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akuma587 on 10 November 2008
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bardicverse said:
akuma587 said:
We should legalize shrooms too, mescalin, and peyote, and any other natural hallucinogen. There is as much scientific evidence out there that these drugs are less dangerous than alcohol as there is that marijuana is less dangerous than alcohol.

They are all:

1) Non-toxic
2) Non-addictive
3) Do not encourage anti-social behavior (or at least don't encourage it to any degree more than alcohol does)

They do have psychological side effects, but so does watching a really scary movie or going to a haunted house. Alcohol is really one of the most dangerous drugs out there, people just think its OK because they've always been told it is OK.

God Akuma. Sometimes you make me really want to give Texas back to Mexico ;)

 

Why, because I actually know about psychopharmacology and the objective dangers of drugs based on physicological and sociological studies done on those drugs?  Apparently learning about a subject and looking at a situation objectively makes me a lunatic.  Go study the chemistry of these drugs and you will learn that alcohol is as bad as most of the worst ones.

Here is a great study done on most of the major drugs by a British Medical Journal that includes a ranking of those drugs in terms of their aggregate physiological and sociological dangers.  What evidence do you have to support your claims?  Your anecdotes of some burn-outs you met in your hometown?  How quaint.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17760130/

Most dangerous drugs

Research recently published in the medical journal The Lancet rates the most dangerous drugs (starting with the worst) as follows:

1. Heroin
2. Cocaine
3. Barbiturates
4. Street methadone
5. Alcohol
6. Ketamine
7. Benzodiazepines
8. Amphetamine
9. Tobacco
10. Buprenorphine
11. Cannabis
12. Solvents
13. 4-MTA
14. LSD
15. Methylphenidate
16. Anabolic steroids
17. GHB
18. Ecstasy
19. Alkyl nitrates
20. Khat

 



We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls.  The only thing that really worried me was the ether.  There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. –Raoul Duke

It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...."  Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson