Good drugs, bad drugs, legal drugs, illegal drugs

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pot -- who knows what pot does, but it does have some long term neurolgical sequelae that young kids cannot be informed adequately about.

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For what it's worth, my girlfriend's father is a neuropsychopharmacologist. (For those who don't know, it's just a fancy way of saying "a doctor whose specialty is the effect of chemicals on the brain.") He says pot is harmless. Like any substance (from alcohol right down to ice cream) it can harm you if you abuse it. But smoking up every so often won't hurt you.Look back at stats for binge drinking during prohibition as oppose to legal times. Abuse would most likely go down if weed were legal. At the very least, government regulation would provide an age requirement like with alcohol.

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It also makes sherm (pot+formaldehyde) which has produced some of the most messed-up, psychotic, and destroyed kids I have ever seen.

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How many substances would you say are safe when mixed with formaldehyde? Should we make any substance which is not safe when mixed with formaldehyde illegal?

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A recent study shows that kids who smoke pot are at much increased risk of moving on to more deadly drugs.

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Just as many studies will show you there's no direct causal relationship.If there's any connection, it's because you can't tell a kid "both pot and heroin (or fill-in-the-drug) are horrible for you. Don't do them or there will be serious health risks," then have the kid try pot, find out you were lying, and still assume you were telling the truth about heroin.[This message has been edited by Dan Carroll, 07-25-2003]

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That made me laugh.

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I do my best.

Admin Narceus booted the drug talk back to the drug thread. But the last reply was from Coragyps, I believe...

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Except that the word "assassin" comes from the same root as "hashish" - some Middle Eastern bunch back in Crusades days would get wrecked on hash (the resin-off-pot-flowers sort) and then go do battle.
It must have worked differently back then.

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What, you're saying assassins in the Crusades didn't have a predisposition toward psychotic behavior?

Bill Hicks can't come up enough in these discussions:

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"Egos drone and pose alone, Like black balloons, all banged and blown
On a backwards river the infidels shiver in the stench of belief.
And tell my mama I'm a hundred years late; I'm over the rails and out of the race
The crippled psalms of an age that won't thaw are ringing in my ears"
-Beck