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kestrelx -- Great post about sugar !


The problem with drugs is that they are generally misunderstood by people that have never taken them,

I know a bit about drugs because obviously I have taken them. I have Smoked cannabis(and ate), Dropped LSD, boiled magic mushrooms and have taken speed. I have been around people at various parties where people have-- taken ketamine, cocaine, ecstasy.... list goes on a little I don't remember everything. I've seen people take legal highs too.

When I worked at time computers some pakistani guys from nelson was smoking crack. I never spoke to those guys again. I avoided them at all costs.

Drug users fall into several categories

#1 Drug user with morals.
#2 Drug user with no morals whatsoever
#3 Drug user who will take anything to get high (which both come from either 1) or 2) )


It is of my opinion that the bad things people do on drugs(or without them to get them) they would probably do these things anyway. Softer drugs don't people make people a bad person. Hard drugs(crack, heroin and speed(i also class speed as a hard drug) These drugs, well that's another story and I personally would never entertain anybody that takes them. Some people that started taking the harder drugs were probably younger and was not aware of how bad they are, or they are of #3 variety and got hooked

Cannabis does not make you into a bad person. Anybody that thinks it does is stupid and ignorant. If any drug should be legal its this one. It being legal does not mean you have to smoke it. The government wont push it because in most cases it opens minds.

The reason that I gave up taking drugs.

The people you have to buy them off are almost always of the #2 variety. I have found in most cases they are from broken homes or of poor upbringing, In some cases they are just mental cases. If you have a history of mental illness-- Taking amphetamines is probably not a good idea. To buy them you I often have to go to a house where there is around 10 people hanging out and of least 7/8 of them would be of them would be the #2 variety. They are nutters to say the least.

Amphetamines(Speed) is probably one of the worst drugs out there. I have seen this terrible drug do terrible damage. A former friend once cut his wrists while his baby was crawling on the floor in the kitchen, he started robbing houses and his friends. My theory is that you cannot trust a person who is hooked on speed. You see a drug user that is on speed. They will be skinny, pale, skanky and have hardly any teeth.

When I smoked cannabis I was convinced for a while that alcohol was evil.

Cannabis can take over your life a little. What I have found to be true with cannabis and depression is this-- If you already have a depressive nature or you are depressed to begin with then don't touch it. Its more about how you think and how you are as a person how the drug reacts to you. You often hear of people saying "I was paranoid"

Going back to drug users and how people throw them into the same boat with ignorant comments--

Imagine a group of youths in a field smoking cannabis and a heroin addict comes along and sits down and starts injecting. Do you think that the 'druggies' say to the heroin addict "come on dude your welcome with us mannnn" It is ignorant to think that the heroin addict would be welcome. Not a chance that person would be welcome. He would be kicked to the kerb faster than you can say the words smack head.

This is the problem with drugs. If you smoke cannabis you must also be of the same stock as a heroin addict.

I know that people get their ridiculous opinions from television. Only the other day, on a half day holiday from work I saw a tv program called 'doctors' and a woman was saying to a kid " you see that person who is on the street unconscious and covered in vomit-- they are smoking the cannabis " -- If you believe this then you are the most ignorant person in the world.

All I do now is drink alcohol. But I have seen people who drink alcohol do terrible things on a weekly basis.

The legal high that was just made illegal is even worse for being dangerous "bubble" is a very good reason why drugs should be illegal. Too many kids have died recently from taking this.

I am not advocating the use of drugs but addicts need to be seen as people that need help and not the scum of the earth(though some of them obviously are). Legalizing them may help a little but its counter productive I think, though It would be safer for these people as well. But then the dealers will always move on to some other criminal activity, because they will always be immoral with or without drugs.

I am not ashamed of my past with drugs but I am proud to say I don't take them any more and that I won't have bad things spoken about (some) of my past friends by people that are ignorant and ill-informed and who generally don't research into something before they blab on and make judgements.

So knowing what I do about drugs I would say that cannabis should be legalized. The other drugs I would have to disagree