintain the delusion that your lazy,
navel gazing, self absorbed, selfish, wasteful lifestyle is
some sort of "political act"


 

offline Sido Dyas from a computer on 2004-09-06 11:35 [#01326502]
Points: 8876 Status: Lurker



I have never ever had a bright thought when high.

Only stupid people feel enlightenment when high cause they
are one dimensional in real life and unable to see anything
from a different angle.


 

offline zaphod from the metaverse on 2004-09-06 11:37 [#01326506]
Points: 4428 Status: Addict



i hate when people tell me i'll be more creative when high.
that is so much bullshit. it just dulls your mind.


 

offline earthleakage from tell the world you're winning on 2004-09-06 11:44 [#01326511]
Points: 27795 Status: Regular



i think by creative they meant hungry


 

offline zaphod from the metaverse on 2004-09-06 11:46 [#01326514]
Points: 4428 Status: Addict



probably


 

offline mrgypsum on 2004-09-06 12:47 [#01326584]
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i agree but, what if there were a drug that heightens your
awareness and actually increases your mental capacities,
would you do it?


 

offline r40f from qrters tea party on 2004-09-06 12:54 [#01326591]
Points: 14210 Status: Regular



i agree with corrupted girl. the rationale isn't
anarchistic.

if we decriminalise drugs and set up more social programs to
help the people on them get treatment, these addicts won't
have to go around to drug dealers and rob liquor stores to
get their next fix. so you would be eliminating the
criminal element of drukqs tremendously.


 

offline mrgypsum on 2004-09-06 13:01 [#01326602]
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last time i checked suicide was against the law.


 

offline corrupted-girl on 2004-09-06 13:03 [#01326604]
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people don't need to be controlled, babied or lied to. we
need to be educated, free of expression and feel self-worth.


if we had that, there'd be no need for self-destructive
behavior, such as allowing an addiction to drugs, alcohol,
cigs, food, sex, TV etc.

drugs aren't the issue, they are simply symptoms of the true
problems.



 

offline corrupted-girl on 2004-09-06 13:05 [#01326607]
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we focus too much on the aftermath instead of prevention and
decresing the causes.


 

offline mrgypsum on 2004-09-06 13:05 [#01326608]
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even in a perfect society people would still have problems,
there are no easy answers.


 

offline r40f from qrters tea party on 2004-09-06 13:06 [#01326609]
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i'm not saying drugs are beneficial to one's health
whatsoever. it's just a question of how you look at the
problem.

surely you realize the so-called war on drugs failed from
the start and has been a huge waste of money and lives?
this is an alternative solution that has been proposed by
many others.

it gives sick people medical help. how can you argue with
that?


 

offline r40f from qrters tea party on 2004-09-06 13:07 [#01326612]
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well said!


 

offline corrupted-girl on 2004-09-06 13:08 [#01326617]
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there ARE easy answers. the problem is the easy answers
don't seem to benefit the big man's pockets.

of course there will always be problems.. but most of them
can easily be diminished. this isn't an all or nothing
situation. even a happy medium would be better then how
things are now.


 

offline mrgypsum on 2004-09-06 13:09 [#01326621]
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programs like this will always be around, because there is
money to be made in them,
what i am saying is, if you legalize drugs, it will destroy
people, it will help the addiscts, yes i agree with this,
but it will allow people to use drugs in a recreational way,
with is very bad.


 

offline r40f from qrters tea party on 2004-09-06 13:11 [#01326626]
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you are assuming that more people will use drugs if they
were decriminalised, but studies (that were presented to me
by a hard-line republican) have shown that there would not
be a significant increase.


 

offline mrgypsum on 2004-09-06 13:15 [#01326630]
Points: 5103 Status: Lurker



i think that if you legalize anything, you are opening it up
for mass usage, look at alcohol, it is the deadliest drug
because it is legal. the usage might not spike, but the
people who choose to use it, are screwed because there is
unlimited access to it.

look at alcohol cigaretts cafeine


 

offline corrupted-girl on 2004-09-06 13:22 [#01326634]
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trying to control people's choices, which these choices are
highly based on what you taught them and the kind of country
you made for them, will only feed the problems. if you want
to change the way things are going because it's negative and
destroying a huge part of people and their contentment, then
you have to go to the root of the problem.

it's like letting your child sit infront of the TV for hours
because you're too lazy of a parent to do something
beneficial with him... then you get mad and punish your
child for pretending to shoot his baby sister with his toy
gun just like how he saw on Cops or something.


 

offline mrgypsum on 2004-09-06 13:22 [#01326635]
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there is a point where you need to be protected from
addiction. once you are addicted to a substance, it starts
to own you. you because a different person.


 

offline mrgypsum on 2004-09-06 13:27 [#01326641]
Points: 5103 Status: Lurker



i totally agree that too much emphasis is placed on the
addict as a criminal, i just think that the addict will
always be addicted to the substance, and having certain
substance illegal, keeps some people from using the most
dangerous drugs.

i agree with what you guys are saying, just you cannot
legalize drugs, its too dangerous for the people using the
drugs.


 

offline corrupted-girl on 2004-09-06 13:28 [#01326642]
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yup, you kinda know there's something wrong when all three
of those substances are legal and highly used among most of
the population and causes many deaths and accidents.. but
yet you over-crowd your prisons with weed users/dealers or
other users/dealers that are of less or equally harmful as
the legal substances.

oh and don't forget the thousand of children as young as 3
who are on methamphetamines or similar substances prescibed
by their friendly doctors.

and you're worried about some grass or some kids tripping on
shrooms with their friends on weekends?



 

offline r40f from qrters tea party on 2004-09-06 13:32 [#01326646]
Points: 14210 Status: Regular



if the government were to take a fraction of what they pay
to fight the failed war on drugs and use it for education,
rehabilitation, perhaps drug-awareness programs, you would
see way fewer people on drugs. again, drug use is indeed
one element of a larger social problem. there are many
changes that could be made that would help eliminate the
climate for more drug use.

but people in general are not waiting for drugs to become
legalized to do them. that's a misconception. in fact,
many kids start taking them because they're illegal (to
rebel).

we had prohibition in the 30's - did that stop alcohol? no,
it created the mafia.


 

offline corrupted-girl on 2004-09-06 13:33 [#01326649]
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at least the meth heads and coke dealers have a choice and
aren't raised on it.

i don't think drugs, alcohol or cigs should be legal. but i
do think they should be de-criminalized.
it's a waste of tax payers money to be keeping thousands of
weed dealers in these over-crowded prisons.. that money can
go to far better causes.. such as education? what about
special programs to help kids with these so called
"ADD/ADHD" issues? maybe that way we wouldn't have to put
them on uppers when they get excited and hyper.. because god
forbid children get excited and hyper!


 

offline mrgypsum on 2004-09-06 13:34 [#01326650]
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i havent said anything about which drugs, take weed for
example, ok say its made legal, scenerio:
so now its legal, you can basically get it any CVS
i go in and they this new high quality stuff, i buy it and
wow, i am really f'ing high, and look i can smoke it without
worrying about being arrest, basically i am only harming
myself.

by the time i am older, i am such a stoner i cant hold down
a job, i spend all of my money on legal weed, and the
quality so high that i cant function in society when i am
stoned

i am not a criminal but i am a waste of a human, my life is
controlled by weed.


 

offline mrgypsum on 2004-09-06 13:37 [#01326655]
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i am done on this subject, i agree with what you guys are
saying and the us's drug policies suck ass, but drugs are a
big issue not just for the us, but for humans in general,
the us is just one way to cope with it, its the absolute
wrong way, but its a way nonetheless.


 

offline epohs from )C: on 2004-09-06 13:37 [#01326656]
Points: 17620 Status: Lurker



"just you cannot legalize drugs, its too dangerous for
the people using the drugs.
"

that shouldn't be your choice to make.

I think rock climbing is too dangerous, but i don't expect
anyone to make it illegal.


 

offline mrgypsum on 2004-09-06 13:41 [#01326663]
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so is driving a car,
but these drugs are substances you put in your body, if i
put myself in danger, in a sober state of mind i am taking
control of my actions,
but you lose that control when drugs are involved.


 

offline zaphod from the metaverse on 2004-09-06 13:43 [#01326665]
Points: 4428 Status: Addict | Followup to epohs: #01326656



rock climbing should be illegal though, i mean look at what
passes for humor in their circles.


 

offline epohs from )C: on 2004-09-06 13:45 [#01326667]
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loose control and do what?

there are laws that govern every single concievable action
that one could do while under the influence. why not simply
inforce those laws instead of creating new laws that punish
even the non-criminal drug users.

just because one psycho reads catcher in the rye and
assasinates a president doesn't mean that the book should be
outlawed. quite a few people have read the book, and i'm
pretty sure not all of them turned into murderous nutbags.


 

offline r40f from qrters tea party on 2004-09-06 13:49 [#01326669]
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two points:

decriminalization and legalization are two different things.


decriminalization is not in any way synonomous with
encouraging drug use.


 


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