Mushroomhead said:
lol, your opening line is the biggest contradiction in the world. Effects it has on people, I dont have to take it to see things, I will kindly ask you to stfu telling me I can't see something when I see my own family pulled apart because of it. You don't have to punch a wall to know its going to hurt.
Yeah it is possible for that to happen via high stress etc, but stress is to an extent avoidable, and can be coped with, drugs, can be avoided, and can't be coped with, they do what they do.
Yeah your right I have drunk in the past and probably will in the future, but I don't dirnk to get drunk, never have. Ofcourse alcohol causes more problems, maybe that could be because it is widely available and a huge percentage of the population uses it? Maybe? You think? As a mathmetician?
I dunno the details of your family problems, but i somehow doubt that cannabis was the only cause for whatever the problems were, maybe your family is using it as a scapegoat?
I had a friend who took a swing at me cos I once said that I didn't see any problems with smoking a bit of weed, citing all sorts of things about how her family was ruined by it, blah blah blah. A year later she wouldnt shut up about how awesome weed was, off to amsterdam this n that blah blah. Funny how quickly someone who was so opposed to something could suddenly change their mind?
Stress is avoidable? Heh, sometimes it isn't.. thats kinda the nature of it. If you can just avoid something, then its not really that stressful is it.. anyway cba going into stress-related depression, mental breakdowns etc etc - they happen enough in the world for it not to warrant discussion here.
Drugs can't be coped with? I beg to differ, I've been smoking cannabis for a couple of years, I've also got a first class maths degree.. hows that for coping with my demonic addiction?
Overall m8, people get addicted to drugs, not the other way around, if you can't handle your own will power - and you know if you can or not without having to take smack - then dont take drugs.. dont even drink coffee, dont drink beer, in fact become a fuckin vegan and live in a monastry or summat, that way you cant blame the world when YOU fuck up
kthx
edit: On your last thing about more of the population using alcohol than cannabis... yeah true but show me some stats that show that per user, cannabis causes more problems than alcohol - those who have problems caused by cannabis (even allowing mental illness into the picture) will be a very small minority of users, whereas alcohol related violence, drink driving, and general health problems caused by alcohol would probably outweigh the cannabis stats
Tbh though, i don't think its fair to compare the two, as one is freely available to all adults in the UK, and one isnt.. Maybe compare the stats with say.. holland? again this wouldnt be a fair test, as holland has an very different culture to the booze-fueled cunts of british society
I cba to go on