Gun loving Americans are needed

[Brodirt]

I think the big gateway drugs are alcohol and nicotine, I don't know many people who have been/are on hard drugs but they all started on nicotine & alcohol.

The only common trend I've personally noticed is that smoking pot tends to lead to nicotine addiction at some point, but this may be a UK thing.

That may be emblematic of the no-smoking era. With less and less people smoking you weed (pardon the pun) out the soft-core users. If you looked at the percentage of people who smoked cigarettes in the 1940s-1960s who became drug users of any kind you would find it a miniscule percentage. I would suspect it would be similar with alcohol, but not as small a group, and that was a period of hard drinking and heavy smoking.

I don't think its alcohol or cigarettes that does it. I think that there is a small percentage of people who are predisposed to addiction, and another group that find themselves there because of several factors, not the least of which is societal acceptance.

 

[bamafan64]

Everyone in the media seems to declare that the war on drugs is a losing battle. I submit that the war on drugs never really became a war on drugs. For years, most police departments focused on catching street vendors, cut deals with them to rat out their superiors, then work their way up to higher and higher levels of dealers before doling out harsh sentences for selling illegal narcotics. Meanwhile, the media bemoans the fact that people caught with crack cocaine and other "cheap" drugs face harsher sentences that those caught with powdered cocaine. Possession of significant amounts of any narcotic should result in the possessor receiving a harsh sentence. Cutting a deal with anyone with saleable amounts should never be considered. That would constitute a true war on drugs.

 

[Gravy]

sorry, double post.

 

[Gravy]

I think the big gateway drugs are alcohol and nicotine, I don't know many people who have been/are on hard drugs but they all started on nicotine & alcohol.

The only common trend I've personally noticed is that smoking pot tends to lead to nicotine addiction at some point, but this may be a UK thing.

+1
But before nicotine and alcohol I was doing a lot of sugary soda. I lost 20 lbs. when I quit the soda. Nasty stuff. Can't believe people put that into their bodies.
I'm quite content w/ my coffee and...HEY, WHO TOOK THE LAST OF THE COFFEE AND DIDN'T REFILL IT!

 

[Abagadro]

What if I love both guns and Mexican drug lords?

 

[marvin100]

I'm all for sending the gun-lovers to Mexico. They'll be much happier there with less regulation, and they will be able to enjoy all the accidental deaths they like.

 

[FLTiger]

Possession of significant amounts of any narcotic should result in the possessor receiving a harsh sentence.

Isn't that how it is working now? Aren't our prisons filled to overflowing because of the number of drug addicts that are incarcerated?

 

[Shane]

I'm all for sending the gun-lovers to Mexico. They'll be much happier there with less regulation, and they will be able to enjoy all the accidental deaths they like.

And we've turned the corner...