Why do people do drugs?

[raghar]

But If you'd miss something inportand in your body and narcotics would cease problems with that or supply it, you could cure your problems - with narcotic. The bigest problem is with so called normal citisen. What could hurt "normal" citizen should be outlawed.
IIRC marihuana is effective against anorexy and stress. Coca is nice to cure chronical tireness problems. Or at least lessen them. And so on.
Anfetamin could be nice kickstart, but you must rest properly, and do security counter measures against adiciton.
(I don't think narcotics are "pure cure", but some narcotics are nice add on to real cure)
Bigger problem is with alcohol and caffe.

BTW is kava kava outlawed too?

[Felch]

I do drugs, but I don't mess with things that are addictive. I like to smoke pot, and hash (when I can get it), and take mushrooms and acid. But other things I shy away from, even alcohol for the most part, simply because I don't want to take anything that I'd have trouble living without.,

[Ben Kenobi]

I knew a person who died young from alcoholism, but that doesn't mean the rest of us need to avoid alcohol based on what he did to himself.

True, but what about other substances with greater potential for harm? What do you feel the role of the state is to regulate these substances?

Secondly, we also need to consider what effects our own use of alcohol will have on someone who is an alcoholic. If it helps him, as a friend, we should not drink in front of him.

[loinburger]

Originally posted by obiwan18
True, but what about other substances with greater potential for harm? What do you feel the role of the state is to regulate these substances?

Berzerker's a staunch Libertarian. I'd wager a fair amount of money that I can pinpoint the exact level of state regulation that he favors.

Secondly, we also need to consider what effects our own use of alcohol will have on someone who is an alcoholic. If it helps him, as a friend, we should not drink in front of him.

I'll certainly agree there, though to some extent it is also my alcoholic friend's job to avoid situations in which he knows that alcohol is going to be present. If he's going to a New Year's Eve party, then he needs to understand that the party's not going to change just because he's there. Friendship goes both ways -- we ought to make an effort not to tempt him, and he ought to make an effort to avoid temptation.

RE addictive personalities, they certainly exist -- it's no mistake that most of the people I know who have problems with excessive use of drugs also have problems with excessive gambling, excessive playing of video games, etc.

[Dis]

I'm not really sure what hashish is to be honest. I always figured it was like pot but stronger. Is that correct?

[loinburger]

That's what I always thought too.

[Drake Tungsten]

Three pages of drug talk and still no Zylka? He better be banned again or I'm going to be very disillusioned.

[Berzerker]

Obiwan -

True, but what about other substances with greater potential for harm? What do you feel the role of the state is to regulate these substances?

The courts would have jurisdiction to deal with fraud and false advertising, i.e., quality control failures.

Secondly, we also need to consider what effects our own use of alcohol will have on someone who is an alcoholic. If it helps him, as a friend, we should not drink in front of him.

Gotta agree with Loinburger there, and you of course. But just as I would not want my friend to have a substance problem nor contribute to it, I wouldn't want him thrown in a jail with violent criminals to "help" him stop.

[Felch]

Hash is the oil (IIRC) of the plant, that's extracted and processed into a sweet and wonderful chunk of dingy brownish blackishness that gets you high as a kite. It's sort of like resin.

[statusperfect]

Originally posted by Dissident
I'm not really sure what hashish is to be honest. I always figured it was like pot but stronger. Is that correct?

It is what Felch said. Do you consider it a drug?

Do you consider scunc a drug?

Or are all THC products not drugs?

[Ramo]

I drink alcohol because it tastes good, it relaxes me, I don't have an alcohol addiction, and there aren't very serious health risks when drinking in moderation.

I drink caffeine because it tastes good, it gives me an energy boost when I need it, I'm mildly addicted to it, and there are insignificant health risks.

[Dis]

OK now someone should create a thread entitled: why don't people do drugs?

[Dis]

as for alcohol, there have been too many studies proving the healthful effects of alcohol for me to ignore. At one point in my life while in the service I was drinking too much. But I was able to curb my drinking, and now only drink a couple of beers a week.

As for hashish, I don't know enough about the drug to say if it should be classified as a drug. But it seem weird to legalize marijuana and leave hashish illegal. My state has a legalization vote last year that failed. I don't think they ever addressed hashish.

[NeOmega]

Alot of people do Prozac and Ritalin because it is pushed on them by doctors who make a nice commission.

Then once they are on, they're hooked. They need prozac, even though I have never seen a depressed person stay out of their depression for more than six months while on prozac. After that six months they become afraid to get off, or they change to some other anti-depressant.

Kids take ritalin because their parents don't want whip their ass.

[Dr Strangelove]

Originally posted by Dissident
as for alcohol, there have been too many studies proving the healthful effects of alcohol for me to ignore. At one point in my life while in the service I was drinking too much. But I was able to curb my drinking, and now only drink a couple of beers a week.

Those effects are very minimal. A single baby aspirin a day is more beneficial.