(Feb 11, 2018, 02:52 AM)Arch.B Wrote: [ -> ]Drugs are bad. People do incredible stupid things once high in my experience. I've seen high shoplifters try to hide items in their jacket despite the item being a extremely large cardboard box. He proceeded to walk out thinking he got away with it. So anyone who thinks that 'weed makes people more careful' is a complete and utter brain dead in my personal opinion.
Thank you for your input.
Quote:Drugs are bad.
What? We know from hundreds upon hundreds of studies that a wide array of psychedelics can work wonders as an assisting tool in therapy, does that make them bad? Drugs are not inherently bad, nor good. They are simply what you make of them, and how you use them. Hell, even methamphetamine has been used for ADHD treatment back in the day, and is still used for narcolepsy or severe cases of ADHD!
Yes, drugs can turn bad if you fail to use the substance in a proper way. If you're unaware of what you're doing, a trip can turn bad. In most cases, one will just feel extreme panic or distress until the trip subsides. You are definitely
not going to think you're orange juice and constantly worry about someone drinking you, nor are you going to think someone else is an orange and that your mission in your 'dreamworld' is to squash this orange.
Pretty ridiculous.
Quote:People do incredible stupid things once high in my experience.
I don't think you have the experience needed to wrap your head around the concept of what drugs are. You told us an anecdote of a man, clearly not being of well mental health. Sounds more like an addict on their waking third day of a meth binge.
Quote:So anyone who thinks that 'weed makes people more careful' is a complete and utter brain dead in my personal opinion.
You've clearly never consumed cannabis. As any other cannabis user will say, weed does not make you 'stupid' in the way that you'd try to hide an oversized cardboard box in your jacket. Unlike alcohol, you won't run around and do absolutely dumb shit, shout in the streets, most likely have a lot of fun but ultimately you end up vomiting in trashcans.
In turn, say you get too high. You're gonna be lying on the sofa zooming through space, not endangering anyone nor yourself, be really hungry, laugh a lot, think in some pretty abstract ways, and forget that short-term memory itself exists (obviously without taking in consideration a potential panic attack, which can be quite scary while high, but often very rare and much dependent on your mood as a user. For most users of cannabis, 'severe' panic attacks are a one-time occurrence.)
Bringing up alcohol in this discussion is quite cliché, but it's to illustrate my point in a better way. Drugs play a major part in the foundation of your life. Maybe you exist solely because your momma and dadda had a lil' too much wine.
You should open yourself up a bit more to what real life is. Everything isn't just black on white or defined by the boundaries of the law.
Quote:utter brain dead
Drugs are bad? No. You are bad.