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#243
Ziltoid said:
Yeah I'm pretty open minded on most subjects, I was just being particularly curious about this one. For the record I've never smoked pot or take any type of drugs or smoked anything but cigars (rarely).

The thing is that The Union seemed just too good to be true, that's why I kind of started this thread.
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Good lad! :)

All forms of recreational self-medication are expensive wastes of time compared to the dividends of investing in one's health, creativity, and mind.

- A former chronic alcoholic & narcotics abuser (and current accomplished hypocrite).

:p
 
#244
Meh I believe social drinking and some other forms of self medication can benefit you socially, psycologically, and philosophically if used correctly. If abused, they can be harmful and I think finding the line between moderation and abuse would be much easier if certain substances were legal. I'm still surprised by people who haven't learned their tolerances for alcohol and hurt themselves consequently.
 
#245
bigblondeafro87 said:
Meh I believe social drinking and some other forms of self medication can benefit you socially, psycologically, and philosophically if used correctly. If abused, they can be harmful and I think finding the line between moderation and abuse would be much easier if certain substances were legal. I'm still surprised by people who haven't learned their tolerances for alcohol and hurt themselves consequently.
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I think that those statements contradict each other.
 
#247
Lurker79 said:
They do, addicts that OD and die on accident didn't necessarily want to kill themselves. They just wanted to get high.
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True. It's important to know that addicts are not the norm, however. They represent a small sampling of the population as a whole and the legal status of the substance they abuse has little to now impact on whether or not they abuse it. The impact it does have is to criminalize them for having an addictive personality and preventing them from being able to seek help without also being thrown in jail or otherwise more deeply stigmatized.

Addicts come in all shapes and sizes and what they abuse run the gamut of things that can and will be abused. Food, sex, the Internet, keeping pets... if it can be done, possessed, or otherwise controlled by a person it can also be abused. Making these things illegal does nothing more than make it convenient to remove these people from normal society so we don't have to deal with or think about how to really help them .
 
#250
tZer said:
Making these things illegal does nothing more than make it convenient to remove these people from normal society so we don't have to deal with or think about how to really help them .
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While I am a firm believer in personal responsibility, this is an interesting premise in that (for example) alcoholics sometimes cannot always successfully deal with it themselves, and thus the existence of AA, etc.
 

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