Far more school kids die from a drug over dose

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  1. ButterBalls

    ButterBalls Well-Known Member

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    If they die from a DRUG overdose it's a cultural thing and nothing to do with "THE" drug..

    OK? :shock:
     
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    I can provide you a number of peer reviewed scientific studies.
     
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    Gotta ask why people are doing drugs like there's no tomorrow. They party and do drugs all the time and it becomes too addictive to some. They IG, facebook, themselves doing it. An attention seeking and lonely culture is driving this.
     
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    From my experience growing up in the Bay Area, it was most certainly a gateway substance.. It may not have been the weed but buying the weed introduced all of us to people that had other form of substances :)

    Just a few to be had
    Seconal
    Meth Tabs
    Shroons/Mescaline
    Lysergic acid diethylamide
    Heroin/opium

    And as time rolled by more variation and far more availability.
     
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    How much of that “experience” was from before legalization?
     
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    Some are, as you say, addictive.
     
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    All of it. Legalization is a relatively new thing and actually not really from a federal standpoint. But before you get all jiggy with legalization, the same drugs and scenario stands true even today.. Only today they/drugs are far more abundant and there are far greater, newer versions and oddities "Bath Salts" to pique the young adventures of the modern cultural Curiosity ;)
     
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    Yes the lifestyle becomes addictive too. Think about it, drugs and alcohol are usually done when around other people.
     
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    *Nods*

    And friends/peer pressure is much to do bout it.. In my case it all started with a dumb book report we were tasked to do in the 6th grade about drugs, all that research did was make me curious and away I went, still researching it today ;)
     
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    So then your experience has no bearing on what I wrote. Legalization changes the paradigm. Legal weed has been shown to not be a gateway to anything.
     
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    Why? Living in the bay area in that era it was just as acceptable then as it is now. No one I knew worried about weed being legal or illegal as the cops generally just confiscated and sent you on your way..
     
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    It still wasn’t legal. Legal markets and illegal markets don’t operate within the same parameters.
     
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    How does legality change the argument that weed is/was a gateway drug..

    Try and keep up man :(
     
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    It's by no stretch of the imagination "A wonder drug", as suggested by the advocates of legalization! If it were even remotely true then all these ailments that Cannabis was/is supposably able to cure wouldn't be today. And I'll match your peer reviews with thousands of dead and dying cancer patients that it didn't save and isn't curing :)

    It just another substance to numb reality for a lil while with far less of a hangover. As far as pain opiates are top shelf whereas cannabis hardly does a thing for.. And if you're looking for honesty then ask an honest pot head, I'll tell you what it's medicinal values have been in my case, not much if any really!
     
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    And were do you think my friends an I were getting our drugs in 6th grade, I think it's safe to say now, Domingo :) It was either lunch or a joint, we went with the joint, cafeteria food sucks ;)
     
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    I don't use pot, but the studies that show hard drug addicts had used marijuana should be paired with studies that show how many are there that used marijuana and never became drug addicts. I would wager that every drug addict had drunk beer. A gateway product?
     
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    Because legality means a reliability of supply and no threat of arrest for seeking out that supply.

    How many people in the US drink bathtub alcohol that can blind or kill then when they can reliably get safer booze legally?
     
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    Well you would have a point if it were legal in every state and federally, unfortunately neither is the fact, so your point is pointless ;)
     
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    Except states where is is legal have seen drops in overdoses from harder drugs and less harder drug use.
     
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    Yup same cooked statistic the legalization advocates have been puking out for decades, like Cannabis cures cancer :)
     
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    And you are an acredited scientist with years of peer reviewed studies behind your belt that qualifies you to call those statistics “cooked”?
     
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    What would be the point of such a march? To demand legislation making illegal drugs illegal? Makes no sense.
     
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    No and you have trouble with our initial claim "That Cannabis" is a gateway drug :) Like most advocates you're fixated on one single drug when MANY others were in fact made available thru the purchase of Cannabis :) Another bolstering effect of THC is it gives children the courage to explore other types of substances, just like having a beer leads to shots. You know, "Try this, it's no worse then smoking weed" :) How about you research how many children overdose on Adderall in states where Cannabis is legal :)
     
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    Except areas where marijuana are illegal, show the exact opposite of what you are claiming.
     
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    You still sticking with the one point like heroin is "THE" only other drug abused :) You ignore meth, crack, Adderall, prescription drugs and many other designer drug that are introduced by the drug culture that enjoys THC too :) How do you even breath in that tiny bubble?
     

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