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Originally Posted by kestrelx
Not you again  It doesn't matter whether what purpose it's for - it's still 500 deaths over 30! I think the issue you have is that you don't like the fact of someone taking a drug for recreational purposes! YET THOUSDANDS OF PEOPLE TAKE PRESCRIPTION DRUGS OUT OF HABIT AND A LOT ARE ADDICTED - society lets that go and pharmacutical companies are making Billions out of it! 
If I want to take a drug currently illegal - I should be allowed to! What politician has the moral right to stop me? |
I accept that some people are addicted to prescription drugs...but that does not give weight to your case to legalise illegal drugs. As for society letting it go....I think that is a misconception on your part. You can hardly blame the person who is addicted to prescription drugs - they did not choose to take the drugs for pleasure. They were prescribed the drugs by a doctor, legally,
for a medical complaint. The doctor must take some responsibility for this, and there is help for these people.
Some people have
addictive personalities and will become addicted to almost anything....tea, coffee, mints, coca-cola........but they won't go out and mug someone, or burglarise houses to get their fix......they won't killl someone so that they can get a cup of coffee.
Alcohol is different, in that it lower inhibitions and make people do things that they would not normally do. It is cheap, it is legal and it causes a heap of problems.
I'm sure that if it did not bring in so much revenue for the government it would be banned or at least severely restricted.......look at what they have done with tobacco.......made smokers into pariahs, made it so that people who smoke can do so only in their own home or in a lean to on the side of a pub
You are right about t he pharma companies.
I have never smoked, or taken drugs...other than the occasional paracetamol........I drink very little(an odd glass of wine with a meal if we go out - and I can take it or leave it)...
life gives me all the 'highs' I need.