After the lecture on drugs, I got thinking about the debate that usually pops up whenever drugs are mentioned; Should they be legalised? As I was growing up, I was probably more aware than most about drugs, as my parents have done drugs ever since I can remember, and they were always talking about how they should be legalised. Will it make it safer? Or will it encourage more and more people to try them? The way I see it, if they legalised drugs like cannabis and cocaine, and made them readily available like alcohol or cigarettes, they would be safer, to a certain extent. Obviously there would be an age limit on these too, but younger people would still try to get hold of them. Could it actually be any more dangerous than alcohol poisoning or lung cancer? At least if they were legalised they would be purer, and less harmful than getting it from some dodgy dealer down the street. This website is quite insightful; http://www.urban75.com/Drugs/drugten.html
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First of all, love that picture!
Having read this post it has made me think about the controversy about legalising cannabis. My mum lives in constant pain which will never go away. She takes regulated morphine four times a day which helps and sometimes has been treated like a junkie by doctors who should know better. My mum has never smoked doesn’t drink and would never touch drugs otherwise, however she knows lots of people who believe that small amounts of cannabis help them with their pain. The only time anyone else hears about these people is when they are being dragged from their homes (because grannies are very dangerous people) by teams of policemen because they have grown their own. The closest my mum got to cannabis was when her mate got her some to help with her pain. Mum said it was dirty, so no way was it going in a brownie, and she has never smoked in her life so it went in her incense burner in the house. Mum didn’t feel a thing but the dog was off her face for two days!
Ok so its funny, but surely its time to look at how people can benefit from drugs rather than letting people suffer.
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