Have you tried drinking just champagne? It causes none of these problems.SuperJail Warden wrote:
Whenever I drink to a certain point, I get this huge urge to smoke pot because of how awful drinking is. Drinking is awful. You don't vomit or get hangovers from pot.
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So what does Yuengling taste like?
I'm coming to the conclusion that you're an amateur party-goer - IF YOU EVEN PARTY AT ALL.uziq wrote:
dilbert do you actually even drink regularly? champagne gives crushing headaches, it's infamous for it.
I bet the figures for sugar are worse.20% of all people hospitalised have problems with drinking that are contributing to their ill-health and poor lifestyle. that's a frightening statistic.
Add this to the list of reasons not to take cocaine: Chronic use of the drug may speed up the aging process. According to a new imaging study, cocaine abusers in their 30s and 40s show brain changes more commonly seen in people over 60. The finding also calls attention to the special medical needs of older drug users—a group that, until now, hasn't garnered much notice.
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Which still isn't an argument for legalising drugs. In the end society pays the consequences of the risks and I'd rather not be around people who are off their heads - temporarily or permanently - or paying for their treatment or incarceration.uziq wrote:
but yes, in general i'm glad to see you coming around to the view that everything we take is bad for you, and we take what we decide to be acceptable risks to get our pleasures.
Not planning to do that, thanks. They make the choice, not me.you can stop demonising anyone who smokes pot or takes ecstasy now.
So do you actually never go out to pubs and bars then or...?Dilbert_X wrote:
Which still isn't an argument for legalising drugs. In the end society pays the consequences of the risks and I'd rather not be around people who are off their heads - temporarily or permanently - or paying for their treatment or incarceration.
And if heroin and cocaine were legalised the cost would be a whole lot higher.uziq wrote:
the cost to the public purse and burden to society of alcohol and tobacco far outweigh any illicit substance. ‘paying for treatment or incarceration’? you do know how much money is spent treating alcohol and smoking related health problems, right? the cognitive dissonance is astounding.
I don't live in the outback.he lives with his parents in the outback. dilbert’s exposure to the world of drugs is probably some meth-head rednecks that he keeps as neighbours.
There's a world of difference between people who are drunk and psychotic drug addicts.coke wrote:
So do you actually never go out to pubs and bars then or...?Dilbert_X wrote:
Which still isn't an argument for legalising drugs. In the end society pays the consequences of the risks and I'd rather not be around people who are off their heads - temporarily or permanently - or paying for their treatment or incarceration.
that's a whole lot of supposition with no supporting evidence. unfortunately for your little pet-counterfactual, portugal has already decriminalised those drugs and that hasn't happened.And if heroin and cocaine were legalised the cost would be a whole lot higher.
https://transformdrugs.org/drug-decrimi … -straight/Levels of drug use are below the European average
Drug use has declined among those aged 15-24, the population most at risk of initiating drug use
Lifetime drug use among the general population has increased slightly, in line with trends in comparable nearby countries. However, lifetime use is widely considered to be the least accurate measure of a country’s current drug use situation
Rates of past-year and past-month drug use among the general population – which are seen as the best indicators of evolving drug use trends – have decreased
Between 2000 and 2005 (the most recent years for which data are available) rates of problematic drug use and injecting drug use decreased
Drug use among adolescents decreased for several years following decriminalisation, but has since risen to around 2003 levels
Rates of continuation of drug use (i.e. the proportion of the population that have ever used an illicit drug and continue to do so) have decreased
Overall, this suggests that removing criminal penalties for personal drug possession did not cause an increase in levels of drug use. This tallies with a significant body of evidence from around the world that shows the enforcement of criminal drug laws has, at best, a marginal impact in deterring people from using drugs. There is essentially no relationship between the punitiveness of a country’s drug laws and its rates of drug use. Instead, drug use tends to rise and fall in line with broader cultural, social or economic trends.
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