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Re: Drugs dont hurt

Post by mealdeal » Sun Mar 24, 2019 8:37 am

You can go out and have a couple of pints or a great wine to actually enjoy the taste, as much as you can drink to get wasted. I can’t think of another drug that falls into that category.

Alcohol works on a different level to other ‘drugs’ in that there are two benefits, taste and effect. They can be enjoyed together or entirely independently.
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Re: Drugs dont hurt

Post by Jakubclaret » Sun Mar 24, 2019 8:47 am

mealdeal wrote:You can go out and have a couple of pints or a great wine to actually enjoy the taste, as much as you can drink to get wasted. I can’t think of another drug that falls into that category.

Alcohol works on a different level to other ‘drugs’ in that there are two benefits, taste and effect. They can be enjoyed together or entirely independently.
True, nearly all drugs have the potential to cause fatalities if mismanaged, which more often than not will also cause some sort of pain to the nearest & dearest.

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Re: Drugs dont hurt

Post by cricketfieldclarets » Sun Mar 24, 2019 8:52 am

Jakubclaret wrote:It can certainly have the potential to, people exist who have unfortunately pricked themselves with a needle, binmen not wearing PPE or young children picking 1 up not knowing any better.
I almost stood on one by the car in a public car park in manchester opposite the areana last week. After I spotted it noticed at least another 5 or so more. Some absoultely filthy. Also seen lots on burnley canal as well. :(

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Re: Drugs dont hurt

Post by cricketfieldclarets » Sun Mar 24, 2019 8:53 am

Jakubclaret wrote:True, nearly all drugs have the potential to cause fatalities if mismanaged, which more often than not will also cause some sort of pain to the nearest & dearest.
No you are wrong. Taking them apparently hurts nobody else. There is no emotional pain with watching someone you know take drugs. Even if they do or dont die

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Re: Drugs dont hurt

Post by Jakubclaret » Sun Mar 24, 2019 8:57 am

cricketfieldclarets wrote:I almost stood on one by the car in a public car park in manchester opposite the areana last week. After I spotted it noticed at least another 5 or so more. Some absoultely filthy. Also seen lots on burnley canal as well. :(
I can easily believe it, hence posting earlier about the needles & how people can be jabbed going about their daily business doesn't really apply to binmen or young children exclusively anybody can potentially be jabbed, junkies aren't renowned for sensibly discarding, needle exchanges as helped reducing.

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Re: Drugs dont hurt

Post by cricketfieldclarets » Sun Mar 24, 2019 9:00 am

Jakubclaret wrote:I can easily believe it, hence posting earlier about the needles & how people can be jabbed going about their daily business doesn't really apply to binmen or young children exclusively anybody can potentially be jabbed, junkies aren't renowned for sensibly discarding, needle exchanges as helped reducing.
It was weird. It was a bit of a crappy car park and we were parked in the corner which was s mess. I thought i bet theres allsorts of **** here when i get out. Yep. I was right. Fortunately i looked down.

As for the canal. I didnt necessarily expect to see it there. Again luckily I did. A good few of them.

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Re: Drugs dont hurt

Post by Chuckypad » Sun Mar 24, 2019 9:06 am

They also provide the inspiration to some great songs:

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Re: Drugs dont hurt

Post by TheFamilyCat » Sun Mar 24, 2019 9:07 am

I worked at a college in Bradford, we had a disposal box on site because there were so many needles found outside the building. Our maintenance bloke went round every morning picking them up. Shocking state of affairs.

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Re: Drugs dont hurt

Post by mdd2 » Sun Mar 24, 2019 9:22 am

If alcohol and tobacco appeared now for the first time they too would be banned.
Personally I think legalising drugs should occur but the problem would be that if we taxed them like booze and cigs there would still be the uncontrolled muck coming onto our streets much like we have with illicit booze and cigs although only a small proportion of the total.
Deaths like the lass quoted would still occur much as we have deaths from tobacco and alcohol.
There are however innocent victims from tobacco via passive smoke, alcohol and drugs via accidents and criminal behaviour.
All need some form of control and IMO legalising drugs offers the best chance of getting some control and reducing their harm

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Re: Drugs dont hurt

Post by evensteadiereddie » Sun Mar 24, 2019 9:23 am

Can't wait for the footy to start again.

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Re: Drugs dont hurt

Post by taio » Sun Mar 24, 2019 9:27 am

Plenty of examples where a third party has been harmed by someone performing the actual act of drug taking.
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Re: Drugs dont hurt

Post by Bosscat » Sun Mar 24, 2019 11:11 am

Watched an interesting "How do they do that" last night.

One of the items was "Drug testing kits" they mentioned one of a number of things that drugs such as cocaine was being mixed with ... and that was "Washing Powder" ....

Ffs save your hard earned and buy a box of Persil to stick up your nose 5kg at Morrisons for a fiver :D insted of a tenner for a gramme behind the Brownhill Urrms Pub in the Curr Purrk.... at least you would be keeping your nose clean ;)

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Re: Drugs dont hurt

Post by Imploding Turtle » Sun Mar 24, 2019 11:27 am

Jakubclaret wrote:It can certainly have the potential to, people exist who have unfortunately pricked themselves with a needle, binmen not wearing PPE or young children picking 1 up not knowing any better.
So. Can. Alcohol.

I feel like i'm going in circles with you people trying to explain a really basic thing.

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Re: Drugs dont hurt

Post by Bosscat » Sun Mar 24, 2019 11:33 am

Imploding Turtle wrote:So. Can. Alcohol.

I feel like i'm going in circles with you people trying to explain a really basic thing.
Proof then as "The Verve" sang that "The drugs don't work" ;)

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Re: Drugs dont hurt

Post by cricketfieldclarets » Sun Mar 24, 2019 11:53 am

Imploding Turtle wrote:So. Can. Alcohol.

I feel like i'm going in circles with you people trying to explain a really basic thing.
Nobody. Disputes. That.

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Post by cricketfieldclarets » Sun Mar 24, 2019 11:55 am

Bosscat wrote:Watched an interesting "How do they do that" last night.

One of the items was "Drug testing kits" they mentioned one of a number of things that drugs such as cocaine was being mixed with ... and that was "Washing Powder" ....

Ffs save your hard earned and buy a box of Persil to stick up your nose 5kg at Morrisons for a fiver :D insted of a tenner for a gramme behind the Brownhill Urrms Pub in the Curr Purrk.... at least you would be keeping your nose clean ;)
Its almost hilarious. People spending 100s a weekend sniffing washing powder and benzocaine.

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Re: Drugs dont hurt

Post by bartonscigar » Sun Mar 24, 2019 12:06 pm

Spijed wrote:One things certain though, drugs have nowhere near the same damaging affect that alcohol does!

Utter nonsense as someone who has taken cocaine i can assure it has left a long lasting affect and left me with debilitating anxiety. Alcohol has no affect on me but the drugs did its different for everyone ive never taken it since and i never will but some days im fine others are a struggle i was absolutely fine before i took it

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Re: Drugs dont hurt

Post by Imploding Turtle » Sun Mar 24, 2019 12:11 pm

bartonscigar wrote:Utter nonsense as someone who has taken cocaine i can assure it has left a long lasting affect and left me with debilitating anxiety. Alcohol has no affect on me but the drugs did its different for everyone ive never taken it since and i never will but some days im fine others are a struggle i was absolutely fine before i took it
I'm pretty sure he was talking about society at large, and not literally every single person.

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Re: Drugs dont hurt

Post by Imploding Turtle » Sun Mar 24, 2019 12:12 pm

cricketfieldclarets wrote:Nobody. Disputes. That.
And yet alcohol is legal, but drugs shouldn't be because drugs are bad for you and for others around you, just like alcohol.

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Re: Drugs dont hurt

Post by Jakubclaret » Sun Mar 24, 2019 3:03 pm

Imploding Turtle wrote:So. Can. Alcohol.

I feel like i'm going in circles with you people trying to explain a really basic thing.
Well if you stopped talking gibberish & becoming the riddle Meister, I understand perfectly what you are saying about drugs.

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Re: Drugs dont hurt

Post by mdd2 » Sun Mar 24, 2019 4:19 pm

I must say from my personal experience in one area of UK the damaging effects of alcohol and drugs on the individual seem about equal in numbers with perhaps drugs just ahead

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Re: Drugs dont hurt

Post by cricketfieldclarets » Sun Mar 24, 2019 4:36 pm

Imploding Turtle wrote:And yet alcohol is legal, but drugs shouldn't be because drugs are bad for you and for others around you, just like alcohol.
Its not the point though is it. Arguing drugs should be legal because alcohol is, is the most stupid logic ever.

Criminalising something which has been legal and a social norm for as long as it has would only cause bigger problems. See prohibition... but alcohol is a totally seperate debate. Yet pro drug users always use it as the argument.

Alcohol can be and almost always is fine in moderation. There are very few scenarios where that can be said of almost all drugs.

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Re: Drugs dont hurt

Post by pushpinpussy » Sun Mar 24, 2019 5:03 pm

this thread as not to be sniffed at

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Re: Drugs dont hurt

Post by Spijed » Sun Mar 24, 2019 5:09 pm

cricketfieldclarets wrote:Alcohol can be and almost always is fine in moderation. There are very few scenarios where that can be said of almost all drugs.
Is that really true?

Would the equivalent amount of heroin to a pint of beer or glass of wine be that dangerous?

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Re: Drugs dont hurt

Post by AndrewJB » Sun Mar 24, 2019 5:15 pm

cricketfieldclarets wrote:Its not the point though is it. Arguing drugs should be legal because alcohol is, is the most stupid logic ever.

Criminalising something which has been legal and a social norm for as long as it has would only cause bigger problems. See prohibition... but alcohol is a totally seperate debate. Yet pro drug users always use it as the argument.

Alcohol can be and almost always is fine in moderation. There are very few scenarios where that can be said of almost all drugs.
I’ve met quite a few people who take cocaine in moderation (and as a drug to enhance the enjoyment of a sunset after dinner, rather than how I see the it taken in the West - though I also know people in the West who take it in moderation). I know a lot of people who use marijuana in moderation, and the vast number of people I’ve known (probably 99%) who’ve Raven LSD and mushrooms take it in moderation (it’s said that tech execs in California take micro hits of LSD (less than one tenth of a hit) in order to stimulate creativity). I’d say Ecstasy is taken with greater moderation than alcohol in the U.K.

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Re: Drugs dont hurt

Post by Imploding Turtle » Sun Mar 24, 2019 5:56 pm

cricketfieldclarets wrote:Its not the point though is it. Arguing drugs should be legal because alcohol is, is the most stupid logic ever.

Criminalising something which has been legal and a social norm for as long as it has would only cause bigger problems. See prohibition... but alcohol is a totally seperate debate. Yet pro drug users always use it as the argument.

Alcohol can be and almost always is fine in moderation. There are very few scenarios where that can be said of almost all drugs.
What kind of argument is that? You're using your own ignorant standards of what "in moderation" means and claiming that as why drugs should be illegal. That's dumb as ****.

There are plenty of drugs that when used in moderation are absolutely just as "fine" as alcohol. And there are some that it's really ******* difficult to overdose from.

There is absolutely no reason, other than tradition, to keep drugs criminalised. And yes, i can absolutely point to alcohol as a comparison for the point of demonstrating hypocrisy and i'll continue to do so until you or someone else actually makes a good argument demonstrating why that argument is a bad one. Because as yet you've offered **** all. Literally all you've said is that it's "the most stupid logic ever" without explaining why.

You should not be allowed to tell me what i can and can't do to my own body. When the government says that it's illegal for me to own and take drugs that's exactly what is happening - society dictating to me what i'm allowed to do with my own body.

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Re: Drugs dont hurt

Post by cricketfieldclarets » Sun Mar 24, 2019 8:38 pm

Imploding Turtle wrote:What kind of argument is that? You're using your own ignorant standards of what "in moderation" means and claiming that as why drugs should be illegal. That's dumb as ****.

There are plenty of drugs that when used in moderation are absolutely just as "fine" as alcohol. And there are some that it's really ******* difficult to overdose from.

There is absolutely no reason, other than tradition, to keep drugs criminalised. And yes, i can absolutely point to alcohol as a comparison for the point of demonstrating hypocrisy and i'll continue to do so until you or someone else actually makes a good argument demonstrating why that argument is a bad one. Because as yet you've offered **** all. Literally all you've said is that it's "the most stupid logic ever" without explaining why.

You should not be allowed to tell me what i can and can't do to my own body. When the government says that it's illegal for me to own and take drugs that's exactly what is happening - society dictating to me what i'm allowed to do with my own body.
:lol:

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Re: Drugs dont hurt

Post by tim_noone » Sun Mar 24, 2019 8:47 pm

cricketfieldclarets wrote::lol:
That's a Dissapointing response. :roll:

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Re: Drugs dont hurt

Post by cricketfieldclarets » Sun Mar 24, 2019 8:49 pm

tim_noone wrote:That's a Dissapointing response. :roll:
The drugs have worn off and im not feeling very creative.

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Re: Drugs dont hurt

Post by Imploding Turtle » Sun Mar 24, 2019 8:52 pm

cricketfieldclarets wrote::lol:

If you ever wonder why people disrespect your opinions, or don't put in the effort to explain theirs, remember that this is how you responded when I took the time to explain mine to you.

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Re: Drugs dont hurt

Post by cricketfieldclarets » Sun Mar 24, 2019 8:59 pm

Imploding Turtle wrote:If you ever wonder why people disrespect your opinions, or don't put in the effort to explain theirs, remember that this is how you responded when I took the time to explain mine to you.
:lol: :lol:

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Re: Drugs dont hurt

Post by Imploding Turtle » Sun Mar 24, 2019 9:02 pm

cricketfieldclarets wrote::lol: :lol:
I tried to help you, but whatever.

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Post by Bosscat » Sun Mar 24, 2019 9:06 pm

Imploding Turtle wrote:I tried to help you, but whatever.
I have some spanners in my tool box that were named after you Turtle....

http://primetools.co.uk/brands/king-dic ... QYQAvD_BwE" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

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Re: Drugs dont hurt

Post by Imploding Turtle » Sun Mar 24, 2019 9:08 pm

Bosscat wrote:I have some spanners in my tool box that were named after you Turtle....

http://primetools.co.uk/brands/king-dic ... QYQAvD_BwE" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
I haven't named anything after you.

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Re: Drugs dont hurt

Post by grapidianclaret » Mon Mar 25, 2019 5:18 pm

cricketfieldclarets wrote:Nobody disputes that.

But what people overlook when they do this comparison is that alcohol is regulated, manufactured in a controlled and managed environment etc.

Its moderation.

You cant talk about drugs in the same way. Because they are produced, and cut and sold in a way that gives no **** about what goes into it. Selling some **** illlegaly based on weight? Just fill it full of ****.

Nobody will pretend alcohol is good for you. But it is lile anything - fine in moderation.

You cant have drugs in moderation as youve zero idea whats in it in the first place.
That looks like a well thought out argument for legalizing drugs.
Well done that man!!!

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Re: Drugs dont hurt

Post by grapidianclaret » Mon Mar 25, 2019 5:22 pm

The food and drug administration over here in the states have just okayed large scale testing of LSD for helping with several mental illnesses. The earlier tests showed some of the most effective results of any clinical trials ever held in the USA.
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Re: Drugs dont hurt

Post by tim_noone » Mon Mar 25, 2019 5:49 pm

Just off the top of my head i know three people 40 26 and 19 years of age their heads .....ed by skunk and the fashionable drug. You cant hold a conversation with any of them.Amen

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Re: Drugs dont hurt

Post by DCWat » Mon Mar 25, 2019 6:24 pm

If I thought that legalisation would put a stop to misuse, overdoses and associated crime, I couldn’t think of many reasons to be against it being legalised.

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Post by AndrewJB » Mon Mar 25, 2019 6:36 pm

grapidianclaret wrote:The food and drug administration over here in the states have just okayed large scale testing of LSD for helping with several mental illnesses. The earlier tests showed some of the most effective results of any clinical trials ever held in the USA.
Prohibition has obstructed medical research in many ways. Elements in marijuana have been shown to be efficacious in treating various symptoms for many diseases, and if it hadn't been illegal it's more likely we'd understand how it works better by now. LSD was used by some palliative care hospitals in the US in the '60s and found to be effective in helping people come to terms with their impending deaths.

Scandalous that so many relatively innocent drugs (it's easier to overdose and die on coffee - about seventy cups - than it would be to overdose on THC - about two thousand joints), are denied to people due to right-wing-nanny-staters, who since they can no longer interfere in your sex life and prohibit you from getting together with someone from the same sex, now focus their attentions on other areas people like to have fun. And it's scandalous that a drug we absolutely know kills tens if not hundreds of millions around the world every year (nicotine), is freely available for purchase in most countries, and the profits of which are still allowed to accrue in private hands.
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Re: Drugs dont hurt

Post by grapidianclaret » Mon Mar 25, 2019 6:40 pm

People have used drugs for millennia. Humanity will use them for as long as the human race exists. There will always be people who will die as a result of such use. More likely fewer with legalization than prohibition. Each to his own. But prohibition has not and does not work. People die from the act of putting slippers on in the morning, they are crushed to death by stoves or refrigerators. A common thread in early demise , when it isn't caused by disease, is age and stupidity. Stupidity does not grow smaller as the human race develops, it seems to grow bigger. Alcohol kills more people in first world countries than other drugs. When it was prohibited in the USA, those deaths did not decline, they increased ,for many reasons.
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Re: Drugs dont hurt

Post by ontario claret » Mon Mar 25, 2019 6:48 pm

The more IT posts, the more he proves what an idiot he is. I grew up with an alcoholic mother. Being Danish, she drank in such a way that she thought nobody noticed. Well, I did, and so did my other four siblings. We all adjusted by going our own separate 5 ways. We are so far apart these days that only a pure miracle would bring us together. Recently, she told me that her drinking had never had an effect on anybody. She could never had been more wrong.

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Re: Drugs dont hurt

Post by Pstotto » Mon Mar 25, 2019 6:52 pm

I had free cosmology until I was persuaded to read books on esoteric cults which are designed to chime and usurp drug experience for political franchises of oppression and can be very dangerous in a particular social milieu, the vampirism of yoga, Buddhism, Zen and Hinduism which seek to imply obligations around drug experience sowing seeds of psychosis for psychosis creationism, such as the Lama Foundation in California and Sammye Ling in Scotland, viral parasitic evil masquerading as something else, no peace and relaxation in those cults, so far they've succeeded genocide by proxy via damning the considerate minds who have stopped breeding in a trauma and guilt not of their making, dying clubs for California and all that from the Mossad or CIA agents perhaps, Ram Dass etc. Chinese and Indian gov. anti-Western alliance of some sort, feminism and the LGBGT movement the next catastrophic advance of the social cancer against the norm, be politically correct and dumb down and all hail the choo choo coming of the bridge building of over the river kwai for the mass babel of the demented.

Maybe those types are anti-drug government agents, using psychologies of self-destruction to rid society of a social stratum via mass suicide and no breeding,

It's sit down shut up and open your mind and say AAAAAAAAAA.

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Re: Drugs dont hurt

Post by ontario claret » Mon Mar 25, 2019 7:38 pm

Why does Denmark, which is considered by some to be some kind of Utopia on earth, also lead the world in suicides? Oh, melancholy Dane!!!

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Re: Drugs dont hurt

Post by grapidianclaret » Mon Mar 25, 2019 7:42 pm

ontario claret wrote:Why does Denmark, which is considered by some to be some kind of Utopia on earth, also lead the world in suicides? Oh, melancholy Dane!!!
I blame hans christian andersen

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Re: Drugs dont hurt

Post by Bosscat » Mon Mar 25, 2019 8:26 pm

grapidianclaret wrote:I blame hans christian andersen
I blame Brexit :roll:

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Re: Drugs dont hurt

Post by AndrewJB » Mon Mar 25, 2019 8:45 pm

ontario claret wrote:The more IT posts, the more he proves what an idiot he is. I grew up with an alcoholic mother. Being Danish, she drank in such a way that she thought nobody noticed. Well, I did, and so did my other four siblings. We all adjusted by going our own separate 5 ways. We are so far apart these days that only a pure miracle would bring us together. Recently, she told me that her drinking had never had an effect on anybody. She could never had been more wrong.
You’re personalising what IT has said, and taking it out of context. Nobody will argue that drugs (including alcohol), or even extreme sports, or working too much doesn’t have what you might call.collaterl damage - however his point was more limited than that.

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Re: Drugs dont hurt

Post by ontario claret » Tue Mar 26, 2019 10:29 pm

Did I read what he posted in the wrong way? I assumed that he meant smoking was bad because it affects those in nearby attendance, while injectable drugs and alcohol aren't "shared" with the imbiber. But the effects of all mind-altering choices are shared with all who share their close acquaintenance.
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Re: Drugs dont hurt

Post by ontario claret » Tue Mar 26, 2019 10:35 pm

H. C. Andersen (that's what he's called in Denmark), was more of a moral fableist that many people realize. But the real creator of the modern Denmark was a chap named Brandes. He took on the arch-conservative Denmark of his time, and had a tremendous influence on writers such as Isak Dinesen, who was considered a literal witch by some, and the greater literate Danish society.

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Re: Drugs dont hurt

Post by ontario claret » Tue Mar 26, 2019 10:56 pm

Here's a good one. When parliament was first created in Denmark (in 1848), all land-owners were allowed the vote, but only elected members of the Conservative party were allowed to be prime minister or sit in cabinet. This arrangement lurched along until there were only 7 elected Conservatives vs. approx. 148 members of the opposition. Then, things were changed.

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Re: Drugs dont hurt

Post by Hipper » Wed Mar 27, 2019 9:23 am

This documentary was shown a few weeks ago:

https://www.itv.com/presscentre/ep1week ... ee-spencer" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Clearly drugs do a lot of harm. They also do harm socially. Whether it's on the scale of alcohol I doubt. Alcohol is surely the most damaging drug socially, destroying marraiges etc..

Smoking, whilst damaging to health, has very limited social effects.

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