I made this thread because I wanted to know how people feel about drugs, nearly all of these questions cater to the anti / borderline drug folks; specifically #2 and #3. That being said, I will try to make the questions somewhat independent and unique of eachother.
1) Do you think drugs should be legal or illegal, and why?
I used to be all for legalizing drugs until I heard about the situation over in Denmark... Drugs are legal there and drug abuse is phenomenal. Kolle said 100 years ago drugs weren't illegal and drugs weren't abused as bad. 100 yeras ago they didn't have crack. Drugs may not have been so potent and I HIGHLY doubt they were so intentionally addictive as some are now. I think pot should be legal and sold at a store like ABC controlled by the government. Legalizing all drugs would just lead to rampant drug abuse just like Denmark has though...
2) For those of you who don't do any illegal substances, would you try them if they were legal?
I've had 6 kidney stones and a ruptured disk in my back. Occasionally, and I mean very rarely, instead of having to spend the extra money to go to the dr to get a subscription for some pain killers it "might" be nice to just go buy them myself. The flip side of others not as responsible as they should be getting them easier just isn't worth it though. I'll keep going to the dr to get scrips every other year or 3 when I have a stone...
3) If you knew and respected a person, unaware that they used drugs a fair amount, would learning that they consumed drugs change your opinion of them as a person?
Yes it does for me. Throw out all the moral bullshit about drug use and you're still left with people using substances that harm them. I look at Tobacco and Alcohol in the same way also. I have no double standard on drug use. If it's bad and you're hurting yourself then I'm sorry but it lowers my opinion of you.
4) What event/medium influenced your opinion on drug use the most? The law, media, friends/family etc...
I served 4 years in the Marine Corps and I just got used to the idea of drugs being stupid. I grew up in the south but hearing about the crack epidemic helped steer me clear of drugs. In the end it just became a personal choice that my brain cells don't reproduce. Everytime you indulge in drugs you're chopping away at your potential, how much depends on what you do..
5) Lastly, have you ever willfully tried any drugs? If so, which kinds and how often.
I smoked some pot right out of highschool. It never did shit for me so when I joined the Marine Corps it wasn't hard to never do it again. It wasn't oregano either hehe. I've taken hydrocodone, oxycodone, loritabs, meprozine, oxycontin, flexiril and some other weak opiate pill I can't remember the name of.
I can't lie and say I don't like how I feel sometimes when I take the pills. I used to tell my gf I loved her like every 30 seconds after I had a minor surgery. Over the last 10 years I've taken pills maybe 2 or 3 times a year if you averaged it all out. Almost all of it was prescription. When I blew the disc in my back I couldn't afford to go to the dr. A friend's brother died and had some oxycontin left over so I took a few of those 1 weekend. I'll never take those again if I can help it though. They are way too strong and I really felt depressed when I came down off them, for like a week. I realized my mood had changed about 3 days after I took them and figured out it was the pills since I didn't normally feel down like that. I don't suffer from depression. Meprozine are just anti-inflammatories but I don't like them either because I get some weird adrenaline effects. Someone would walk up behind me and lightly touch my shoulder. I would get these waves of adrenaline rushing through me like my life was on the line. 3 days later I would just barely be straying toward the side of the road (not because I was all drugged out and incapable of driving, I generally felt fine at that point). When I'd see my car would run off the road in 5 to 10 seconds I would just steer straight and those same waves of adrenaline would rush through me and freak me out. I wrecked my car 12 hours after taking flexiril (muscle relaxers). I was on the highway speeding in cali with 6 lanes on my side headed to the beach. I always knew exactly where cars were around me so I could zip through traffic. I misjudged where an old mustang was so I had to slam on the breaks and I still hit the car in front of me. I knew then I was off because I didn't realize the car was beside me when I meant to merge.
I am asking this because a lot of happening going on brought these questions up to me, I will answer in a seperate post to avoid confusion. Thanks to people who answer
