For every lefty anywhere who wants drugs legalized...
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and yet, you think illegal hard drugs are just as tame as alcohol ? go back, and actually READ the article.
you miss the point again. "no gotcha for you"
Some, if not most, currently illegal drugs have a much lower harm potential than alcohol; that's borne out by statistics. Statistically, alcohol kills more people than cannabis, cocaine, LSD, mescaline, psilocybin, MDMA, etc - combined. Yet, alcohol remains legal. And substances like cannabis, LSD, and psilocybin are among the most safest drugs a person can take.
Some, if not most, currently illegal drugs have a much lower harm potential than alcohol; that's borne out by statistics. Statistically, alcohol kills more people than cannabis, cocaine, LSD, mescaline, psilocybin, MDMA, etc - combined. Yet, alcohol remains legal. And substances like cannabis, LSD, and psilocybin are among the most safest drugs a person can take.
wait...more folks use alcohol because it is legal.
but it's tragic at the number of deaths of both opioids and alcohol:
Drinking too much can harm your health. Excessive alcohol use led to approximately 88,000 deaths and 2.5 million years of potential life lost (YPLL) each year in the United States from 2006 – 2010, shortening the lives of those who died by an average of 30 years.
It's a social disease - and socialism isn't the answer to it.
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Some, if not most, currently illegal drugs have a much lower harm potential than alcohol; that's borne out by statistics. Statistically, alcohol kills more people than cannabis, cocaine, LSD, mescaline, psilocybin, MDMA, etc - combined. Yet, alcohol remains legal. And substances like cannabis, LSD, and psilocybin are among the most safest drugs a person can take.
wait...more folks use alcohol because it is legal.
but it's tragic at the number of deaths of both opioids and alcohol:
Drinking too much can harm your health. Excessive alcohol use led to approximately 88,000 deaths and 2.5 million years of potential life lost (YPLL) each year in the United States from 2006 – 2010, shortening the lives of those who died by an average of 30 years.
It's a social disease - and socialism isn't the answer to it.
wait...more folks use alcohol because it is legal.
but it's tragic at the number of deaths of both opioids and alcohol:
Drinking too much can harm your health. Excessive alcohol use led to approximately 88,000 deaths and 2.5 million years of potential life lost (YPLL) each year in the United States from 2006 – 2010, shortening the lives of those who died by an average of 30 years.
It's a social disease - and socialism isn't the answer to it.
Would you prefer booze to be illegal because some people aren’t responsible? I don’t think the government should be the arbiter of what I choose to do to my own body.
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Roughly 40% of all people convicted of murder were drunk or under the influence of alcohol at the time they committed murder. Guess it's time to dust off the ol' 18th Amendment again.
Roughly 40% of all people convicted of murder were drunk or under the influence of alcohol at the time they committed murder. Guess it's time to dust off the ol' 18th Amendment again.
That was just a stupid ass quote. But I'm guessing you've had parents or siblings with severe alcohol problems, maybe religious problems also. It's obvious from your posts.
"You planning on having a long relationship with that glass or are you going to drink it? Drink up, man. Maybe we can get another.” - Janis Joplin, 1970. -
wait...more folks use alcohol because it is legal.
but it's tragic at the number of deaths of both opioids and alcohol:
Drinking too much can harm your health. Excessive alcohol use led to approximately 88,000 deaths and 2.5 million years of potential life lost (YPLL) each year in the United States from 2006 – 2010, shortening the lives of those who died by an average of 30 years.
It's a social disease - and socialism isn't the answer to it.
Would you prefer booze to be illegal because some people aren’t responsible? I don’t think the government should be the arbiter of what I choose to do to my own body.
Would you prefer booze to be illegal because some people aren’t responsible? I don’t think the government should be the arbiter of what I choose to do to my own body.
booze being illegal was tried. didn't work. The sad truth is, that it is addictive, and families are ruined, children are hurt in their growing years by having alcoholism in their family, marriages go under, people die, it's just so tragic.
Making it illegal doesn't work, I admit. But what is the answer to prevent all this destruction of lives?
Offhand, I'd say God and serious counseling is the only answer. I think people get all caught up in their own troubles, that they end up addicted, and their family and friends all suffer greatly.
There seems to be so much refusal in acceptance of personal responsibility... that lends itself to wreckless destructive behavior.
There are those folks who rise above poverty and despair, and troubles, and do great.
Then there are too many that give up, become addicts, and won't try to live. Biological or chemically induced mental illness/disability...
the homeless.
From what I've read and heard, booze and drugs never, ever solve any problem, it makes them far worse. I don't know the answer to solving the problem. God is there though, and He does.
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Roughly 40% of all people convicted of murder were drunk or under the influence of alcohol at the time they committed murder. Guess it's time to dust off the ol' 18th Amendment again.
That was just a stupid ass quote. But I'm guessing you've had parents or siblings with severe alcohol problems, maybe religious problems also. It's obvious from your posts.
That was just a stupid ass quote. But I'm guessing you've had parents or siblings with severe alcohol problems, maybe religious problems also. It's obvious from your posts.
Several members of my family; with varying degrees of severity. I've seen their struggles firsthand with it. That doesn't stop me from consuming alcohol on occasion, but it certainly shaped my views on moderating whatever you intoxicant of choice is.
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But making other drugs illegal HAS worked?
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But making other drugs illegal HAS worked?
dont u love how touchy these old drunks get when one besmirches their choice of addiction......with uncomfortable factoids?
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Would you prefer booze to be illegal because some people aren’t responsible? I don’t think the government should be the arbiter of what I choose to do to my own body.
booze being illegal was tried. didn't work. The sad truth is, that it is addictive, and families are ruined, children are hurt in their growing years by having alcoholism in their family, marriages go under, people die, it's just so tragic.
Making it illegal doesn't work, I admit. But what is the answer to prevent all this destruction of lives?
Offhand, I'd say God and serious counseling is the only answer. I think people get all caught up in their own troubles, that they end up addicted, and their family and friends all suffer greatly.
There seems to be so much refusal in acceptance of personal responsibility... that lends itself to wreckless destructive behavior.
There are those folks who rise above poverty and despair, and troubles, and do great.
Then there are too many that give up, become addicts, and won't try to live. Biological or chemically induced mental illness/disability...
the homeless.
From what I've read and heard, booze and drugs never, ever solve any problem, it makes them far worse. I don't know the answer to solving the problem. God is there though, and He does.
booze being illegal was tried. didn't work. The sad truth is, that it is addictive, and families are ruined, children are hurt in their growing years by having alcoholism in their family, marriages go under, people die, it's just so tragic.
Making it illegal doesn't work, I admit. But what is the answer to prevent all this destruction of lives?
Offhand, I'd say God and serious counseling is the only answer. I think people get all caught up in their own troubles, that they end up addicted, and their family and friends all suffer greatly.
There seems to be so much refusal in acceptance of personal responsibility... that lends itself to wreckless destructive behavior.
There are those folks who rise above poverty and despair, and troubles, and do great.
Then there are too many that give up, become addicts, and won't try to live. Biological or chemically induced mental illness/disability...
the homeless.
From what I've read and heard, booze and drugs never, ever solve any problem, it makes them far worse. I don't know the answer to solving the problem. God is there though, and He does.
I'll drink to that.?
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I remember back in the good old days of true America that I could get cocaine with my Coca Cola. Anyone against cocaine is against making America great again!
I remember back in the good old days of true America that I could get cocaine with my Coca Cola. Anyone against cocaine is against making America great again!
There was a tiny amount in the original coca cola, and it was removed when I graduated from college in 1929.
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legalize the ganjy
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