I have become pretty much Pro Drug

[Taverner]

Pro-meds for kids. ADHD stunted me in school, and I'm seeing kids like me soar with Adderall.

Pro-meds for adults. I take Effexor and Welbutrin to combat my Adult ADHD. It works.

Pro-Recrational Meds for adults. As you know, I like to indulge in some of them. Again, it works.

Bottom line - America Wants Drugs. Give it to us. There is no immorality present in medicating ones problems.

Legalize all drugs.

Drugs are tools, not demons.

They allow some to navigate the "Farmer's" world that they couldn't otherwise.

They allow some to survive otherwise un-survivable circumstances.

Niacin will not let you do this.

Sweat Lodges will not let you do this.

Meditation, as beneficial as it is, will not let you do this.

Drugs will...

[HopeHoops]

1. Cool, man.

:hippie:

[no name no slogan]

2. Substitute "huffing paint" for "drug", and I'm right with you

:thumbsup:

[datasuspect]

9. substitute "banging a 20 cent piece of dope" for "huffing paint" and we're on

10-4

[applegrove]

3. I wish they would come out with definitive information as to whether weed

caused later mental health issues or whether it is safe, and just an example of people with mental health issues trying to cope using weed. I am against legalizing any drug that causes addiction really quick like meth or heroin.

I don't partake and did very little of the stuff as a teen and young adult (grass or hash maybe 6 times alltogether, shrooms 3 times). But I'm an alkie and would love to have something legal and recreational that I could do for fun. Just so long as it doesn't cause mental health issues in otherwise healthy individuals.

[Taverner]

5. 420 Has very few lasting effects

Check out the research - realize you don't have to smoke it

[Starbucks Anarchist]

7. It's nothing at all like meth or heroin.

[Taverner]

8. But even with those - its the impurities, not the drugs themselves

[no name no slogan]

10. I have a step brother whose mental issues were aggrivated by excessive weed smoking

I don't think the weed caused the problems, but I do know that self-medicating with marijuana did make a lot of his problems worse. He started out just smoking pot, but he moved on to hash and eventually on to stronger things like MDMA (ecstacy) and shrooms when the pot stopped providing him relief.

I am not sure of his exact diagnosis, but it is either schizophrenia or schizo-affective disorder. He started self-medicating with pot while he was at college, in his late teens/early 20s. Although I'm not a fan of marijuana, I don't think the pot caused his problems. But I think he did try to deal with them with pot instead of getting real psychiatric help, which may have saved him from where he's at now.

My step bro is in his late 20s and lives with his dad. Although he's held odd jobs in the past, he can't work right now, despite the fact that he's very intelligent and has a bachelor's degree. He's been in and out of treatment programs and halfway houses the last eight years and has a hard time functioning in society. His next stop is probably a state hospital of some sort.

I'm not anti-drug by any means. I take several drugs a day just so I can function normally (I have bipolar disorder, and that comes with the territory). However, I am not a fan of street drugs, as you never know what you're getting, regardless of where you buy them from.

Leave the prescriptions to the doctors. They have eight years of college/med school behind them, and probably know what they're doing moreso than some guy on the street.

[JonLP24]

12. People still find the drug even though it is illegal

It never stopped me. Hell give me a few hours and I can find some Meth and Coke.

Also it being illegal didn't make me stop, I just had a personal preference for weed.

However alcohol was much more damaging then meth or coke could ever be for me.

on edit: However keeping it illegal drives the business underground meaning you can't resolve disputes through lawsuits, advertising, etc. Many times people resort to violence. I can't even count the times someone walked off with my money thru a middle man.

[Sultana]

4. I wish I had Adderall

x(

[CreekDog]

6. Yes, if you make a straw man out of any position it will indeed look foolish

i would have a bit more pain without Ibuprofen, would you recommend surgery instead? :eyes:

[amitten]

11. I have a lil' problem with LSD, though, because of my friend.

Her brother was a perfectly sane and normal guy. In his mid-20's he started doing a lot of LSD. He eventually quit but apparently the effects stayed with him: he's been diagnosed with severe schizophrenia and drugs and therapy have only made him halfway normal (he basically sleeps all day, but no longer hallucinates). He spent years on the streets. I think some of the urban legends about LSD making you permanently nuts may actually be true.

Even though I'm sure it's exceedingly rare, it doesn't seem worth the risk.

[JonLP24]

13. When I was in high school

There was this guy who did all sorts of drugs but was normal like anyone else, overtime though started regulary started using LSD and lost it. One time I saw him in class staring at the floor for no paticular reason. One time I saw him wandering in the hall ways and into wrong classrooms. However I known people that used a few times every once in a blue moon and they're normal like anyone use. But constant abuse of most drugs will have lasting effects but LSD is something else, I never tried it.

[Taverner]

14. Oh yeah, drugs can be dangerous. So can power tools. And cars

But the prohibition of said drugs does no good.