legalize drugs ?????

pandora wrote:

mikepegg44 wrote:

They are being used and abused. Their brains do not understand consequence until age 25
by then the damage done is massive, if they are still breathing that is.

where do you get this from? I understood consequences long before 25...I think it happened around the time I touched a hot stove and burned myself after being simply told not to touch it...might as well make that behavior illegal too.

just google this well known brain fact ...

That was a great warning ... a burned hand.
I didn't have to burn my hand to know better, my Mama taught me HOT! :P

Mama taught me many things, I was one of the lucky ones. Many don't have Mama's like mine.

Obviously we can't rely on parents alone to teach and produce flawless human beings.
We also can't write off the children who don't know better. That would be a cold cruel thing to do.

Laws to protect are needed.

what I am saying to you is it isn't irrefutable fact. I knew consequences of actions long before 25. I am willing to be MOST people do. As was pointed out earlier, you have made a gross overstatement on the facts surrounding your claim.

ALSO, bringing drug users into the criminal justice system simply for using or forcing their behavior into the dark through social stigma and mis-education is writing off children who don't know better...Thanks for proving my point.

So-called, 'Bath Salts' are NOT legal drugs. The makers are working around the legal system by labeling them as 'Not For Human Consumption' and sold as bath powder and/or insense. It is a method to circumvent the system, including the FDA, and allow the over the counter sale of them.
Of course, everyone knows that these items are being bought buy people to get high. They are basically a non-regulated drug concoction like any other non-ingestible topical herbal remedy.
The arguement that it is legalized drugs is ridiculous. It is the same as trying to argue that Krylon spray paint is a legalized drug because people sniff it to get a buzz. It is not the intended use.
The problem with the liquor store bath salts is that its makers know that people are ingesting the stuff, but can hide behind the legal system by saying, "It says right there on the label... Do not eat this shit." The same way a bong can be sold legally because it can be used to smoke tobacco... but, when do you think the last time someone bought a bong to smoke Bugler tobacco?
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It amazes me on how fucking hard up people are on catching a buzz. Haven't these fucks heard about alcohol or pot? I mean, sniffing fucking paint or taking some shit made by some amateur chemist in Palmdale to get high? Or licking the belly of a toad... which brings me to another thing. Who the FUCK was the fucking psycho who found out licking a toad's belly will get you high? How hard up was THAT asshole?

Cosmo wrote:

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It amazes me on how fucking hard up people are on catching a buzz. Haven't these fucks heard about alcohol or pot? I mean, sniffing fucking paint or taking some shit made by some amateur chemist in Palmdale to get high? Or licking the belly of a toad... which brings me to another thing. Who the FUCK was the fucking psycho who found out licking a toad's belly will get you high? How hard up was THAT asshole?

it's because the current buzz of choice is no longer working for them, so they have to try something harder. that's why some argue that pot is a gateway drug. but that's an overgeneralization. I'd bet the majority of pot users are pot users for life, but there is a small percentage that NEED to be completely fucked up and have to move onto something harder to get the buzz they want. it's not the drug that no longer works, it's that they are looking for a harder buzz.

same thing with booze. you don't see many hardcore alcoholics drinking beer. because they switch to hard stuff straight up.