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DRUGS ARE BAD.

HUGS NOT DRUGS

hugs not drugs

As long as you include alcohol and pharmaceuticals in the "drugs category" otherwise you are a hypocrite.

The solution to the cause of the drug problem

I believe that I have the formula for saving the world from its drug problem....If all the police forces over the world STOPPED creating informers from their criminal captures .i.e Jail the guilty..... No taking information from dealers in return for lesser or no punishment.... The outcome would be ......... slowly but surely the guilty will be caught ..... No exceptions ........from the top big shops to the addicted street dealer..

More later.............

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Hugs make people uncomfortable sometimes. Drugs dont.

Hugs

saw your response to "Hugs not Drugs" and even though you may have a point, I bet that if you ask a new born baby who because of the parents doing drugs, is now a drug baby, have you ever seen a baby that was forced to be hooked on drugs because the mother was an addict. It a ugly sight. I would support your movement to stop the drug war, as soon as they pass a law making it a crime punishable by death for parents that give birth to drug addict babies.

ask a new born baby. im sure

ask a new born baby. im sure it say much.

if we spent more money

if we spent more money helping people stay off drugs and less money putting people in jail for drugs i bet you would see a drop in the use of drugs take it from an ex-addict i went through 15 rehabs and 20 years of getting high. if someone would have help me rather than making me hide out to get high i would have kicked it sooner... rehabs are just ways of getting new hookups

drugs

ther bad

drugs

ther good

truths bout drugs

good things:u can sell drugs than make a war on drugs for $
prisons which fund towns make $ off arrested
druggies,therefore good for townfolk!
u can use drugs for enhancement in sports
drugs can be used medically
u can manipulate people to give u $
u can make people stupid then take advantage
u can make ur kids addicts then take advantage
u can kill evil people by o d ing them
u can sell drugs purposely to african american dense cities to make $ for weapons to kill people that are (supposedly) evil
u can kill good people(if u want) by o d ing them
when ur high sometimes its fun
u can live the american dream by selling drugs
u can make a girl an addict, then u can make her do things u want
drugs save people sometimes
the people at stop the drugwar.com will support u sometimes

badthings:prisons make $ off townfolk and are richer than every1 else!
drugs can be used medically wrong and used to get high for fun, and u end up dumb and drop out of school
drugs are for commies!
drugs are for capitalist pigs!
u can get killed by being od
u might be a girl and might be taken advantage of through drugs
after being high # of times its not as fun anymore
ur parents might force you to be high so they can take advantage of you
u might end up in prison where u get sodomized and are forced to shove coke in ur anus

Drugs,Drugs,Drugs.....

I would take hugs over drugs

I would take hugs over drugs anytime. It is interesting how you can change the world with a smile or a hug. I am talking about ways to make people happier and not making them turn to drugs. Today's fight has evolved and i hope people will be continuously informed about consequences and so.
Student Art

Arguing

Arguing on the internet is like running in the special olympics...

even if you win, you're still retarded

Hugs on drugs

I've been using drugs for several years now, and even in the depths of an amphetamine addiction, I have been a loving, caring person. Love will not keep people off drugs, unless they find themselves hurting those that they love because of drugs (this is why I quit doing speed). I see what you are saying, but I would just like to say that not everyone who does drugs, even the hardest and most horrible drugs, is an unhappy person, or does drugs because they are unhappy.

Have a nice day, and remember, even tweakers can have feelings.

drugs

good or bad, they are here, and the sooner we face the fact that law enforcement has failed to stop drugs, the sooner we can deal with the problem . How many more Americans will fall in the drug war ?

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drugs

there here 2 stay, deal with it!

drugs

Stop taking drugs and have some estrone instead.

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marijuana

OK! So drugs are bad. But there are some drugs that are over fought. Just look at the marijuana eradication efforts in the US. Tons of money spent just to eliminate a plant that has even been proven to do good (consumed moderately). And these resources are just thrown out the window. I can think of a number of ways to better spend these founds. Like drug improvement and making medications affordable through discount drugs. But the government doesn't seem to care about this. It just pores money into a hopeless action.

WHO DO YOU TRUST?

GOD MADE GRASS, MAN MADE CIGARETTES..... WHO DO YOU TRUST?

I TRUST GOD! BRUTHA

I TRUST GOD BRUTHER!

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"God" made the tobacco plant
and its been smoked for centuries
not just in cigarrettes

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I trust the tobacco companies :)) not
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Drugs

I wonder when this country is going to wake up & choose health over drugs. It is our choice, anyone can use drugs but it takes a real man/woman to face the troubles of your past and today and be strongs enough to handle them soberly.

health over drugs?

no one will ever choose health over outside stimulation, some people smoke joints to give them the endorphin rush they need, others take steroids and work out, some run really far and damage their entire cardiovascular system through over exertion and the stress that accompanies an unrelaxed lifestyle.

legalize drugs, if we dont need to buy them illegally (and people always will) then the cartels will collapse and a huge ammount of police resourses will appear.

besides, we should all be allowed to choose... right?

I Don't Use, But I Support

It is the responsibility of the government to protect me from others, and not myself.

Still using? Why not quit?

I don't use - any longer! Life without drugs is way better than it used to be when i was popping. Well, I won't come preaching here - just in case you happen to be in need of a good support group, you can find it at this health directory.

Help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

would some Real-life law enforcement type people start contributing to this thread I'm starting to get a really bad headache(;-)) wading through this bullshit.

It's just right!

I'm the same person from the "help!!!!!" message. Law enforcement personnel are the one's on the front lines the one's who can bring it home the best, what consequences the war on drugs are having on society. please no replies if not sincere (i.e. crooked MoFo's crooks (crooked crooks :-)) and cops (crooked cops ;-)) alike.

PEACE,

CIPHER

Drugs are bad, Mmmkay...

But drug LAWS are worse! Just say no to stupid legislation.

drugs are important mmmmmkay?

i'm really sorry, not to flame you or anything, but your a complete bellend

1800nodrugs.com Drug Rehab Referral Service

Drug Rehab programs vary, and some treatment facilities do not offer the best treatment options. The best form of rehab help is from drug rehab programs that can do this without drugs at all.

RESPONSE TO TRUTH ABOUT DRUGS

So all in all, hot asian chicks.

natural drugs are good for eating?

natural drugs are good for eating?
swallow it?

DRUGS GOOD OR EVIL?

Drugs are like money. People make drugs evil,when honestly if u are mad at drugs its usually a human beings fault(FOR INSTANCE YOURSELF?). Drugs cant hurt you unless of course for example some gangbanger decides to shove it down ur throat u know wat i mean?

The only problem

The real problem we face when dealing with drugs is not the drugs themselves, but drug abuse. The solution to drug abuse is not the revocation of substances. The solution is teaching children that a drug addiction is either
a. managable (many people lead completely uncomplicated lives and still do heroin)
b. psychological and no different than a video game addiction

once proper knowledge is in place, people refuse to let themselves make mistakes or take dangerous risks

Say KNOW to drugs

hmmm..

drugs will always be here . whether legal or illegal.. have any of you watched the movie blow?,, look how many times goerge jung was busted and he still dealed.. what makes you think that because you get caught..your not gonna continue to do it. some cocaine dealers make billions..when done properly..so getting charged with 100 grand is nothing to them.. they can make it back in a short amout of time. 90% of our cocaine is from columbia...over 50 million people in the world are heroin addicts..i bet you not half of those will never get bustted..
just give up..let the screw ups make their own choices... people learn from their mistakes

Perplexed by a lack of change

I never have understood the idea of locking up minor drug dealers and addicts who have never committed a violent act. There is no change in the frequency and potency of drug trafficking by putting these people in a cell. Destroying the addiction is the only way to destroy the supply. Eliminate the need for it.
Drug rehab is a legitimate option that would lessen the prison population crisis that so many countries are facing.

What can we stop?

Marijuana can be grown by idiots. Mushrooms can be grown by idiots. Opium poppies can be grown by idiots. Heroin can be brought into the country by idiots. Cocaine can be brought into the country by idiots. Crystal Meth can be cooked up by idiots. PCP can be cooked up by idiots. Ecstasy can be synthesized by idiots, and the other deadly chemicals usually sold as "E" tablets can be synthesized by idiots too.

Because the above drugs are so easy to supply and demand is so high, there will always be people to supply them. We can make small dents in the supply which will recover in a matter of weeks or months.

LSD can't. LSD is a complex molecule. It takes an advanced degree in chemistry to synthesize. The number of people in the United States cooking up acid in notable quantities is in the single or double digits. It's the only chemical, the ONE AND ONLY CHEMICAL, targeted by the drug war where a couple of busts can seriously damage the market.

But why would we want to target Acid? In the mid-20th century LSD was being hailed as a miracle chemical. It was being used to treat schizophrenia and a number of other mental disorders with unparalleled success. Canadian scientists used LSD to help alcoholics put down the bottle forever. Timothy Leary gave LSD to students of academia and religion who found it to be the most enlightening experience possible for man. Watson and Crick were under the influence of LSD when they determined the structure of the DNA molecule. Criminals were able to return to society as fully-functioning citizens after their experiences with Acid.

Why should a war's only successes be against a drug that saved so many lives and enriched so many more?

I'm actually scared

I'm actually scared how badly misinformed people are about drugs. Because we've lumped drugs into one category, people don't understand at all why people choose to do drugs.

I've read a lot about drugs over the past couple of years and I think I can say there are 4 broad categories of drug users: The bored, The Pressured, The Desperate, and The Curious.

I just graduated High School. I knew a lot of people who smoked weed, and they just did it because they were bored. On the weekends when there wasn't much to do, weed would make the most humdrum activities seem at least somehow interesting.

There are no friendly strangers with free drugs, but just like an office worker might be pressured to eat lunch at a restaurant with coworkers, so too are many celebrities and glitterati pressured to enjoy heroin and coke like the 80's idols. Soon it becomes an addiction and things just spiral down from there.

You lose your job. Your family is in ruins. You have no future. You need to escape from the misery of your day to day life. What could make you forget better than Crystal Meth? It's cheap, it makes you happy, and you couldn't care less about your situation. These people need help, not legal trouble.

The curious you may not understand. Read some Aldous Huxley if you're wondering what I mean.

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