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Originally Posted by jimbuna
I smoke tobacco and and enjoy alcoholic drinks from time to time. I AM ALSO TOTALLY ANTI DRUGS, so I guess in some peoples eyes that would make me a hypocrite.
I maintain my belief based solely upon the totally unnecessary destruction and human carnage I often see it cause.
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You use the most dangerous drugs available, but are against some drugs that are less harmful but illegal. Not a hypocrite, but maybe confused.
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Originally Posted by DeepSix
The risks you take should not present a risk to me or mine, though. Your "rights" as you may see them stop where mine start, and vice-versa. I don't tell you what to believe, or what to wear, or anything else, great or small. But if through your drug use you harm others, directly or indirectly, then you have no right to say your risks are yours alone. Where do you think the money you blow on dope goes anyhow? Mother Teresa's mission? The Red Cross?
I wish druggies would spend more time thinking about how they could take risks to help others instead of withdrawing from the real world into their own private pharmaceutical sanctuary with the flimsy excuse of "hey I'm not hurting anybody."  |
If you actually believe what you just wrote, I expect you to be campaigning to outlaw all alcoholic beverages immediately.
http://www.cdc.gov/ncipc/factsheets/drving.htm
Alcohol: Published studies suggest that as many as 86% of homicide offenders, 37% of assault offenders, 60% of sexual offenders, up to 57% of men and 27% of women involved in marital violence, and 13% of child abusers were drinking at the time of the offense.
http://www.vpcla.org/factAlcohol.htm
Marijuana: There are many articles citing rising violence associated with marijuana use, but curiously none of them quote cases of users being violent while under the influence; every single case concerns violence between rival gangs in the production, promotion and transportation of the drug, similar the rise of gangs in the '20s when alcohol was illegal.
In other words, your arguments against are much more applicable to the legal drug that you probably use than the illegal one you rage against.