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But drugs has always been banned, so it's hard to see the difference if they made drugs legal. I think making drugs legal will make things worst in this country. Currently, the drug problem is so good, and so low, it is good.
Actually, Greta, in the States the movement to prohibit morphine, heroin, cocaine, etc., did not begin until early in the 20th Century, and then the history of legislation and proclamations were filled with lies and fear mongering. The fear tactics have been renewed recently in the campaign against medical oxycontin. Doctors here are being intimidated to stop prescribing pain killing medications. So, people with chronic pain, especially the elderly, are in jeopardy.
I fear I failed to state clearly my understanding of addiction. People become addicted through habitual, repeated behaviors promoted by whatever makes them feel good or lessens their pain. Chemical substances do not automatically create addictions. Many people have used cocaine as a recreational drug without becoming addicted. Addiction is a psycho-social-behavioral issue, not a chemical issue. Banning chemicals, as has been our experience with Prohibition and the War on Drugs, only gives birth to criminal enterprises.
The War on Drugs could be more successful as a medical-behavioral enterprise to help addicts.
The Harrison act is what banned cocaine. That was back then. Back in those days you could buy morphine over the counter. There was a substance called paragoric they gave to their kids when they were teething. It had morphine and alcohol in it. I bet that shut the little fuckers up ! LOL They just be smilin' !
Whether it was right or not to do so I do not know. Did it have a deleterious effect on their development ? Well as far as I know, nobody studied that.
You take one group of people who say there is no reason for the kid to suffer when you have the means to stop it they will make a good argument. And then you got people like me who reject the notion that you have the right to a pain free life. Really, some people think you should never have to experience any pain. If there is any exception to that it is teething because that is totally natural.
Others, like me, believe different. I do not take pain killers unless you include beer. It was painful to let my wisdom teeth grow in. You know, probably alot of dentists don't even know that those come in crooked and then straighten out. I have the full set and when they were coming in I didn't even tbnink of a painkiller or a dentist who would remove them for a fee of course. Not I am 55 and never lost a tooth. Broke a couple and chipped a couple more, but not only are they there, they are still growing. I chipped a front tooth a long time ago and just a couple years ago I noticed that it seems to have fixed itself. What really happened is it wore down and grew back so now it is about the same size as it was before I got hit in the mouth with a shovel. Maybe bigger.
I was shot in the face, about an inch under my left eye in February 25th, 1985. I refused painkillers. The bullet got deflected from the hard part of my head somehow and is still in my neck. It grazed some nerves and I had some tempomandibular problems for a while. But that is all over now. And I don't set off metal detectors, it was only a .38 they say from the Xrays.
I rolled a van. I was in the passenger seat of a 1975 Pontiac Grand Prix when it hit one of those BIG telephone poles (Brookpark Rd./Rte17) at over 50 MPH. I didn't make it all the way through the windshield but I certainly put a dent in it.
At no time did I ever ask for a painkiller. I learned that pain is what tells the brain to send resources to repair itself. And this was before my extensive research on the internet, didn't have any stinkin' internet !
You can manage most pain without drugs but most people are unwilling to even try. They gave me some a few years ago, tried a couple, didn't do shit so I gave them away. But some people do suffer and really need them to function. However there is a price.
If you got arthritis in the knees and painkiller allow you to put more stress on them than they can take, it hurts you in the long run.
Addiction is not universal, as you said. I know a guy who can do heroin on Friday night, have a good time and then forget all about it and be at work Monday no problem. I can do coke and the next day have no desire for it. It is not that I feel so bad or anything, it is just that I done did it now step away and leave it alone. (I never tried heroin) I know another guy who actually was a crackhead, but now does it about once a month.
I am almost ready to call those addictive personalities immature. Almost, not quite. There are too many other factors. If someone uses drugs to cover up emotional issues, I think they are the ones who get addicted. But really, if you think about it, that is NOT recreational drug use. That is hiding from yourself. I have known people who did that. Two of the broke a coke addiction, ummm, three now that I think of it. They literally grew out of it from what I can tell. I never had the problem because I don';t like the shit that much. Haven't doe it in probably five years, maybe more, and have no plans to. And I have been offered, for free.
Anyway, back to this guy in the Philippines. Anywhere you go, when people are dealing in illegal merchandise, sometimes they have to do nasty things to stay in business. I have nothing against drug dealers. If they start trying to claim turf and all that shit maybe, but most just give you their phone number and you meet them and nothing happens. You pay, get your shit, go home and catch a buzz. No victi, no crime.
There IS a problem with people who get so addicted that they have to go out and steal, maybe even kill to get it.
So we are back where we started. I have the right to put anything I damnwell please into my body. But if certain other people do the same thing they will go out and hurt people. That is a BIG problem, but the bottom line is that they have no right to take away my rights because of what others do. Where does the Constitution say that ? My rights cannot be taken away but by due process, and some guy on the other side of the country beating or killing someone to get a fix is not fucking due process.
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