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Misleading title as this will be about the second thing in it, drugs :D
So I just finished my Chemistry Unit 5 revision and decided I'd write some stuff about this so it's not on my mind whilst I'm trying to get into the Physics Unit 5 zone. That and my air conditioner is on at the moment because it's waaaaay too fuckin' hot in here and I want it to cool down, and studying with the constant PSHAWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW coming from this metallic beacon of temperature adjusting usefulness is a little difficult.

So firstly I want to say I don't do drugs in the sense that I don't do anything illegal, I smoke and drink which are both classified as 'drugs', but so is caffeine and other examples which I might be able to add here if I'd put more thought into it before I start each sentence. I mean sure I've tried some stuff but it's not anything I'd like to make a habit out.

The first thing is my thought about what a drug is, the definition from dictionary.com is:
'any article, other than food, intended to affect the structure or any function of the body of humans or other animals.'
There were a lot of other definitions but that seemed like the easiest one to copy and paste, as it summed the whole thing up without me having to copy and paste all 5 definitions of 'drug - noun'. I guess theres a lot of different types of drugs like recreational, medicinal, etc. But to me it would seem that as a society a drug seems to be something that would cause both a positive and a negative side.

For example you have smoking which makes you feel good but then when you go without it you feel like shit (not to mention that you can make anything seem healthy when you compare it to the effects of what's in cigarettes, tar, cyanide etc, but the nicotine itself was what I was just referring to), drinking (so, alcohol) which makes you feel good but also makes you act like a retard and end up with a hangover the next morning, canabis which makes you feel good but permenantly damages your short and long term memory, causes paranoia and psychosis (permenant and short term effects depending on what your brain is like), hard drugs like heroin which make you feel on top of the world until you realise that sometimes the addiction can be that bad that the withdrawal symptoms themselves can kill people; and then it's not all about feeling good.

Caffiene keeps you awake and gives you more energy, but will make you feel tired afterwards and if you have enough of it gives you headaches if you don't have any (so a slight withdrawal), then the really really good things like paracetamol which can give you relief from illnesses from such a small pill which everyone just has in their house, treatments for diseases; then there's anti-cancer drugs which can potentially cure you (for example, cis-platin is a good anti-cancer drug) but also give the body a lot of short term/long term discomforts because they can't tell cancer and regular cells apart so you get hair loss and morning sickness and that jazz.

*For the sake of what I'm writing today I am not reffering to the latter, but to the outlawed illegal drugs which would be recreational 'hard drugs', so heroin, acids, ecstacy, cocain; then also the less hard drugs which will probably just be marajuana for this article.

I think drugs* are a very bad thing and I'm not sure how many people would actually disagree with me, but if they want to then by all means it's their opinion. Having said that I think the fact that they are illegal is a silly thing. I'm not someone who thinks that there should be no laws because we've long passed the point of that being an option, for a society to prosper you have to have some form of justice and in modern day society without some laws a lot of really stupid people would just start embracing what is currently illegal into their every day life.

The fact I think they should be legal is due to the fact that I don't think the government should have the write to tell you what you can and can't do when you're inside your own home; if you want to take drugs in your own home then I don't see who the fuck has the right to say that's not okay. Similarly this expands to gay sex and stuff which is illegal in a lot of states in america, and a saddeningly short time ago, even interacial sex. Now that doesn't mean people should be able to kill someone if they're in their own home because there is absolutely no justification for taking another persons' life because as an antitheist/agnostic I do believe there's a chance that this is the only life we'll have.

If drugs were legal, I believe there would be a lot less problems. Let's first look at how smoking is legal. A lot of people say 'yeah well if smoking is legal so should drugs be', which although I agree with the second part, if smoking was a newly brought in thing today wouldn't stand a chance in being legalized, the same would go for alcohol; similarly now that they're legalized they don't stand a chance of being made illegal because last time they tried to make alcohol illegal in America, organized crime rose to such a huge level that it was just too much work to keep it illegal.

On that note, in 2008 in america there were 1,702,537 drug arrests (with 750k of them because of possession of marajuana), which was over 3x as large as the number of violent crime arrests, and accumulated 12% of all arrests. I used statistics for the US because they're so much easier to find than UK statistics. (btw, source.) That is 1.7 million people being arrested for something that should, in my opinion not even be a crime. I don't agree with it as an act, but I don't think it should be illegal.

One of the problems people seem to instantly jump on is the fact that how would it be distributed, well it'd be a lot safer; you'd buy it from shops just like fags and alcohol, or maybe even specialized shops instead. Some people are like 'oh well if it was that easy to buy, everyone would do it.' Hm, well naturally it'd be an 18+ thing where hopefully by the time someone could actually buy something they'd have been properly educated as to why it's a bad thing, but cigarettes and alcohol are legal and not everyone buys them in shops, similarly if you go into a shop and you want some chocolate or something you don't always buy it just because you see it. The drugs would probably also be safer, not in the sense that the drugs themselves would somehow be better for you, but less impurities (glass in resin, anyone? Drug dealers giving out cat worming tablets instead of ecstasy, anyone?) and chances are a lot cheaper because there wouldn't just be your local drug dealer who could charge what they wanted.

I don't think if drugs were legalized it would completely stop drug usage, I do however know it would help the police force prioritize and start sorting out issues like knife crime rather than jailing some people for experimenting with drugs.

Another problem with selecting which drugs are illegal and which aren't is the fact that you can very slightly change a drug and it suddenly becomes legal yet still having the same effects. Take methadrone for example, which has similar affects to various hard drugs and before being made illegal used to be bought off the internet all the time by people who were like 'oh shit, this is legal, lets buy lots of it!' and there were stories about these people dying. Other shit like this happens a lot too with other drugs. Also, I know there's a problem with not knowing exactly what's in the shit you get from your dealer but there's a little bit more certainty than getting it from some random site on the internet. If all were legalised at least they'd be buying trusted stuff where at least you know the side effects already.

Having said that, if they were legalised, there would have to be a law or something to prevent people from being able to sue companies that supplied them, especially in america... 'This gave me a bad trip-' 'SUE THEM!'

I'm actually editing this post right now, earlier I made two rather long posts on a forum about smoking and drinking.

This first one was a reply to a topic someone made about smoking and how they think people should try it and see for themselves how silly it is:

'I smoke. I don't really care if other people dislike it or not because what I do to my own body in my own home really isn't anyone else's problem or right to judge, same with all other drugs. One thing I think about it though is it's heartbreaking to see 13 to 14 year old kids smoking when they're only like 4'9 years old, leave it a few years first when you've got less to lose. My grandma got a stroke last year so quit smoking because the doctors told her she'd die very quickly if she didn't, so she's stopped, she has no problem with me smoking & says that after 60 years she has no regrets, but would like to keep what she has now for longer. Note that with smoking after quitting your chances of getting CHD and some lung related diseases drop by over 50%, but some effects are permenant. I mean they put tar and cyanide in cigarettes ffs.

Why I smoke is mainly due to exam stress. I got prescribed some pills or something for exam times other wise i get really bad stomache aches, I thought It was just nicotine cravings but apparantly it's a relatively common thing for kids failing at school to get.

Before I started smoking 10-20 a day I used to just smoke socially at night clubs and when with a few friends at break and at lunch time, there were very few hooks as I was suprisingly tolleranttt. They made socialising better for me, they give you a nice buzz and it's always more fun to talk to people when you're smoking because you're not judging each other like everyone else in the world is with the 'omg you dirty smoker.'

I'm not encouraging smoking, I just think that it's someone's choice whether they want to start or not. There are adverts about how bad it is, there are quit lines, there are signs on the packet saying that SMOKING KILLS. To me, smoking in the morning at my gf's house with a cup of tea is the greatest feeling in the world.

People should relate to the episode of southpark when there's that guy stood outside the museum of tollerance smoking and they all come outside
'NO SMOKING INSIDE THE MUSEUM'
'I'm not I'm outside'
'Get out of here you dirty smoker!'
'yeah kill yourself somewhere else tar lungs!'

Reitterating what I said before; someone's own home, their own body, they're not harming anyone else.
There are even laws to prevent people from smoking inside and at a lot of public places.

Also, @ xejik nicotine is a single chemical in itself, it's an organic molecule made up of almost carbon and hydrogen. There are no chemicals in nicotine. In cigarettes however, there's the tobacco which is well... tobacco, that has the nicotine in it. You then have the filter, which has lots of nasty things in it like carbon monoxide and cyanide in it for example

@permaisland I agree with what you said about a main reason why people start smoking is from other people. I myself was introduced to smoking by my friend who had *gasp* 1 cigarette a day, super hardcore guy, but didnt like smoking alone so I always went with him and her offered me one. A few months later I was at the shops and decided I'd try and buy a pack of cigarettes, didnt get ID'd. Managed to smoke casually (as in one every other day or weekend or so, or sometimes a few in a day) without feeling any addiction or need to continue, I'd like to go back to that.'

This second one was a reply to a topic about the same person who said they liked drinking:

'Well I don't see why people would have a problem against smoking and not drinking, I can see how people would not have a desire to smoke, but smoking only harms the person who is doing it (smoking indoors is illegal in most places so second hand smoke isnt an issue) but a lot of people who drink end up causing a lot of danger to other people. Alcohol effects people differently. It's a mood enhancer and a depressanttt, so for some people like myself it will make them really happy and active, for others it could make them very sad, and for others it can do lots of different things like being overly violent; causing vandilism, assaulting to other people, then the silly stories of when people lay down in roads and stuff and get run over, or drink and drive at the same time.

Like smoking is a lead cause of various lung diseases & CHD, and can make anything else seem healthy, drinking has a really large risk factor in terms of CHD (btw that's coronary heart disease), with the other 3 major risk factors being smoking, stress and fatty foods.

Other problems with alcohol is that although it isn't very addicted, alcoholism is quite a big deal. When people drink a lot on a regular basis (*thinks back to christmas 2009*) for a prolonged period of months they gradually get the NEED to drink, whether it be on a small scale of a shot of vodka before leaving the house to get rid of anxiety, or not being able to sleep without getting hammered being something more large scale. I believe a big example was george best, a footballer who had a huge alcohol problem, and even after getting a liver transplant still continued until he eventually died from alcohol poisoning. People going through depression will also think that drinking helps without realising it's making it a lot worse.

Nights out without drinking just aren't the same, nothing says 'last night was awesome' like not being able to remember what happened and waking up feeling like someone's taking a piledriver to your skull. For the most part people are far more relaxed and open, are easier to entertain and generally more outgoing, I even found myself on the dancefloor a few times after having enough to drink. Last year I went to centerparcs for the weekend and spent a large portion of it intoxicated, we met some really awesome people I don't think I would ahve otherwise attempted to speak to, had some really fun times out and about in what would normally be relatively boring places, and then at night went bowling and to the bars and stuff; I look back on that weekend with blurred fondness.

I think a main problem comes about when people start drinking at home alone. I mean sure when I'm at home sometimes I'll do a little bit of light drinking and have 4 or 5 cans of whatever beer I have, but only in the same way in which a kid will drink a 6 pack of coca cola or something; for the taste.

Drinking for the most part doesn't really hurt other people unless you get attacked by a chav who's excuse is 'oh I had too much white lightening', which can be anywhere from not a problem if you're overly nice, offer them a cigarette and or can run fast; or it can be drastically bad like those chavs who beat up a girl because she dressed differently, to which the assault was that bad police officers couldnt identify what gender she was at the crime scene. If you're out at a bar in town and people are drinking around you, sure some people might be annoying but they won't harm you at all, if you're out at a bar in town and you're not drinking then, well... why the fuck are you at a bar?

I support alcohol and responsible drinking, and yes responsible drinking could even mean getting bladdered and falling down a 16 set of stairs (trys to look innocent and fails) as long as you're the only one that gets hurt ;)'

I then went on to talk about my favourite beers... aha...

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