Why don’t people realize that ALCOHOL is a DRUG? The #1 “Gateway Drug”?
Whenever I hear someone anti-drug nut job talking about “Gateway Drugs” they ALWAYS say that Marijuana is the only “Gateway Drug” that Crack and Heroin users started with…
Yet you look at our culture and the #1 DRUG in use is Alcohol… ALCOHOL starts users on the downward spiral into addiction…
You look at US Culture and no event, no gathering, no party exists without alcohol…
Each and every “Anti-Drug Crusader” I have ever encountered has no problem at all talking about how drugs need to be stopped while holding a cocktail in their hands…
Alcohol…
Nicotine…
Caffeine…
Between the 3 “Socially Acceptable Drugs” in US Culture… There are only about 4 people in the WHOLE COUNTRY that are not “Drug Users”.
But because these are “Legal” and “Socially Acceptable” drugs… no one bats an eye when a “junky” needs their Caffeine Fix in the morning to stop withdrawal and be able to function for the day…
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No one bats an eye when a “junky” needs that Martini after work to be able to Calm Down at the end of a stressful day…
Because these DRUGS are TAXABLE, they are legal… Despite the fact that Alcohol is 10X more dangerous to both body and mind then Marijuana… Despite the fact that Nicotine has NO LEGITIMATE MEDICAL USAGE and therefore should be classified under list of Schedule I drugs:
Schedule I Drugs are classified as drugs that:
*Has high potential for abuse.
*Has no currently accepted medical use in treatment in the United States.
*There is a lack of accepted safety for use of the drug or other substance under medical supervision.
WHY do people continue to “Demonize” some drugs while massively abusing others that are actually MORE dangerous then other drugs that will get you put away for LIFE?
p.s. I live in the US and it is our CRAZY laws I’m talking about… I’ll deal with the REST of the world when we get the US Sorted out! LOL!
Fireball226 posted: 29 May at 8:28 am
most ppl do know and some dont care cuz theres alot of pressure in this world….also it has too many calories..
grannybce posted: 29 May at 8:50 am
i must be one of the four…..
take a good look…other countries have their troubles too….tea has caffeine in it….so there are your tea toodlers….needing their fix and they usually have a smoke in the other hand…..and alcohol…..lots of bars and pubs across the world, not just in the US…..in the jungles they have their natural highs, stuff they live on in the natural….. and lower impoverished countries always have what makes them happy, weather they spend all their money on it or steal it….they find it. so, time for you to do more home work and get all your facts straight. and when you grow up, make sure you have no vices….
MaryJane-Music posted: 29 May at 9:32 am
I think because this country is wrapped up in what is legal and what is not. “SOME” people tend to think as long as they are not breaking the law that they are able to partake and that they are within moral, legal, acceptable boundaries. However- I believe that each person should be able to decide for themselves what is moral and acceptable.
nyotorres posted: 29 May at 10:22 am
Alcohol is categorized as a beverage. Too much of anything is bad.
nicole m posted: 29 May at 10:54 am
Go to any Alcoholics Anonymous meeting and you will find a roomful of individuals who think alcohol is so much more respectable than any other drug, or there are just as many that say there isn’t a difference between alcohol and drugs. In an AA meeting introduction, they state that there are alot of people who use both alcohol and drugs, and that they are all welcome, as long as they want to stop drinking. I don’t know why alcohol is legal and marijuana isn’t, but to me, and many, many other people I am involved with, there is no difference. I suspect that money and politics have everything to do with it. In Colorado, an owner of Coors Brewery is a polititian.
Dujuan1973 posted: 29 May at 11:47 am
Alot of alcholics act worse than crack heads.