Misinformation regarding drugs.

Drugs will never be legal because of the pharmaceutical companies on this island and don't forget we have to wait until America, UK and many other countries legalise, and then we will too.

Vito Corleone wrote: »

I genuinely think if young teens were educated properly and honestly about drugs there would be a lot less drug abuse and deaths due to drug abuse in this country.

I completely agree. Education is key. Not sending people to jail where minor habit can become a much bigger problem. I think people should not go to prison for having enough for yourself. The gardai should concentrate more on the large scale production within the state and obviously trafficking in and out of the state. Supply of day cannabis should be controlled by the state. Simple.

Misinformation on any subject is very stupid and can be extremely dangerous.

Drug use is no exception.

Majority of drugs will do very little damage if any.

Weed,MDMA,LSD basically harmless and will produce a very good time.

I Heart Internet wrote: »

But the fact is that buying and consuming illegal drugs today supports violent criminal activity. What middle ground approach to that do you propose?

I take it you don't buy diamonds either or any other product which has a potential association with illegal activities? How about cigarettes? Alcohol?

Can you stop moving the goal posts and focus on one thing? In relation to the OP, I'm fairly sure this is to do with the possible health effects of consuming drugs. (and the misinformation surrounding such)

That particular discussion can be fact based as many of the side effects/issues are medically documented.

Or we could just go down the usual hysterical 'DRUGS ARE BAD!' versus 'DRUGS ARE BRILLIANT! black and white argument which generally happens here ad nauseam.

Vito Corleone wrote: »

The recent thread regarding Ecstasy/MDMA has got me thinking... Do you think some of the information about drugs is misleading and possibly damaging to the youth of today?

Any advice that deals in absolutes and doesn't encourage free thinking on the matter is propaganda. I think there are lots of people ago shouldn't indulge in substances for a variety of reasons, but teaching kids and teenagers that 'drugs are bad', as a previous post so eloquently put it in a satirical manner, is ridiculous, really. Mostly because most drugs aren't all bad if done in moderation, and hammering a point down like that is counter-intuitive i.e. it leads to a public opinion revolt.

I definitely think there's too much misinformation when it comes to drugs, and very hard to find information that comes from a neutral point of view. Personally, I think all unnatural drugs are bad news, I'd never touch them, I've seen the effects some of them can have, and I feel there's too much potential for dangerous ingredients to be used. But I know a lot of people who don't share the same mindset as me, once they realize weed isn't as bad as people say it is, they get under the impression that harder drugs such as coke and acid aren't either. The whole thing is definitely too black and white. Hell, when my family found out I enjoy to smoke occasionally, half my family labeled me as a junkie, and the other half was asking if I wanted to split a bag with them.

Scuid Mhór wrote: »

Any advice that deals in absolutes and doesn't encourage free thinking on the matter is propaganda. I think there are lots of people ago shouldn't indulge in substances for a variety of reasons, but teaching kids and teenagers that 'drugs are bad', as a previous post so eloquently put it in a satirical manner, is ridiculous, really. Mostly because most drugs aren't all bad if done in moderation, and hammering a point down like that is counter-intuitive i.e. it leads to a public opinion revolt.

When have you know the majority of Irish people do anything in moderation, the same is true for alcohol and look how that turned out?