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I personally think that CM prohibition is working just as well as alcohol prohibition. it isn't and the doubling of user rates between 94 and 04 proves that.(Canadian Addiction survey 2004 - first link in google search)
I will not induldge because
1) it is illegal though I would like to see that changed, not for personal reasons but for the betterment of society.
2) for the same reason I don't smoke and don't binge drink or huff paint, card deck PT is challenging enough living healthily let alone engaging in substance abuse to basically try to prove darwin wrong.
Zipperhead cop says he runs into many users of CM who are the bottom third of society, I think this is more a case of his job dealing with the bottom third regardless due to it's nature and not so much that CM is a cause of it, but since they are willing to lie/cheat/steal toking up isn't much of a problem for them. These sorts of people are just as likely to steal the stereo out of your car for booze or cigarettes yet no one tries to say that alcohol use leads to theivery yet we know drunkeness does tend to make one more likely to be violent and/or do harm to others or themselves. How many domestic disturbance calls involved heavy use of CM and how does that compare to Alcohol?
In 2004 the Canadian Addiction Survey, consisting of 13,909 Canadians aged 15 and older, found that:
14% admitting to have used CM in 2003-2004
45% admitted to have used at some point in their life
70% of those that admitted to using before they were 24 years old
so I call BS that CM causes illegal behavior as if that were the case 31.5% or over 1 in 4 people aged 15-24 are engaged in illegal activity to support their CM habit and that is just not the case. In fact as use rates of CM has doubled since 94 crime rates have slightly dropped which shows no corrolation let alone causation between CM use and crime.
I know of many civy friends who are frequent users who are holders of multiple university degrees and are holding stable home lives and jobs... most of them are starting to quit as it's not seen as a cool thing for them to be doing at their age anymore. I have yet to see the same result with frequent binge drinkers. I've seen friends spiral into the gutter from alcohol abuse but not a single one to CM. I have never had to talk a civy CM user down from a fight in public after abusing it, I have several times talked down an alcohol user from fighting.
I feel that drug education needs the same approach as sex education. Abstiance programs and lies about the affects don't work, and prohibition is just making organized crime more powerful while criminalizing users of a substance less damaging than most legal recreational drugs who are otherwise decent contributing members of society.
The bottom line is that drugs are illegal and thus should be treated the same as when a member breaks any other law.
Drug testing should be done randomly and frequently, and the penalties should be laid out in no uncertain terms.
I will not induldge because
1) it is illegal though I would like to see that changed, not for personal reasons but for the betterment of society.
2) for the same reason I don't smoke and don't binge drink or huff paint, card deck PT is challenging enough living healthily let alone engaging in substance abuse to basically try to prove darwin wrong.
Zipperhead cop says he runs into many users of CM who are the bottom third of society, I think this is more a case of his job dealing with the bottom third regardless due to it's nature and not so much that CM is a cause of it, but since they are willing to lie/cheat/steal toking up isn't much of a problem for them. These sorts of people are just as likely to steal the stereo out of your car for booze or cigarettes yet no one tries to say that alcohol use leads to theivery yet we know drunkeness does tend to make one more likely to be violent and/or do harm to others or themselves. How many domestic disturbance calls involved heavy use of CM and how does that compare to Alcohol?
In 2004 the Canadian Addiction Survey, consisting of 13,909 Canadians aged 15 and older, found that:
14% admitting to have used CM in 2003-2004
45% admitted to have used at some point in their life
70% of those that admitted to using before they were 24 years old
so I call BS that CM causes illegal behavior as if that were the case 31.5% or over 1 in 4 people aged 15-24 are engaged in illegal activity to support their CM habit and that is just not the case. In fact as use rates of CM has doubled since 94 crime rates have slightly dropped which shows no corrolation let alone causation between CM use and crime.
I know of many civy friends who are frequent users who are holders of multiple university degrees and are holding stable home lives and jobs... most of them are starting to quit as it's not seen as a cool thing for them to be doing at their age anymore. I have yet to see the same result with frequent binge drinkers. I've seen friends spiral into the gutter from alcohol abuse but not a single one to CM. I have never had to talk a civy CM user down from a fight in public after abusing it, I have several times talked down an alcohol user from fighting.
I feel that drug education needs the same approach as sex education. Abstiance programs and lies about the affects don't work, and prohibition is just making organized crime more powerful while criminalizing users of a substance less damaging than most legal recreational drugs who are otherwise decent contributing members of society.
The bottom line is that drugs are illegal and thus should be treated the same as when a member breaks any other law.
Drug testing should be done randomly and frequently, and the penalties should be laid out in no uncertain terms.
