Surely the government has to start listening now....

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  1. MistaK

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    and may i add, is a nasty pastie :mad:
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    Can one of you junkies ;) tell me what benefit this country would get if Heroin, Cocaine & Crack were available to buy in Boots?

    There is absolutely no benefit in drugs being legalised. The price would go up, the strength would go down and as someone said, it would go full circle and back underground.
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    That (in bold) is an absolute statement and therefore totally wrong as there would quite clearly be benefits, which I shall now list again for you.

    People would not have to deal with the police/prison terms for choosing to do heroin, cocaine or crack.

    People could regulate their doses and not accidently end up taking adulterated substances. For example people can OD because they are used to taking shit quality smack, then they take something decent and go under. This would no longer be an issue. Life threatening adulterants fortunately don't seem to be much of a problem in the uk drug scene, but there have been a LOT of hospital admisssions recently because of BZP/MCPP pills being sold of MDMA. This would no longer be an issue.

    With a reformed drug policy would hopefully come REAL drug education/resources and an end to the completely false drug myths in the media. Something more akin to erowid with a comprehensive list of reccomended doses, effects, contraindictions, toxicology reports and experiences as opposed to the absolute laughing stock that is talktofrank.com It's not usefull whatsoever and contains dangerous information.

    and how can the strength of a drug go down! Do people just say this to wind me up? :lol: If you are buying pharm grade drugs then the "strength" is relative and absolute. If you buy 100mg of MDMA then it is 100mg MDMA. If you want to do more than that you buy more. If drugs weren't illegal, they chould be produced cheaper than what chemists can now, which then have to pass fuck knows how many hands just to get onto the market (at a pretty decent price to be fair). The government is hardly going to charge you £60 for a gram of MDMA, when chemists in other countries are managing to produce it illegaly then ship it here illegaly for less than that?

    Anti drug attitudes are the new racism/homophobia/sexism. Eventually people will open their minds and realise how logically sound this ideology is.
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    :lol:

    I love making comments like that, it makes me feel well left wing, mannnn.

    I am the equivalent of an internet clubber. Proper armchair ecologist/activist. :lol:
  5. Phil Mitchell

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    So to save the lives of a few people who obviously dont care that much about their bodies and mental state, you'd rather make it easier for people to ruin their lives?

    great logic :lol:


    Anyway, Im off to the pub to drink 12 pints of premium strength European lager :wink:
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    Your logic is totally screwed, we'd be saving everyone, even the world! Think outside your little box (of mind numbing lager) si, get off the beer and on the acid, we've got work to do. I'm off to listen to techno and save society, enjoy the pub.

    ;) :lol:
  7. Ness

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    :lol: :clap: :lol:

    there was so many things i wanted to say on here but didnt have time at work. however i knew you would end up saying it eventually (see previous post) :D
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    I think the current system is OK.

    Essentially anyone who wants to get hold of and use drugs can do.

    It strikes me that drug control is a bit like a speed limit. You could argue that the benefit to you of arriving faster and being more excited exceeds the risk of dying, and that it's your decision.

    Yes you might crash into someone, but then look at the Bigg market: plenty of people hurt each other on drugs/alcohol anyway. Just because you've never crashed, doesn't mean that noone ever will.

    I really think that when I look at people with alcohol, some significant proportion of the population would not be capable of moderating legalised drug intake.

    I think that any potential reduction in harm caused by purer drugs and more information is going to be vastly outweighed by people without a clue necking huge quantities and dying.

    Anyone who has enough sense to think about risk before doing drugs has enough sense to be able to get hold of them.

    I agree with so many of your points Rossy and I can argue this either way - but I think you're overestimatking the ability of the population judge risk because you can.

    Back to the speed limit thing, a racing driver might very well be able to safely drive at 90 down a country lane and claim that speed limits should be removed as a result, but some 17 year old knob head in a Nova, and actually the majority of people, can't.
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    Your analogy imo is flawed, because said nova driver could easily inflict a direct risk to others, whereas drug users can be quite capable of causing no damage to anyone but themselves.

    A large proportion of tryptamines (that's your lsd, mushrooms and a wide variety of other psychedelic chemicals) are not known to be toxic and haven't killed anyone, yet are illegal substances due to a catch all classification in the UK. Some of them are very mellow and gentle on the mind and weren't given a second chance.

    However, some of them can be aquired legally (falling outside the act or through perfectly legal natural sources), they are open to the general public and just as intense as any of the classified chemicals yet you don't see everyone going into meltdown and rushing out their way to buy them. These horror chemicals which will cause the end of society are already legal in some cases and how many people even do them?

    As may have been mentioned in this thread, there was apparently (in all honestly never seen the study) a decrease in cannabis use when it was declassified, possibly in holland or something like that. There are already intense, legal chemicals like salvia and LSA and the majority of the public don't have the slightest bit of interest in them, while the rest use them responsibly.

    I mean DMT, the most powerfull drug on the planet (with use going back to mayan culture) is produced by our own fucking brains, it is actually thought to be a vital neurotransmitter and it's a Class A substance! It's fucking unbelievable, imagine if you could get locked in a cell because you were caught with excessive posession of something that grows inside your brain!

    To summarise, drugs are legal and they are not causing anywhere near enough problems outweighing those of the poor cunts that are locked up in jail. The rest are illegal, often for no reason at all and quite simply should not be.

    Or lets all be productive robots and make our ever so caring employers millions of pounds.
  10. TheSpence

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    Legalised drugs would be on par the legalised porn in the UK.

    Aye Rossy, our Government would never tax us more than other nations:spangled:

    I don't have any hangups about casual drug taking, just think the vast majority of casual drug users have got by okay for many years doing a bit of dabbling at the weekend & that there is no need for the Government or pharmaceutical companies to get involved with laws,taxes,profits etc.

    I think its great that some of yous belive in ideology about legal drugs but the realities would be completely different.
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    sorry to bring this thread up again, but i was reading a report about Ket early this morning:

    Gov. Ket report

    and one of the statements really boiled my piss (top of page 6 for reference):

    "In this case, sentences of six years were
    imposed as the offence charged was one of attempting to supply ecstasy. It is
    felt that ketamine supply represents low risk and high gains to organised
    criminals and the public is not adequately protected."


    that is a right piss take..... you take drugs because you take drugs. unless of course your being spiked... however even if you were given some dodgey ket pill instead of an E, you are still running the gaunlet anyway! and ket technically isnt as dangerous!

    rarrrrr!

    i havent a clue why i'm reading this report, i think its because i was trying to find the legal classification of ephedrine :(
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    And after looking ephedrine doesent seem to be on the list, although its still illegal..... the bastards!

    and in my horrible pissed state i made it my mission to post on every forum:

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    sad fucking bastard.
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    Readin government reports on ketamine at 4.30am on Monday morning = long weekend :lol:
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    not every forum...
  16. Ness

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    I know this thread has now moved on but;

    :lol: What a fucking brilliant comeback my love. :love:
  18. Ness

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    why thank u honey :lol:

    U not away to work yet?!
  19. Rossy

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    The people who stormed that police station sound like a bunch of fucking idiots though. Just fucked everything up for all concerned in Norfolk I'd imagine.
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    true but the attitude of the authorities is so confrontational it will make things worse. after all they were only taking part in 'an unlicensed musical event' which in most places in the world is not even a crime. with all the crime around is it really the best use of 200 coppers time?

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