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07-18-2007, 02:18 PM
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Level up: 44%, 166 Points needed | | I agree this is in another sense how the "war on drugs" doesn't make sense. Some of the profit from illegal drugs probably does go to terrorist. Much of the rest goes to all kinds of other unsavory sorts -- from organized criminal gangs to freelance scumbags.
Legalizing and taxing these drugs would cut off their money supply. I'm sure they are quite thankful for strict drug prohibition.
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09-19-2007, 01:48 PM
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I can't express this better than a former police chief has: The Seattle Times: Opinion: Legalize drugs — all of them
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09-19-2007, 06:24 PM
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Originally Posted by pensacola_niceman  Everybody knows that smoking pot is the first step toward the path to herion addiction. From the moment you take your first puff - you are doomed. The facts are there. Almost all herion addicts smoked pot first. Therefore, you can draw the inevitable conclusion. | I bet they smoked cigarettes and drank beer before becoming heroine addicts. Addictions all.
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09-20-2007, 03:02 AM
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Originally Posted by pensacola_niceman Everybody knows that smoking pot is the first step toward the path to herion addiction. From the moment you take your first puff - you are doomed. The facts are there. Almost all herion addicts smoked pot first. Therefore, you can draw the inevitable conclusion. | Well i've been smokin pot regularly for years.. I've tried cocaine once and i don't intend to again.. nor do i have any urge or craving for any other harder drug.
PN what you are speaking of is a figure that is misleading. No doubt it is true that most heroin addicts started off with pot, but it is a false assumption to think that pot was the CAUSATIVE factor. Pot does not invariably lead to heroin addiction.
Rather it's a step along the road of addiction whose presence or absence would not affect whether you become a crack fiend or not.
Most of my fridns smoke pot, but none i know has ever tried heroin ( and you should know that heroin is just as cheap and readily available here in Pakistan as is hash - proximity of afghnistan and all that).
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Level up: 8%, 3 Points needed | | there is no way i would trust the government to produce my cannabis. i would however love the opportunity to buy the right yearly to produce my own..although when i stop and think about being *privileged* to pay someone for the right to cultivate a plant..im baffled. | |
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10-01-2007, 09:06 AM
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Originally Posted by hkbajwa Well i've been smokin pot regularly for years.. I've tried cocaine once and i don't intend to again.. nor do i have any urge or craving for any other harder drug.
PN what you are speaking of is a figure that is misleading. No doubt it is true that most heroin addicts started off with pot, but it is a false assumption to think that pot was the CAUSATIVE factor. Pot does not invariably lead to heroin addiction.
Rather it's a step along the road of addiction whose presence or absence would not affect whether you become a crack fiend or not.
Most of my fridns smoke pot, but none i know has ever tried heroin ( and you should know that heroin is just as cheap and readily available here in Pakistan as is hash - proximity of afghnistan and all that). |
If you take just one puff of pot, there is absolutely no question whatsoever that you will become a herion addict and die of an overdose. | |
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10-01-2007, 09:21 AM
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Originally Posted by pensacola_niceman If you take just one puff of pot, there is absolutely no question whatsoever that you will become a herion addict and die of an overdose. | What if you eat a pot cookie? I don't smoke, so I won't toke, but I ate a weed cookie once. It was OK. I too think they ought to legalize the weed, but make it a hella crime to get caught DUI or other harmful things like that.
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Originally Posted by fxashun What if you eat a pot cookie? I don't smoke, so I won't toke, but I ate a weed cookie once. It was OK. I too think they ought to legalize the weed, but make it a hella crime to get caught DUI or other harmful things like that. | You are doomed. You will become a herion addict for sure and there's nothing anybody can do about it. | |
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