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re: Viagra/Cialis/Levitra users
Posted by johnjay on 8/8/16 at 4:40 pm to Lazy But Talented
I've ordered 3 times from Blue Sky. This last time I decided to use Evolution just to compare. I prefer Blue Sky.
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Ordered mine from Blue Sky peptides. It's working great. Still trying to get the dosage correct. Have gotten the stuffy nose and back/leg pain side effects. So i've backed off on the dosage.
But it definitely works. Also noticed it's bigger even when not hard. Starting to think my blood flow wasn't the greatest.
I would say if it isn't working for you then maybe you got some bad stuff or something is wrong with you.
But it definitely works. Also noticed it's bigger even when not hard. Starting to think my blood flow wasn't the greatest.
I would say if it isn't working for you then maybe you got some bad stuff or something is wrong with you.
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Because they can't get jobs.
Wrong. It's because they can't hold a job. Yes, having a conviction does make it more difficult. But many addicts (those who want a job) will get and lose more jobs in a couple of years than you will likely have in your lifetime.
Also, most drug users don't only harm themselves. They are out committing other crimes to support their habit.
I don't understand the "make it legal but then try to get people to not use it" crowd. That makes no sense. I do understand the "keep it illegal, but make the focus more on treatment than punishment," crowd.
Legalizing it doesn't help you keep people off of it. We have enough trouble doing that as it is. Making it legal isn't going to cure that. "Oh look, it's legal so now people can buy it at Albertson's and they can keep their jobs so they can afford it and everything is great now."
re: Explain why drugs and prostitution should be illegal
Posted by johnjay on 3/6/15 at 2:10 pm to TheCaterpillar
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I think we should separate weed out of this conversation. People are resorting to lives of crime and burglary to support their weed habit
I wasn't really including weed in that. I was obviously using it as an example to show that legalizing it makes it more expensive.
re: Explain why drugs and prostitution should be illegal
Posted by johnjay on 3/6/15 at 2:04 pm to Darth_Vader
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This is one of the main reasons legalizing "hard" drugs would do nothing to reduce drug crime.
Was just about to edit to say this. Simply making it more readily available doesn't mean it's free. It's more expensive to buy a 1/4 ounce of weed on Colorado than from your dealer in Texas.
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Notice that they are still doing all of those things despite drugs being illegal.
So since people continue to engage in illegal behavior, let's just legalize it. Sounds like a super idea.
Listen, if we had different treatment options available I'd be all for putting true users (not dealers) on a "treatment track," instead of a "punishment track." And honestly, I do all I can to keep simple users out of prison. I pretty much exhaust all the treatment options available before asking the judge to send them to prison. They go to local outpatient treatment. They go to 90 day lock down facilities with follow up. They go to programs that are 6 months to a year lock down treatment with an additional 6 or so months after that in residential halfway houses.
But the recidivism rate is so high. Despite a ton of treatment, most of these people keep using. And they keep committing other offenses in order to get drugs. So then what? More and more treatment and more and more failure? It is so hard to break free from the addictions. We need whatever deterrents we can have to keep people from even trying them one time. And if making them illegal keeps even just 10% of the population from using them, then it's worth it.
ALso, if you were to read summaries of my cases you would stop with the "they're not harming anyone but themselves."
Never posted before on here but I'll jump in for this. I'm currently a felony prosecutor in Texas, and have also been a criminal defense attorney.
I can tell you that, no matter that actual criminal offense, probably 85% of our caseload in my office are drug related. Drug possession/delivery/manufacturing, theft, credit card abuse, forgery, etc. Addicts steal to get drugs. They do dumb things while they're on drugs - assaults, evading arrest, etc. 85% might be a conservative estimate.
If you've ever been around true addicts then you know the difficulty they have in functioning in a normal society. Weed is different - most of the weed users i've dealt with are just lazy. But addicts of the "hard" drugs - it's difficult for them to even bathe themselves, much less hold a job.
Now, some people obviously use those drugs despite them being illegal. But there are people who do not use drugs but would try them if they were not illegal. And the addictive properties of those drugs, especially meth and heroin, are too strong to allow people who think they might want to try it once to do so.
So, that is one argument for keeping drugs illegal.
I can tell you that, no matter that actual criminal offense, probably 85% of our caseload in my office are drug related. Drug possession/delivery/manufacturing, theft, credit card abuse, forgery, etc. Addicts steal to get drugs. They do dumb things while they're on drugs - assaults, evading arrest, etc. 85% might be a conservative estimate.
If you've ever been around true addicts then you know the difficulty they have in functioning in a normal society. Weed is different - most of the weed users i've dealt with are just lazy. But addicts of the "hard" drugs - it's difficult for them to even bathe themselves, much less hold a job.
Now, some people obviously use those drugs despite them being illegal. But there are people who do not use drugs but would try them if they were not illegal. And the addictive properties of those drugs, especially meth and heroin, are too strong to allow people who think they might want to try it once to do so.
So, that is one argument for keeping drugs illegal.
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