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re: Why do Americans demonize street drugs but celebrate alcohol?
Posted on 4/23/16 at 10:55 pm to TJGator1215
Posted on 4/23/16 at 10:55 pm to TJGator1215
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Why do Americans demonize street drugs but celebrate alcohol?
Ignorance and hypocrisy. It's what Americans do best these days.
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Posted on 4/23/16 at 10:56 pm to northshorebamaman
I'm off to bed. It is a pointless argument. People have it ingrained in them "hard drugs" are so much worse than alcohol
Posted on 4/23/16 at 10:59 pm to lsupride87
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So on an individual basis alcohol is more dangerous to society. That is my point. And shouldn't that be what we are the most worried about when making a law?
My reply wasn't framed around the legality of drugs or alcohol or the creation or repeal of a law, it was intended to offer an answer to the OP's question.
Posted on 4/23/16 at 11:01 pm to Sal Minella
And I think it makes the OPs point stronger
Alcohol is more dangerous to the people around them
Heroin is more dangerous for the actual user
Yet alcohol is the legal substance. That logic makes ZERO sense at all
Alcohol is more dangerous to the people around them
Heroin is more dangerous for the actual user
Yet alcohol is the legal substance. That logic makes ZERO sense at all
Posted on 4/23/16 at 11:02 pm to Sal Minella
Alcohol is also a pretty boring intoxicant when compared to psychedelics, weed, ecstasy. I would rather hang out with people consuming the last three substances rather than people drinking alcohol any day. They are generally more intelligent and have more substance as people as well.
Posted on 4/23/16 at 11:02 pm to Sal Minella
My cousin gets blind drunk every night, but she does heroin only on weekends, and she is the best person in her surgery unit.
So alcohol is worse?
So alcohol is worse?
Posted on 4/23/16 at 11:05 pm to TJGator1215
The answer to this question is so simple that I'm shocked anyone would even ask it. 1 is legal & the other is not. I'm sure it's already been answered but I don't have time to read all the replies right now.
Posted on 4/23/16 at 11:15 pm to lsupride87
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And I think it makes the OPs point stronger
Alcohol is more dangerous to the people around them
Heroin is more dangerous for the actual user
Yet alcohol is the legal substance. That logic makes ZERO sense at all
I think we are arguing where an argument doesn't exist between us. To say that alcohol doesn't have a vast effect on societal problems is to have one's head in the sand just the same as to suggest there is no societal issues with heroin/opiate use.
It seems you have an interest in this topic. May I suggest Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic by Sam Quinones? It's very well done, doesn't take sides and is very empathetic to the addict.
Posted on 4/23/16 at 11:21 pm to genuineLSUtiger
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I would rather hang out with people consuming the last three substances rather than people drinking alcohol any day. They are generally more intelligent and have more substance as people as well
We get it, you fancy yourself and open minded sophisticate above the rabble, but you're trying too hard with this post. The people I knew who consumed those substances thought themselves intellectuals and philosophers but were really unoriginal blatherers.
Posted on 4/23/16 at 11:22 pm to lsupride87
We get it. You like to shoot heroine and smoke.meth. awesome.
Posted on 4/23/16 at 11:39 pm to public_enemy
Not at all. I wouldn't touch that shite. But I'm not an idiot who thinks it is somehow more dangerous to society than alcohol
Posted on 4/23/16 at 11:57 pm to lsupride87
Your original response said alcohol was the worst drug there is. Now you're qualifying that with "to society."
Posted on 4/24/16 at 12:06 am to TJGator1215
Culture.
I highly recommend Ishmael and The Story of B for reading material re: the recursiveness of culture. We tell ourselves stories which become fact, etc. Look at the NFL. Brought to you by Budweiser while randomly testing for weed.
I highly recommend Ishmael and The Story of B for reading material re: the recursiveness of culture. We tell ourselves stories which become fact, etc. Look at the NFL. Brought to you by Budweiser while randomly testing for weed.
Posted on 4/24/16 at 12:28 am to Jake88
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Your original response said alcohol was the worst drug there is.
It probably is. I haven't tried every drug but alcohol is probably the shittiest one I have tried. Calories and hangovers, and the "buzz" from alcohol is tame.
Posted on 4/24/16 at 12:30 am to RegisteredPharmacist
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The answer to this question is so simple that I'm shocked anyone would even ask it. 1 is legal & the other is not.
You must be really smart.
Posted on 4/24/16 at 12:40 am to biglego
Lot of stupid in this thread, must be all the use of mind altering shite
Posted on 4/24/16 at 1:21 am to TJGator1215
Bro, alcohol makes me invincible. Name me a health benefit that's better than being invincible .
This post was edited on 4/24/16 at 1:22 am
Posted on 4/24/16 at 2:18 am to BigB0882
He needed baking soda instead of salt if he wanted to make Crack. I'm sure Mary Magdalene knew that.
Posted on 4/24/16 at 5:47 am to TJGator1215
ive never seen alcohol make a man eat another mans face off
Posted on 4/24/16 at 5:47 am to TJGator1215
Because alcohol is 'Murican.
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