Alcohol more damaging than illegal drugs-study

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  • Hugh Freaking Dillon
    Hugh Freaking Dillon Posts: 14,010
    I think drug legalization needs to be a drug-by-drug basis, not a blanket "let's legalize everything!' sort of situation. too many different factors with each drug, you can't just legalize them all if you legalize one.
    unsung wrote:
    For all the effort major sports put into banning steroids I find it amusing that they are nearly last on this list.

    So would you pot supporters also favor legalizing steroids and X?
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  • Drowned Out
    Drowned Out Posts: 6,056
    Paul David wrote:
    and I agree with outofbreath. prohibition of substances leads to nothing more than MORE crime. Take the sales out of the wrong hands, then you take away their business.

    Legalize hard drugs? Can't say I'd be for that, but decriminlizing marijuana is a good step. Don't legalize it, just make it so it's like a traffic ticket. putting pot users in jail solves NOTHING.
    Decriminalizing doesn't take the money out of the hands of organized crime, it only legitimizes thier market.
    Where does that leave you? Raising penalties on growers and distributors....this is hypocritical, and if anything, escalates the drug war. making the stakes higher for the people with the most to lose is a good way to increase the associated violence as well.

    But yes...my body has been telling me for years that alcohol is harder on it than pretty much anything else :)

    Kel Varnsen wrote:
    This line in the story kind of bugged me. I mean of course alcohol when drunk in excess is dangerous. But when alcohol is drunk in moderation it actually has health benefits. On the other hand is it even possible to do heroin or crack in moderation, and if it was would there be any health benefits?
    Yes there are health/medicinal benefits to pretty much every drug. There may be BETTER drugs for that particular use, but you can say the same thing about the beneficial aspects of alcohol. Sure, it thins your blood, but so do a hundred other drugs. And yes it's possible to do any drug in moderation. I've never understood the theory of 'instant addiction'....in my experience, sleep cures that. If you wake up and do it again...you've got issues...MENTAL HEALTH issues....it can become a physical health issue....but it should remain a health issue, same as it is for the deadliest drugs of them all ;)
  • Hugh Freaking Dillon
    Hugh Freaking Dillon Posts: 14,010
    Drowned Out wrote:
    Paul David wrote:
    and I agree with outofbreath. prohibition of substances leads to nothing more than MORE crime. Take the sales out of the wrong hands, then you take away their business.

    Legalize hard drugs? Can't say I'd be for that, but decriminlizing marijuana is a good step. Don't legalize it, just make it so it's like a traffic ticket. putting pot users in jail solves NOTHING.
    Decriminalizing doesn't take the money out of the hands of organized crime, it only legitimizes thier market.
    Where does that leave you? Raising penalties on growers and distributors....this is hypocritical, and if anything, escalates the drug war. making the stakes higher for the people with the most to lose is a good way to increase the associated violence as well.

    excellent point. hadn't thought of it that way before.
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  • pandora
    pandora Posts: 21,855
    dunkman wrote:
    that scientist was drunk when he wrote that.
    :lol:
    the study took into account the effects on the entire health care system etc etc.
    The fact that booze is used by so many and abused by 1 in 10 people.
    Of course that makes it worse then, due to sheer numbers and the life long health and disease factors, then illegal drugs. Dumb study, like so many of them, hope the Docs weren't getting paid for that :lol:

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