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I always thought DARE was right about weed being a "gateway drug", but not for the reasons they said. When I started smoking it, and realized it just made me relaxed and mildly hallucinat instead of become a refer-madness psychotic murderer, I realized the must have been lying about the dangers of other drugs.
And I was right. When used responsibility, drugs are not so dangerous and are a ton of fun!
Absolutely not. There are some drugs that even doing safety once will absolutely ruin your life.
One hit of heroin will destroy a person. Cocaine masquerades as a party and work drug but it will fuck you up. Crack is the same thing just worse.
Those are just the popular ones.
That's just flat-out untrue about coke, not even an argument. Like DARE, the fact that you're wrong on that and lumping it in with scarier-sounding drugs shows (at minimum) you aren't actually knowledgeable about these drugs and their effects.
Even with those scarier-sounding drugs, there's research suggesting they're more demonized than destructive:
Ok? I never said that the propaganda was true. All the woes of the world do not come from crack cocaine, but if you think crack is a perfectly safe and wonderful drug, then you are insane.
Also of course I would lump them into the same category, and I do have experience with them, that why I say that.
You put coke as an example of a drug that "even doing safety once will absolutely ruin your life." That is word-for-word DARE propaganda.
The research cited above suggests putting even heroin or crack in that category is a stretch. I'm going to put a lot more weight on that than on anyone's anecdotes.
Imagine going to bat for heroin and crack cocaine.
Also what anecdotes? You accused me of not knowing what I was saying, to which I said I did and you quickly moved your goalposts.
I have put people in bodybags. Guess what a lot of them were on? Heroin. Crack. Meth. Unlaced stuff too. The laced stuff is a one way death sentence anyway.
I have seen people utterly rot away with heroin, and become a different person in less then 3 months. Then those people either go through utter hell for months during recovery, or they die. Do you you think weed makes people stab their friends and loved ones so they can get more? No. But heroin or crack will do that.
“It’s only once though bro! It’s perfectly safe!”
maybe just have a society that is just not so terrible that they'd do a shit ton of drugs and OD rather than have to face living in a shit society.
People do drugs as a way to cope with terrible living conditions. If life is worth living I don't think people will need to take so many drugs.