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Originally Posted by Eric
Tobacco is the bad one ... five and a half hours of surgery 4 years ago  Surgery I wouldn't have needed if I hadn't been a smoker.
Perhaps, as some have been suggesting by bringing in the "common sense" argument, it is not the drug that is so much the problem as the people involved with it. Maybe it's not so much common sense as it is self-control, and an awareness of what one is getting into, and where it could lead.
Alcohol is legal because the govt. makes a shltload of money out of it. Same with smokes. If they could come up with a sure fire way of making money off weed, they would be in there like a dirty shirt. |
The government could make money from legalising dope, by selling packets in chemists and taxing it in the same way as they do with tobacco. Also in last 20 years the most widely available kind of dope is Skunk. This is often 10 times more powerful than naturally grown dope and therefore has psychotic properties and is known for making some people mentally ill. So government policy is responsible for this situation as it's creating a situation in which gangs in the UK are farming skunk and the naturally grown dope is no longer available!
Also most Heroine abuse is with people who come from socially dysfunctional backgrounds. So the whole illegal Heroine/Smack/Methadone scene is based largely on social dysfunction.
