Decriminalize all drugs

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Blaidd Drwg wrote:Apparently you are as stupid as you seem. I've made my arguments on a wide range of sources including something closeted cowards like you will always lack, first person experience.

In the end I agree most closely with Sagoma, although I don't think the US is ready for as much legalization as we might hope. I've been crystal clear on my stance and approach which you've not read nor understood.

You can keep making excuses, obfuscating, bullshitting yourself and others. At the end of the day, your arguments reflect a feeble cowardly and timid approach to conservatism. No one buys it now. I'd be surprised if anyone ever did.
Because I focus on the original discussion rather than the one you want to have? I'm not willing to state that your consequences are the norm without evidence. Making policy on tacit knowledge is always foolish.
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Turdacious wrote:
Blaidd Drwg wrote:Apparently you are as stupid as you seem. I've made my arguments on a wide range of sources including something closeted cowards like you will always lack, first person experience.

In the end I agree most closely with Sagoma, although I don't think the US is ready for as much legalization as we might hope. I've been crystal clear on my stance and approach which you've not read nor understood.

You can keep making excuses, obfuscating, bullshitting yourself and others. At the end of the day, your arguments reflect a feeble cowardly and timid approach to conservatism. No one buys it now. I'd be surprised if anyone ever did.
Because I focus on the original discussion rather than the one you want to have? I'm not willing to state that your consequences are the norm without evidence. Making policy on tacit knowledge is always foolish.

LULZ..

You did exactly the opposite and didn't follow the discussion at all. You sling "shoddy science" without any back up, just terse one sentence replies, guilt by association and factoids you hoped no one would review. Your one bold insights, supply side questions was completely tangential. When queried on your only other bright moment, couldn't manage to explain or expound on the treatment literature at all.

Consistent with the bullshit you excreted above (argue the points you wish were made, rather than the ones that were), you've shown once again, you favor throwing rocks without aiming and running like a bitch. It's clearly served you well to this point...may it serve you well in all your endeavors.
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Harm Reduction in Hamsterdam

http://www.seattleweekly.com/home/96180 ... first-city
Vancouver, B.C., has had a “supervised injection facility” for over a decade. Called InSite, it consists of little stalls where people can prepare and inject their drug of choice, with medical staff standing by in case of overdose and to connect people with treatment services if they want them.

After years of evaluation, the verdict is in: InSite works. A 2011 study in The Lancet found that InSite’s creation correlated with a large drop in drug deaths in the surrounding neighborhood. And while it’s seen more than a thousand overdoses, according to InSite’s website, there has never been a single fatality.

According to a 2009 report summarizing various scientific evaluations, InSite also reduced public injecting, lowered syringe sharing, and increased participation in addiction treatment—all without any discernible negative side effects. It even seems to save taxpayers money.
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Good. Riddance.

You wanna OD? I'll scrounge something up for you, gladly.
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Blaidd Drwg wrote:Good. Riddance.

You wanna OD? I'll scrounge something up for you, gladly.
And suddenly, I like you again.

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I am not sure why people here are a arguing about antibiotics, they may not be available OCT, but they are very simply to get by going to the GP and asking for it. 9 out of 10 will bend to the request and prescribe them. In Australia pharmacists are allowed to dish out antibiotics for simple infection. Go there, make up a story of coughing for three days and getting worse, and you will leave with your drugs.

And let me throw another turd bomb: all drugs should be legalised. Society consists of adults who are responsible for what they do with their bodies. Before getting a drug they thoroughly research its benefits and downloads. The state should not take the role of the mommy who makes sure that little Johnny doesn't harm himself with vancomycin, retabolil or synthetic thyroid hormone. Little Johnny will find the way to fuck himself up if he so wishes, with legal drugs or otherwise.
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In regards to the pictures of celebrities who died of drug overdoses, there also a long list of names whose deaths were caused by alcohol. As well as those who died riding bicycles, skiing and having sex.

Many things that bring pleasure can kill you.
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I thought this was an interesting take on the war on drugs and addiction.

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PY9DcIMGxMs[/youtube]
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This is a fascinating book on the subject of the global drug trade.


Narconomics: How to Run a Drug Cartel Kindle Edition
by Tom Wainwright (Author)

How does a budding cartel boss succeed (and survive) in the $300 billion illegal drug business? By learning from the best, of course. From creating brand value to fine-tuning customer service, the folks running cartels have been attentive students of the strategy and tactics used by corporations such as Walmart, McDonald’s, and Coca-Cola.
And what can government learn to combat this scourge? By analyzing the cartels as companies, law enforcers might better understand how they work—and stop throwing away $100 billion a year in a futile effort to win the “war” against this global, highly organized business.
Your intrepid guide to the most exotic and brutal industry on earth is Tom Wainwright. Picking his way through Andean cocaine fields, Central American prisons, Colorado pot shops, and the online drug dens of the Dark Web, Wainwright provides a fresh, innovative look into the drug trade and its 250 million customers.
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re: antibiotics - as a kid it seems like I was on antibiotics every couple of months. I had recurring bronchitis and sinus/ear infections (in part from my parents' smoking, in part because we had cats and I discovered later that I'm allergic to them) and that was the go-to, along with all the standard kid shit. Even in my early 20s I remember getting antibiotics at least once a year for something (in part because the college student health center was a cattle call and just prescribed whatever was the quickest to write out).

I don't know if my doctors got smarter or if it's random chance but the last time I was prescribed antibiotics was almost ten years ago, when a chick gave me chlamydia. The go-to these days seems to be prednisone/z-pak and a cortisone shot if it's really bad and let the body work on itself.

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Oh noes!! One of our court jesters od'd! Keep drugs illegal because I need my entertainmentz!
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