Drugs

[Kain]

You only live once. So why not live life to the fullest??


What's wrong with the occasional joint with your friends? So what if people had drugs? You only live once, so what if they're bad for you?
It's your body. Aren't you allowed to do what you want with it?

What's the big deal about drugs? shouldn't we just let the addicts be? Don't they have the freedom to make their own choices?


I would love to have some of these questions answered. I would like to know your opinion on drugs AND drug addicts. Instead of asking why, shouldn't we ask why not???

Moreover, are the users weak minded people? or do their living conditions force them to this path??


I'm really looking forward to reading your answers.

[Sheriff Ice]

Man there is a new trend in Lebanon i think they use it against our youth, and the trend is drugs sex and money what matters.

they are destroying our society by attracting the youth toward physical satisfaction and momentary happiness

[Kain]

Originally Posted by Sheriff Ice

Man there is a new trend in Lebanon i think they use it against our youth, and the trend is drugs sex and money what matters.

they are destroying our society by attracting the youth toward physical satisfaction and momentary happiness

What's so destructive about it??

If it's only a brief period of happiness then why deprive them from it? These are their lives. Shouldn't they have the right to lead their own lives the way they want to?

[TAREK®]

Originally Posted by Kain

What's so destructive about it??

If it's only a brief period of happiness then why deprive them from it? These are their lives. Shouldn't they have the right to lead their own lives the way they want to?

u said it its happiness for brief period then it comes the pain and the suffering, besides it doesn't affect their lives only but the lives of the people around them too.

[RUSSIAN]

Those who are distributing drugs should be hung on the square! They should be killed like pigs everywhere they are found! Every drug dealer is nothing but a mass killer.
There could be no tolerance about it.

Originally Posted by Kain

shouldn't we just let the addicts be?

A situation when it is extremely difficult to find drugs and having them is extremely dangerous to have smth with them should be created. It will not remove this problem, but it will help to minimize it.

[The Cheese]

Well the occasional turns into a regulated habit eventually..especially if friends are at the influencing part.
And the "only once" turns into all the time if it was done for a fast fix on the happy time all the time-train.
I'm sure you're not looking for the health hazards here because you probably know more than I do on that
You're looking more for the should we really interfere into someone's personal choices like that?
Had it been a one time thing then dippity doo da dip everything's fine and dandy. But it isn't.
If the person has money for the first time,they won't have money for all the other times where the addiction must have gotten worse resulting in needing even more.
That could lead to lying,stealing,almost non existing family relationships and even killing because a person would actually go that far just to feed the addiction so you can say byebye to any form of sound judgement at that point.
It could also lead to reckless driving(more innocent car crash victims),unsafe sex(STDs)
Wave goodbye to society from there.
(Okay...maybe super exaggerating here but it could happen on the bigger picture scale eventually)
Assuming that I wanted to try drugs,it is my body.It is also my responsibility.I am responsible for taking proper care of it especially that many people suffer from painful diseases and here I am ruining my good health.
(Trying to stay away from the religious "A person's body is a gift given to them" idea here and focusing purely on the responsibility part)
An addict also hurts those who care most about them as well...it stops being personal here.It starts being selfish.Bad selfish.
Also....addicts are not happy.Maybe "happy" in the moment yes,but eventually everything catches up to them.Relationship problems,financial problems,health problems in addition to the feeling of guilt if they ever wanted to stop and failed.Drug use could be also followed by depression.That leads to even more drugs.
It's bad all over...no matter how you see it.
No one content would resort to drugs to get happier...natural happy is just better so something must be wrong.Even if things seem perfect to other people something must be wrong deep down.
Maybe they got tricked into using even if things were going fine for them....but they will get unhappy due to the reasons aforementioned.
About the drug addicts,people should get a life and stop looking down on them...especially if they are trying to change or actually did change.Those who did not change need help not things worsened.
I am in no position to judge someone as weak minded.There could be deeper reasons that I am not aware of that dragged them to it and yes living conditions could contribute to drug abuse.I said contribute not force because maybe someone different with similar conditions does not necessarily resort to drugs.It's about how people perceive things and deal with them.(The deeper reasons could very well affect that)

Everything has a reason...they're using for a reason.Fix that before pointing fingers at them.This particularly is addressed to family,friends,surroundings,professionals,schools, and the authorities.
Also everyone makes mistakes so people should get off of their high horses for once.
Long post again ..but anyway thank you for the new threads every now and then .

[Kain]

What about marijuana then? What's wrong with smoking the occasional joint with some friends??

[TAREK®]

Originally Posted by Kain

What about marijuana then? What's wrong with smoking the occasional joint with some friends??

nice way to move the thread

the marijuana makes u delusional, it can make u do\imagine stuff that doesn't exist, it makes u think that u have power that u dont usually posses. Also marijuana affect the way u think, it increase blood pressure, and also it cost panic in a human being


is all this worth happening to person just to have fun with his friends? hell no

[Kain]

Originally Posted by TAREK®

nice way to move the thread

the marijuana makes u delusional, it can make u do\imagine stuff that doesn't exist, it makes u think that u have power that u dont usually posses. Also marijuana affect the way u think, it increase blood pressure, and also it cost panic in a human being


is all this worth happening to person just to have fun with his friends? hell no

I'm afraid you're confused. Marijuana is not a hallucinogen Yes it's mildly hallucinogenic but only because it may effect short term memory. It doesn't have the bad effects you make it sound it has

It's just a stimulant/depressant.

So why not smoke it with some friends for good times?

[Mitzidupree]

Living once is a matter of perspective. Living once in the same body, and mind, that's still another perspective; to certain cultures, religions, and beliefs.

Drug use is the increasing delinquent among teenagers in today's society, schools, universities. Most drug users begin in the preteen and teenage years, these years most crucial in the maturation process. During these years adolescents are faced with difficult tasks of discovering their self identity, clarifying their sexual roles, assenting independence, learning to cope with authority and searching for goals that would give their lives a meaning. Drugs are readily, adolescents are curious and venerable, and there is peer pressure to experiment, and temptation to escape from conflicts. The use of drugs by teenagers is the result of a combination of factors such as peer pressure, curiosity, and availability.

One of the most important reasons of teenage drug usage is peer pressure. Peer pressure represents social influences that effect adolescents, it can have a positive or a negative effect, depending on person's social group and one can follow one path of the other. People are greatly influenced by the people around them. In today's schools/universities drugs are very common; peer pressure usually is the reason for their usage. If the people in our social group use drugs there will be pressure a direct or indirect pressure from them. A person may be offered to try drugs, which is direct pressure. Indirect pressure is when someone sees everyone around him using drugs and he might think that there is nothing wrong with using drugs. Person might try drugs just to fit in the social norms, even if a person had no intentions of using drugs one might do it just to be considered "cool" by his friends.

That was an observational post.

If it were to me, I say let them. They're free with their lives. But one must be aware of his/her decisions, and influence of others. A liar, thinks everyone lies. A thief, thinks everyone steals. A drug user, wouldn't mind offering drugs to another. Just a smoker wouldn't mind a non-smoking person to start smoking, even if a certain bond joins them together.

So goes the eternal cycle of human evolution.