Drugs and Alcohol

[bimmers4life]

Why is that on all of the anti "drug and alcohol" posters strewn about elementry, middle and high school campus', are drugs seperated from alcohol and tobacco? Alcohol and tobacco are both drugs, but they are always presented as different or seperate from drugs when being explained to children.

Not suprisingly this false distintion from each other is also carried on through adulthood. I have to constantly to remind people my own age that alcohol is a drug, a potentially dangerous one, and that if they choose to drink are ingesting a drug. They are a drug user. Same with smoking cigarettes.

Smoking herb is less harmful than smoking cigarettes yet the way people view the two is that weed is a drug and cigarettes are just cigarettes. It's also this whole, one is legal but the other isn't, thing. I think that this distintion that is being perpetuated is harming our children. Kids get older and see that drinking and smoking are seperate from drugs and do not understand that they themselves can be just as dangerous if not more than most illegal drugs. They way the government has been skewing this information is fucked up. These kids need to hear how things really are. Anyone else feel like this?

[f u z z]

yeah, i love opiates and ecstacy! And or course some good cociane baby@E&%D

[uofom3]

Our country needs to become a lot more realistic about drug/alcohol use. That is all I am going to say in this thread. IBTL.

[PУCCKAЯ_e30ka]

I am not going to argue with anyone because I or anybody else on this forum lacks the information on all of those you mentioned... however I will say that cigarettes and alcohol are no more harmful then weed or anything else. Also, most of what is about to be in this thread are going to be strictly opinions, and it's kind of pointless to argue b/cause of that. Things about legal drugs and illegal drugs also have to do with all the posters in HS MS and so on... the things I said earlier about "no more harmful" is a my own fact.

[mtechnik]

yeah, the topic can be a lenghty debate. Every side (pro or contra/anti drug use) wants to win. I am Contra for the record.

[Il Duce]

Why is that on all of the anti "drug and alcohol" posters strewn about elementry, middle and high school campus', are drugs seperated from alcohol and tobacco?

same reason the electric car died. the big corporations who have the $$$ influence the gov't to make laws to discourage what they don't want to happen. don't even get me started. ahahah. ibtl.

[PУCCKAЯ_e30ka]

i suggest signing up on pro drug use forum and anti drug use forum and start this debate!

[Fidhle007]

The seperation of them comes from the legality. Basically one is "Use and get arrested" and the other two are "Use and get arrested until you reach a certain age, then just be careful..."

[Ray Smoodiver]

This will quickly turning into a shooting range, i'm staying clear.

But I will say this - E is worse for your brain than cocaine.

[joshh]

It's all about the lobbiests.

[LINUS]

It's all about the Benjamins.

Fixed that for you. No thanks necessary.

[808BMW]

Because alcohol and tobacco companies pay some damn good money to keep it seperated from "the bad stuff".
If all us stoners would stop buyin a bag for just 1 day and pitch our money together to the fat cats, we would be legal too.

[mikeedler]

super silver haze FTW!

[e30sd]

Imagine if they taxed weed. Shit, it's already the biggest cash crop around...

[iCleaks]

In no particular order-

Alcohol is different!!! One can enjoy a drink or two and not be drunk unlike other mind altering drugs, And no other drug is as reliable when one has the need to temperairily lower their standards.

Young people should be given unbaised and accurate information regarding drugs + alcohol so they can make informed decisions (see next section). They should also be warned about certian drug use rituals ie. "don't drink the bong water".

"Herb is less harmful than cigarettes" - spoken like a true stoner, or more likely, an anti-smoker. Weed comes with a whole host of problems for young users but I forget what they are.

With alcohol and cigarettes the Fed Govt primary concern has always been collecting taxes (remember the BATF). New York City's new trans fat law is brutally anti-stoner.

I haven't had a cigarette since April 14, 2006. I miss them.