Illicit Drugs

[-FIGJAM-]

[Ben C34]

[hardsteppa]

"model portrayal" my ass....she's off chops.

[GH05T]

[dyl33]

[dyl33]

[GH05T]

[Mohsen]

has anyone actually hit the glass barbie though?

[Birds]

Ya mum after she blew me for a hit

[Trozzle]

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/oct/28/why-are-drugs-illegal-google-answer

[Mohsen]

Ya mum after she blew me for a hit

f**k lmfao

looks like troys on the glass barbie, he bought a golf.

[Sinista32]

Totally unbiased article by a prominent expert on the subject backed by irrefutable statistical data

Judge legalisation of addictions by degree of potential consequences to others.

[Ben C34]

Bong on.

[Trozzle]

f**k lmfao

looks like troys on the glass barbie, he bought a golf.

lolwut

Totally unbiased article by a prominent expert on the subject backed by irrefutable statistical data

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Nutt

David John Nutt (born 16 April 1951) DM FRCP FRCPsych FMedSci is a British psychiatrist and neuropsychopharmacologist specialising in the research of drugs that affect the brain and conditions such as addiction,anxiety and sleep.^[3] He was until 2009 a professor at the University of Bristol heading their Psychopharmacology Unit.^[4] Since then he has been the Edmond J Safra chair in Neuropsychopharmacology at Imperial College, London.^[5] Nutt was a member of the Committee on Safety of Medicines, and was President of the European College of Neuropsychopharmacology.^[6][7][8] His book "Drugs without the hot air" (UIT press) won the Transmission Prize for Communicating Science in 2014.

Judge legalisation of addictions by degree of potential consequences to others.

I interpret this as "actually assess the real world effects of each current illicit and legislate its legality according to the factual severity of their impact" - ie the sensible way to go about it, not unnecessarily demonising everything as we've seen in the past?

If so, I agree 100%. People should be allowed to do as they please with their own bodies in the appropriate settings (privacy of home), within reason. So long as the results of their use have no appreciable negative impact on any aspect of society, INCLUDING resulting health complications that impact the public healthcare system and taxpayer, then really it's on the user. Still need some measures to ensure the user doesn't do something stupid, which is understandably a topic of concern that would need addressing...though really I believe that comes down to education, which is where I see some others' points regarding driving whilst high - you can't PREVENT it from happening; you can only really catch the person in the act, which is too late. The fact this is already of concern with alcohol doesn't take away from 'drug driving' either, so I do see the point in the argument of not adding more to a current problem by decriminilising certain things.

[Trozzle]

Also now I've finally confirmed 'glass barbie' is specifically a crack pipe - no lol, I've not smoked anything besides cannabis (including oil), tobacco, and DMT.

[-FIGJAM-]

no heroin? missing out son

[Trozzle]

Heroin and opiates in general I don't have any interest in touching personally. I also believe heroin to be one of the drugs that shouldn't ever be derestricted as it has far too high abuse potential leading to nasty dependence. Meth also goes in this category imo. They have too high impact on society when abused, which is somewhat inevitable.

[gtr jet]

Did you see anything cool when you tried DMT?

[Trozzle]

Derp.

Edited November 8, 2015 by Trozzle

[Trozzle]

Did you see anything cool when you tried DMT?

Personally, I've never experienced the kind of hallucinations the layperson associates with hallucinogens like LSD, DMT, mushrooms, etc. Like the whole seeing things that are absolutely not there, like elephants haha. Or the wall fully melting, or my immediate reality dissolving. The most I've 'seen' is having geometric fractal patterns wash over my whole vision, distorting everything I see into a colourful twisted mess; unfortunately no machine elves or 'common' DMT phenomena.

While visuals are one aspect of tripping I enjoy greatly, I still enjoy most other aspects equally - like the overwhelming understanding and realisation (of something, haha), the awe and wonder, the HOLY SHIT THIS IS INCREDIBLE WOOOOOOOOOOWWWWWWWWWW. Generally DMT slaps me hard enough that opening my eyes doesn't really cross my mind, and it's more laying there for 10-15 minutes in relative bliss.