Do you think there is too much propaganda and scare mongering about drug use?

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I have to wonder if out of all those who use drugs… how many actually succumb to abusing drugs 🤷‍♀️🤔

Lliam · Accepted Answer

I selected 'A'. Here's my story.
When I was 11 or 12, hippie culture was gaining notoriety. My sister and I were fascinated by the long hair, clothes, and psychedelic art.

In 7th or 8th grade, they held some drug education seminars at school. Cops came in and talked all about the pills that were around at the time - reds, yellows, rainbows, white crosses, black beauties. They showed ridiculous movies about LSD with psychedelic effects.

Honestly, the seminars only served to make me curious. I hadn't heard of that stuff before. But I didn't trust authority. I could recognize scare tactics. And what happens when you tell a kid not to try something?

They even put some marijuana in a metal sieve, lit it, and passed it around so that we would be able to recognize the smell.

All this, when alcohol, tobacco, and pharmaceuticals were the drugs of choice for everyday Americans.

So that's the effect that propaganda and scare mongering had on me.

When I started high school, I started going to parties and getting drunk. But I didn't care that much for the taste of alcohol and I tended toward severe sickness and hang overs, so I never became a heavy drinker.

I tried cigarettes but they made me dizzy and nauseous, so I stayed away from them.

Pot, on the other hand was fun. Once I realized how benign it was, I questioned the other propaganda I had heard.

So I went on to try other things. Uppers and downers weren't that thrilling. Various psychedelics -LSD, mescaline, psilocybin (shrooms), peyote - were really interesting. I had some amazing experiences and some that weren't totally pleasant.

Cocaine wasn't much of a thrill, either. And it was expensive.

I never went near heroin because I did believe that it was physically addictive like alcohol and I didn't want that to happen to me. And I never ever considered injecting anything.

In the end, I tried everything, mainly to settle my curiosity. But I didn't get addicted or even get into a habit. I did know people who got really into drug use, particularly coke and crack. And a good friend wound up overdosing on heroin several years later. I just figured that was their business; their choice. I had already distanced myself from druggies even though I kept smoking weed for a few years.

Weed was a social drug like alcohol. In movies and on TV, the first thing a person would do when a guest arrived was to offer them a drink. It was the same with weed. People would share. Anyone who fired up a doobie passed it around. And it was easier than alcohol to carry around or sneak into places like concerts or amusement parks.

I don't believe in gateway drugs. I think some people have obsessive or addictive personalities. And some people make unwise choices. That's no reason for a "war" on drugs that ruins more lives than do the drugs themselves.

Nixon started the official "war on drugs", not out of concern for drug users, but as a way of targeting minorities (primarily blacks and Mexicans) and anti war activists.

Finchie40 · Accepted Answer

My thing is we are all going to die of something so I live my life pretty much based off of will power meaning I try not to go overboard with anything and pretty much know when to stop myself and know my limit for the most part I am not always accurate but for the most part I try to balance myself and know my limits, people that die off of drugs are people that have no will power they don’t know when to stop themselves which to me is a disease itself that is making them want more and more , an addiction , so if you need something all the time, then yes you have a problem , I want sex all the time , if I die from sex I don’t think I would be that upset lol , My older brother passed away because he was addicted to cocaine , / crack , he was addicted , so he ended up dying of a heart attack , I know people that haven’t touched drugs at all and still died from something internally , so no matter what we do we are Going to die of something , so the way I live my life is trying to control myself best I can without going overboard an anything , I made it this far so I must be doing something right lol I do like to smoke weed on occasion , I like to drink beer on the weekends, I don’t do hard core drugs I have sampled some mainly in my younger years but never got addicted to any of Them like a lot of people do , so if you don’t know when to stop yourself then yes you have a problem if you are allowing a substance to take over your own self then you should definitely seek help or listen to someone that is telling you you have a problem that is seeing you fucked up all the time , so Nothing we really do is healthy for us when someone tells me they eat clean because it’s healthy doesn’t know what they are
Talking about it Means shit , it might help you lose weight but it doesn’t mean it is healthy , I know people that died off of eating lettuce and onions so is that healthy? I know people that exercised daily and watched what they ate and still died from internal conditions so I don’t listen to all That nonsense , to me it’s a money making gimmick and a way to get people to follow a certain way of living , it keeps doctors paychecks coming , pharmaceutical
Companies in business, Food companies in business etc. social media was designed as a money making tool , instead of salesman showing up at your doorstep trying to convince you to a buy a piece of shit vacuum they are trying to convince us over our phones , so I try to steer away from that nonsense as much as possible , I honestly think I got sick more off of food I ate over drinking beer , no lie , So what is really healthy for us?

Hannajenky · Accepted Answer

Yes, absolutely. People who are against drugs no matter what are fucking idiots and are not really important to the conversation. There are and have been and always will be drugs and people will use them and there’s nothing anyone can do about it. And if you disagree not only are you an idiot as I already said your opinion isn’t worth a pile of dog shit

Agape93 · Accepted Answer

Depends on the drug and the person. I'm just fine but I also don't do anything hard like meth or cocaine

exitseven · Answer

I never really used drugs. I have never smoked pot. I saw a lot of people get really messed up. When I grew up acid and speed were everywhere. I saw kids change after taking acid just a couple of times. It was like they just didn't give a damn about anything except for drugs. They would talk about taking drugs and getting more drugs and stopped doing the normal stuff that we did. Some had their lives derailed by this stuff. One friend changed his mind about going to college because college was for losers. He instead had a job working at a nursery so he could grow his own pot. I saw a kid I worked with running bare ass down the street, tripping his ass off. I thought it made them docile sort of like having a lobotomy. This stuff disappeared for a long time and it is disturbing to see it making a comeback. The guys that you should ask this question to is the county sheriffs. These are the guys that run the jails and they will tell you that 90% of the people in jail for drug crimes started by smoking pot. I know that everyone wants people to think they are cool but I am glad I never got involved with that stuff and I married somebody who shared my values.

Makeushiver · Answer

Its insane. Nixon started the war on drugs back in 1970. All it did was to encourage crime since drugs couldn't be purchased in a safe place. Studies have shown that very little use of drugs is stopped by the draconian laws saved by truing thus into a police state for drugs. Look at alcohol. It is by far the most toxic to living tissue, it has by a long shot led the country in ancillary violence like domestic abuse The opiate fiasco is ridiculous. For 2 decades or more it was physicians bible to stay ahead of the pain which requires more initial dose but less later since the pain never got out of control. I don't think there should be any laws against psychedelics. They are harmless when kept from military and hells angels. Maybe narcotics shouod be cintrolled but the DEA should be disbanded. On another note, may I ask in what state you are a resident I saw your username is something MILF and frankly the MILFs I've F'ed were are far site more fun than most others

Fireguy17 · Answer

no, not at all.
I get to see firsthand what drugs can do to people.
We have a frequent flyer that we have brought back to life 17 or 18 times so far.
Now she is starting to have other issues when we bring the person back.
Someday we/they won't be that lucky.
It affects more than just the person that is doing the drugs.
We had an overdose death on Mother's Day a few years back at their parents' house.
Nothing says I love you Mom more than I just overdosed on your special day and died.
Maybe I see too many of the same stories over and over again, young people just end up dying, or almost dying from drugs.
It is such a waste, while we have other patients that are just trying to stay alive.
It just makes no sense at all anymore.

ZXCwWRQWz · Answer

I went B but I mostly don't see it as a big deal. The worst drug I'm struggling with is alcohol.

In fairness, I'm so averse to dealing with drug dealers that all the harder drugs that I've drugs which include speed, meth, cocaine, and heroin, were often like one-time things.

But at the very least just trying these things one time didn't turn me into an addict. I think I would have been if I had access all the time. But I was lazy about access; only being the time down to try whatever people had at a party without bringing my own drugs.

But I became addicted to alcohol since that's so easy to access even with my allergy to dealing on the streets with gangsters. So alcohol is still worse to me than even heroin or cocaine or meth even though I've tried all three and society makes them sound like the worst things ever.

NathanDavis · Answer

obviously not the majority of drug users or those who have used drugs will succumb to heavy use and addiction

just like it doesn't happen either with tobacco and alcohol, weed...

personally, I just avoid all of those and I won't even try them because my brain is already weird enough, and I would not want to find out that I have of those brains that are susceptible... lol

socair · Answer

I don't care who does what to themselves by using whatever substance be it legal to possess or not
What I do care about is when Junkies and the like smoke their shit in places where non users have to endure the smell of it.
FACT... If you can smell it you are inhaling it.
As the means for detecting whether or not someone is driving under the influence get better it means that just by having smelled a junkie's shit... you could get a driving ban for having dope in your body without even knowing it

Heolurt · Answer

Depends on the drug. Hard drugs that affect your mentality permanently like meth or crack etc. Need more fear mongering.
The only time in my life a female or anyone has ever told me they loved me, and I knew it was a blatant lie, was when a girl I liked but she had told me many times before that she thought a lot of negative things about me, she did drugs and she called me screaming and crying, saying she loved me and to come get her because her family was taking her to the psychiatric hospital because she started having schizo episodes.

es20490446e · Answer

I think that people that use drugs usually deceive them about how bad and addictive they can get.

For example weed is classified as addictive as heroin, and more than cocaine. But if you ask someone who consumes it, they will tell you it is less than tobacco.

KrakenAttackin · Answer

Some people can handle casual drug use, others can't. Crystal meth makes normal people out of their fucking minds, and very dangerous.

MementoMori777 · Answer

I gotta say the vaping in the morning 5 minutes after waking up isn't exaggerated, no more than 5 minutes you are already puffing

dolemite89 · Answer

i would have agreed with you before the fentanyl crisis but now i think people need to be warned nonstop, i had a friend mistakenly overdose and die from fentanyl when he thought he was just doing molly.

BoobMan · Answer

Given that fentanyl is on the scene now and it can (and does) end up getting cut into all SORTS of drugs, and given that it's SUPER easy to overdose and die on the stuff, I'd say probably not.

nolabels · Answer

I've struggled with addiction. Long, long, long story.

MCheetah · Answer

No to the question, and no to me being a druggie.

Guardian45 · Answer

Alcohol and tobaccos are drugs

Alex8736 · Answer

studies show its the pharmaceutical companies

Date_a_Snob · Answer

Don't do drugs. Period!

loveslongnails · Answer

That depends on the drugs.

douride2 · Answer

No and no.

jayhams · Answer

Duh.

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