classbhero wrote:
not one single comment on that? quite disapointed at our communitys want to be free to do what we enjoy. where are your balls guys and girls… well not girls…. hmmm come on.
most of us do want prohibition to end but TBH the people you need to get through to are the ordinary people on the street who don’t take any kind of drugs but currently feel threatened and intimidated by the actions of those who do.
You are speaking from the viewpoint of an enthusiastic young man who has not had any real negative life experiences from drugs – and TBH you come across as intelligent enough to be able to regulate your own use and not have any problems or to deal with them quickly when you do, in common with many of the users of this forum.
But – there has been a 16 year legacy of major drugs culture in Britain – in the late 80s/early 90s the rave scene moved drug taking out of the realm of obvious “hippy/alternative” types and popularised it for every youth in England.
For some it was a passing phase, for others they managed to regulate themselves, but for a significant minority they became addicted, committed crime to fund their habits or just due to the mental distrurbances that drugs can create (such as attacking people out of pure paranoia or comedown anger).
Even on this board there are people sharing some fairly harrowing experiences about how they started off on party drugs yet moved on to heroin. Some have committed serious crime to fund their habits; others have just put themselves and the others around them through hell.
More recently when cannabis became class C there were many pro-drug campaigners journos initially saying how good this was – until their teenage sons/daughters started caning it and becoming too stoned to study / do any other useful work or even started having mental health problems.
One of my relatives works in a local Emergency Department in his home city – he is training to be a paramedic and is often the first person who deals with patients. He always gets loads presenting at a weekend who have overdone the drugs and/or alcohol – up to 20 or so extra people who are otherwise healthy and need not be in hospital.
Another one of my relatives works in a NHS mental health unit and sees the “long term casualties” who have suffered mental problems from drugs. There are rather a large number in their late 20s and 30s, who started out with “club drugs”.
OK there was a bit of a lack of education in the early 90s but still people should exercise a bit of self-control if they don’t wish the nanny state to control them..
At the moment people binge too much on both drugs and alcohol and its often friends, familes, the NHS and even the cops who get left to pick up the pieces.
This is what wider society sees of drug use and that is why many people still wish prohibition to continue – it will take more than videos of spin but genuine efforts from drug users to show they can regulate their intake and not cause wider society any problems.
