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quote:1) I never made any assertion tthat a smoker wasn't addicted. Re-read my post carefully and stop putting words in my mouth. I love ya, Ray, but that's really annoying.
Originally posted by Raymund Phule:
So what your saying is that the repeated habbit of putting a cigerret to your mouth isnt addictive?
I do find it humorus though, that out of all the docs that I know, the majority smoke! It is a cause for wonder.
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quote:Your absolutly right, you never said that. Hrm... I musta pulled the above out of my ass!
Originally posted by Lïghtnïng:
Some people call dependence "physical addiction" but this is a meaningless term. There is no such thing as "physical addiction."
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quote:Brilliant!
Because if I have in front of me an apple and an orange, and choose to eat the orange, then I would not expect to find myself consuming the apple.
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quote:Dunno Ray, the thing was that they did not seem to be given much information or guidance on how to use go-pills effectively, which seemed pretty irresponsible! Apparently, squadrons were grounded because they overused these chemicals.
Do they take it (dex amphetamine) it for long enough to develop a chemical dependence.
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quote:There are many pleasurable things that are not addictive.
Originally posted by i8beefy2:
Anything pleasurable is addictive. For instance,
quote:There is a sense in which walking in the sun is harmful, but in no way comparable to the lung damaging and carcinogenic characteristics of smoking.
Originally posted by i8beefy2:
And as for hurting myself, well everything you do is destructive to yourself, it's the nature of being alive: to die.
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quote:I wasn't referring to the 'gateway' theory whatsoever. I personally don't believe that weed is a gateway to harder drugs.
Originally posted by Josh:
I dont think the whole 'gateway drug' thing is a realistic appraisal of how people get onto hard drugs.
In Holland where they have given the populace legal access to weed (and good drug education), the number of people having hard drug overdoses has fallen. In fact, the number of people smoking weed has fallen too.
This seems to contradict the whole 'weed is the gateway to hard drugs and crime' theory being pursued so strongly in some countries.
perhaps you can give us another more plausible explanation for that?
Josh
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quote:Funny, I can't seem to find any cases of aspirin addiction. Or penicillin addiction. Not fair because those don't act on the CNS? Ok, find me a case of prozac addiction, then. You can't.
Originally posted by Raymund Phule:
I did however mean that all drugs are addictive.
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quote:This thread seems to have become a meeting place for pedantics.
Originally posted by Lïghtnïng:
quote:Funny, I can't seem to find any cases of aspirin addiction. Or penicillin addiction.
Originally posted by Raymund Phule:
I did however mean that all drugs are addictive.
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quote:And they should also be able to make an informed and supported choice as to whether or not they want to continue taking drugs. However so often a person's continuing use of a drug, or any substance, is not an informed decision. They don't listen to the most important information of all, ie. how their body feels and responds. Instead they listen to how they think they should feel.
People should be able to make an informed choice as to whether or not they want to take drugs.
Josh
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quote:So are you saying that people are capable of making good decisions about the pros and cons of drugs, but not capable of making good decisions concerning the information handed out by the government?
Originally posted by Josh:
But a large part of the reason people dont make informed decisions is because the laws need supporting information so the populace believes in their neccessity. If the right wing conservative governments started desseminating more accurate information people would begin to wonder why the laws are the way they are...
oh no, cant have people thinking for themselves, whatever would happen next?
(and this goes for more than just drugs btw).
Josh
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quote:I'm not sure that I agree with you. I'd say rather that the reason people are not informed is that they have not taken the time to educate themselves about the subject in question. The vast majority sit back and blindly follow/believe whatever is spoonfed to them by the media, or by friends/relatives/coworkers who are likely part of that same ignorant majority.
Originally posted by Josh:
But a large part of the reason people dont make informed decisions is because the laws need supporting information so the populace believes in their neccessity. If the right wing conservative governments started desseminating more accurate information people would begin to wonder why the laws are the way they are...
oh no, cant have people thinking for themselves, whatever would happen next?
(and this goes for more than just drugs btw).
Josh