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Another thought: Maybe decriminalize some, keep illegal others (like MDMA, LSD/shrooms/psychedelics, pot, with drugs that are known to be fucked like crack and meth turned illegal).
I wouldn't even be so disgusted by oral meth ingestion other than that it's got such potential for binges that even just having it out there would make it more likely/popular to turn into smokeable form. Shit, the government's already doing it through prescriptions anyways (see http://en.wikipedia....e_%28medical%29 ).
I believe drugs should be embraced (because like it or not, it's there, just either in the black market's hands or society's) in the name of harm-reduction and common sense. Also, the children must be taught responsibility, and about addiction/problem use. It's already being done with alcohol (one of the nastier ones anyways), educated children who know what they're getting into are far safer than those that are suddenly at 'that age' who've only been taught 'stay away from drugs'.
Besides, teaching them all these lies about pot killing brain cells and doing horrid damages to your body only sets them up for problems down the road. Think about it. Once kids find out that pot is far safer than alcohol, and that the government/society/their teachers had been lying the whole time about weed, how much credibility do you think is left to your honest attempts at saving your kids from the dangers of drugs? It's better to take the lesser of two evils, informing them and taking the chance that they might try pot (or something else) eventually, than to teach them that 'drugs are bad mkay'. Cause really, when the time comes and they're maybe at a party in college, or down town, and a respectable amount of their friends/peers are doing assorted drugs, do you really think they'll gain anything from being told to never go near drugs?
No. They'd be much better off knowing the dangers and harms of the drugs, like not mixing MDMA with alcohol, or not mixing drugs without proper research first.
TL;DR,
IMO, drugs should be accepted into society as they're inevitably going to be a part either way. Even if they aren't, people should be taught the dangers/risks/contraindictions of drugs.
My advice to parents: Not suggesting you get your preteen kid and give him a drugs seminar. But, when they're at 'that age', teaching them the risks and safety surrounding drugs could make a world of difference to your kids. Let them know the basics, and let them know their parents love them very much and how it would break their hearts to have their child messed up because of drugs.
EDIT: Oh. And before you say that legalization of drugs would be insanity, http://www.time.com/...1893946,00.html
Decriminalization doesn't seem to be too 'out of hand' there.
This post has been edited by mrPomroy: 22 November 2009 - 01:28 PM
