One in 10 teens in UK has tried hard drugs
10/02/2021
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A study of 20,000 young people finds a third have used cannabis and half admit to binge-drinking.
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Hard to say since ukgov don't release figures.
Majority of faces in major drug dealing gangs are coloured. Majority murders on street.. Which you assume (cos media won't same) are coloured. So if this report correct.. Colored more concerned with dealing drugs than consumption? Removed
Majority of faces in major drug dealing gangs are coloured. Majority murders on street.. Which you assume (cos media won't same) are coloured. So if this report correct.. Colored more concerned with dealing drugs than consumption? Removed
You get locked up for supplying, not possessing.
Presumably these aren't held up by paper work at the border.
Why is there a need to differentiate between the colours of the teens?
Because it's important.
Like differentiating between the ethnicity of criminals is also important but it's never publicised, as the truth goes against the left's agenda.
Like differentiating between the ethnicity of criminals is also important but it's never publicised, as the truth goes against the left's agenda.
There could be more useful differentiations, such as socio-economic class, urban v rural, education level.
Why not...The way things are now I'm not surprised. Get out of your head seems a good option given the situation so-called grown-ups have got the world into.
Now pass the LSD...
Now pass the LSD...
Yep , with the current s%*tshow in this country many more will be turning to mind altering substances !
"This list of hard drugs included cocaine, acid, ecstasy, speed, ketamine and any other psychoactive substances."
Don't touch the grass, it could be super-strength skunk.
Don't touch the grass, it could be super-strength skunk.
What would you expect to happen if there was less guidance and control over youths?
It may be written in stone, but if there is no control (enforcement) the world is my oyster.
I'll do as I wontonly do and you can't touch me.
Result seems to be a sownward spiral where new parents me me me and their offspring gets IGNORED. {Too busy me sexting}
It may be written in stone, but if there is no control (enforcement) the world is my oyster.
I'll do as I wontonly do and you can't touch me.
Result seems to be a sownward spiral where new parents me me me and their offspring gets IGNORED. {Too busy me sexting}
What would you expect to happen if there was less guidance and control over youths?
It may be written in stone, but if there is no control (enforcement) the world is my oyster.
I'll do as I wontonly do and you can't touch me.
Result seems to be a sownward spiral where new parents me me me and their offspring gets IGNORED. {Too busy me sexting}
It may be written in stone, but if there is no control (enforcement) the world is my oyster.
I'll do as I wontonly do and you can't touch me.
Result seems to be a sownward spiral where new parents me me me and their offspring gets IGNORED. {Too busy me sexting}
There's nonsense, then there's this.
Most of them buy drugs from each other, or dealers of the same age.
Most of them buy drugs from each other, or dealers of the same age.
Shocking
And zero out of ten have tried hard work.
ye well sed mate!!!
back in are the only "ecstasy" we got wos gettin out of a 16 hour shift down the coal mines with your life in cheque. and we was glad to do it too
youngsters these days to obsesed with their facebook, and selfies and designer drug ecstasy. they wuldnt know a hard days graft if it hit them in the face
its pc gone mad mate!!
back in are the only "ecstasy" we got wos gettin out of a 16 hour shift down the coal mines with your life in cheque. and we was glad to do it too
youngsters these days to obsesed with their facebook, and selfies and designer drug ecstasy. they wuldnt know a hard days graft if it hit them in the face
its pc gone mad mate!!
Moronic comment as all crass generalisations are. When was the last time you knew of young teens doing "hard work" in your living memory?
I'm really not surprised. The UK offers very little by way of vision or drive for future generations; selling drugs is a quick earner and for those who want it an easy fix.
Compound that with current curtailment on socialising and it's an epidemic waiting to happen.
Compound that with current curtailment on socialising and it's an epidemic waiting to happen.
Interesting. If you are of limited ability and want to experience the high-life. Perhaps making money fast from drug dealing and accepting the consequences is a worthwhile gambit.
Utter nonsense. The UK offers far more to the young than 95% of the rest of the world.
And zero out of ten have tried hard work.
ye well sed mate!!!
back in are the only "ecstasy" we got wos gettin out of a 16 hour shift down the coal mines with your life in cheque. and we was glad to do it too
youngsters these days to obsesed with their facebook, and selfies and designer drug ecstasy. they wuldnt know a hard days graft if it hit them in the face
its pc gone mad mate!!
back in are the only "ecstasy" we got wos gettin out of a 16 hour shift down the coal mines with your life in cheque. and we was glad to do it too
youngsters these days to obsesed with their facebook, and selfies and designer drug ecstasy. they wuldnt know a hard days graft if it hit them in the face
its pc gone mad mate!!
>This list of hard drugs included cocaine, acid, ecstasy, speed, ketamine
None of those are what I would call 'hard drugs', these are all party drugs. Drug education in this country is a joke, almost everybody knows someone who uses or has used one of these. Hard drugs are Heroin, Crystal Meth, Crack Cocaine, two very different classes of substance for so many reasons.
None of those are what I would call 'hard drugs', these are all party drugs. Drug education in this country is a joke, almost everybody knows someone who uses or has used one of these. Hard drugs are Heroin, Crystal Meth, Crack Cocaine, two very different classes of substance for so many reasons.
"None of those are what I would call 'hard drugs'"
Oooh, you're 'ard.
Oooh, you're 'ard.
It used to be that class A were the "hard drugs" and now it includes class B drugs. Cocaine was classed as a "hard drug" when I was a kid a long time ago when the education was "just say no". The problem is that people seem to think educating in this area will encourage more to try them, a bit like the attitude to sex ed. It is wrong and rather stupid but it is the way it is.
The name or hardness of a drug does not bother me anyone who takes drugs is IMO is an idiot.
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cocaine is a HARD drug. Only a moron or user would class this a lower drug
I don't think you know much about drugs do you? Taken occasionally and in a sensible manner, there isn't much wrong with any of the drugs you mention. But people, particularly the young, are not sensible, and do overdo things, and they do become ill, and occasionally even dead!
And zero out of ten have tried hard work.
>This list of hard drugs included cocaine, acid, ecstasy, speed, ketamine
None of those are what I would call 'hard drugs', these are all party drugs. Drug education in this country is a joke, almost everybody knows someone who uses or has used one of these. Hard drugs are Heroin, Crystal Meth, Crack Cocaine, two very different classes of substance for so many reasons.
None of those are what I would call 'hard drugs', these are all party drugs. Drug education in this country is a joke, almost everybody knows someone who uses or has used one of these. Hard drugs are Heroin, Crystal Meth, Crack Cocaine, two very different classes of substance for so many reasons.
Young people have been experimenting with drugs for at least the past 60 years, it's hardly a revelation.
It's probably healthy in the long run to gets things out of your system at a young age.
It's probably healthy in the long run to gets things out of your system at a young age.
It has been going on a lot longer than 60 years.
Shocking, but not surprising. So much for the mantra started in the 1990s “let kids be kids and give them the freedom to do what they want”. Now those kids of the 90s are now parents and allowing their kids even more freedoms than they had themselves ...and this the result
Too many kids today aspire to be rich and famous celebs, wanting the WAG/champagne lifestyle of success which includes drugs.
Too many kids today aspire to be rich and famous celebs, wanting the WAG/champagne lifestyle of success which includes drugs.
As a teenager most of my friends took a variety drugs beyond alcohol and cannabis. I instinctively realised that if I even took 1 step down that road I would never be able to return. One of the few smart decisions I have made. Just as true now as it ever was.
Are you the same 'Bonehead' who used to sell weed down 'dog do alley' out the back of my old secondary school in the 80s by any chance?
It's great that you were sensible as a teenager, but let's face it, for most teenagers being sensible isn't a priority. We need to re-evaluate the policies that are currently in place as it's clear that they aren't working. Legalise cannabis for people aged 21+ and set the taxes on it fairly low to begin with to crush the blackmarket. This would cut off the main revenue stream for drugs gangs.
Shocking, but not surprising. So much for the mantra started in the 1990s “let kids be kids and give them the freedom to do what they want”. Now those kids of the 90s are now parents and allowing their kids even more freedoms than they had themselves ...and this the result
Too many kids today aspire to be rich and famous celebs, wanting the WAG/champagne lifestyle of success which includes drugs.
Too many kids today aspire to be rich and famous celebs, wanting the WAG/champagne lifestyle of success which includes drugs.
>This list of hard drugs included cocaine, acid, ecstasy, speed, ketamine
None of those are what I would call 'hard drugs', these are all party drugs. Drug education in this country is a joke, almost everybody knows someone who uses or has used one of these. Hard drugs are Heroin, Crystal Meth, Crack Cocaine, two very different classes of substance for so many reasons.
None of those are what I would call 'hard drugs', these are all party drugs. Drug education in this country is a joke, almost everybody knows someone who uses or has used one of these. Hard drugs are Heroin, Crystal Meth, Crack Cocaine, two very different classes of substance for so many reasons.
It used to be that class A were the "hard drugs" and now it includes class B drugs. Cocaine was classed as a "hard drug" when I was a kid a long time ago when the education was "just say no". The problem is that people seem to think educating in this area will encourage more to try them, a bit like the attitude to sex ed. It is wrong and rather stupid but it is the way it is.
"None of those are what I would call 'hard drugs'"
Oooh, you're 'ard.
Oooh, you're 'ard.
They say poverty and living in poor areas ,leads to Drugs , so Is the BBC admitting their is a disproportionate number of White kids living in poverty and poor areas , Drugs are racist
I'm really not surprised. The UK offers very little by way of vision or drive for future generations; selling drugs is a quick earner and for those who want it an easy fix.
Compound that with current curtailment on socialising and it's an epidemic waiting to happen.
Compound that with current curtailment on socialising and it's an epidemic waiting to happen.
And zero out of ten have tried hard work.
They say poverty and living in poor areas ,leads to Drugs , so Is the BBC admitting their is a disproportionate number of White kids living in poverty and poor areas , Drugs are racist
Drug, knife & gang crime through the roof. Purely down to half naked women, gangster wannabe music. Egged on by social media "influencers". Not helped by idiotic mayor's like Khan. Who scrapped knife searches. MET police too scared to be labelled "racist". But quick enough bending the knee for Marxist organisations that want to defund the police. Then there's Starmer who's quick enough on the knee
Ofcourse that is the sole cause. Funny thing is most of the people I know who use drugs are my age or older and I am not a spring lamb anymore, getting closer to mutton.
True. But why the reference to half-naked women?
And zero out of ten have tried hard work.
Drug, knife & gang crime through the roof. Purely down to half naked women, gangster wannabe music. Egged on by social media "influencers". Not helped by idiotic mayor's like Khan. Who scrapped knife searches. MET police too scared to be labelled "racist". But quick enough bending the knee for Marxist organisations that want to defund the police. Then there's Starmer who's quick enough on the knee
Ofcourse that is the sole cause. Funny thing is most of the people I know who use drugs are my age or older and I am not a spring lamb anymore, getting closer to mutton.
True, I said at least 60 years.
Hundreds of years of professional sales of drugs, e.g. the opium wards
Plenty of use of laudanum in the classical world.
At some point someone living in a cave found that some plants gave them good sensations. Who knows when that was!
Hundreds of years of professional sales of drugs, e.g. the opium wards
Plenty of use of laudanum in the classical world.
At some point someone living in a cave found that some plants gave them good sensations. Who knows when that was!
Guess that is the sort of thing the go to schools to pick up. Bad habits meeting bad types in an artificial forced gang. Like many other things decent families would not come into contact with otherwise. School spread diseases. Of the mind too, and pretend teen culture.
Guess that is the sort of thing the go to schools to pick up. Bad habits meeting bad types in an artificial forced gang. Like many other things decent families would not come into contact with otherwise. School spread diseases. Of the mind too, and pretend teen culture.
It has been going on a lot longer than 60 years.
"None of those are what I would call 'hard drugs'"
Oooh, you're 'ard.
Oooh, you're 'ard.
At least three in ten teens who admit to having tried hard drugs are lying because it boosts their ego - remember; "edginess" is a major factor in teen thinking.
How do I know?
Because almost 50 years ago, I & several classmates took part in an anonymous survey regarding drugs & three admitted to using them when they hadn't. One of them was me.
It's all about peer pressure, even anonymously...
How do I know?
Because almost 50 years ago, I & several classmates took part in an anonymous survey regarding drugs & three admitted to using them when they hadn't. One of them was me.
It's all about peer pressure, even anonymously...
I'm guessing you're white? As young black men are often stereotyped as drug users, they might feel under pressure to do the opposite?
Yes, as it was THEIR choice!
Inflammatory headline. 'Hard drugs' means what exactly? This isn't a term used by the UK Home Office or indeed the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime. A number of the substances listed as 'hard' here in fact might be considered 'recreational' drugs.
alcohol and cigarettes are ok though. they're all perfectly acceptable. and taxable.
alcohol and cigarettes are ok though. they're all perfectly acceptable. and taxable.
They wouldn't be for other substances if you could buy them in Tesco's (other major supermarket chains are available)
Given that a pack of fags is about £10, and benefits are about £80 a week, it might seem reasonable that a smoker would need a side hustle of some sort just to feed the habit. In non-crime families with smokers the high price of cigs in UK must contribute to child poverty.
People would and do stab for cigarettes. Raid them from bins, pick them off the floor etc. Cigarettes are up there with heroin. They also subtly warp the minds of addicts such that they think they have the entitled to smoke anywhere and everywhere when the withdrawal starts.
I'm really not surprised. The UK offers very little by way of vision or drive for future generations; selling drugs is a quick earner and for those who want it an easy fix.
Compound that with current curtailment on socialising and it's an epidemic waiting to happen.
Compound that with current curtailment on socialising and it's an epidemic waiting to happen.
Many of the great bands of the 60's and 70's wouldn't be around if it wasn't for acid. I say let them be free!
Psycheledics are not hard drugs, they are medicine.
Hard drugs: cocaine, heroine, crack, methamphetamine.
Hard drugs: cocaine, heroine, crack, methamphetamine.
What utter rubbish. Where on earth do you get these figures from ? Are you trying to telling me that you do surveys that show this ? I don't think so. How about giving the youth of today some credit for a change, instead of all this fake news and over dramatisation of the facts. How about some good news for a change, instead of this rubbish, especially in the present climate.
Inflammatory headline. 'Hard drugs' means what exactly? This isn't a term used by the UK Home Office or indeed the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime. A number of the substances listed as 'hard' here in fact might be considered 'recreational' drugs.
Why is there a need to differentiate between the colours of the teens?
Why is it important
Criminality has more to do with poverty and opportunity than the largely white Altie-righties will admit. But that doesn't suit their narrative, of course
Drugs are illicit, and sexy, and expensive because they are illegal. Start giving coke out free at the GP surgery and see how cool it looks then, with queues of users waiting outside for their fix. Legalise and you take the money and power out of gangs, as well as being able to legislate for purity, strength, and license who can sell. Would also save money on policing & make tax revenue instead.
There's a good reason class A drugs are class A irrespective if they are pharmaceutical grade, they are damaging to your health in a severe and addictive way. Your body but remember you're playing Russian roulette with your physical and mental health, your choice. Don't say you weren't warned.
I stopped doing coke when I saw a mate drop a tiny crumb of it and get on his hands and knees trying to pry it out of a crack in the pavement.. eurgh. that was enough for me. before that though I did coke a fair bit, but could take it or leave it
cannabis was an out and out addiction, very difficult to stop
cannabis was an out and out addiction, very difficult to stop
Britain has failed, no future.
They learbn from the lying leaders called tory party
That's why your kids are addicts
They learbn from the lying leaders called tory party
That's why your kids are addicts
Now that we’re admitting cannabis is safer than alcohol, can we finally talk legalisation?
What utter rubbish. Where on earth do you get these figures from ? Are you trying to telling me that you do surveys that show this ? I don't think so. How about giving the youth of today some credit for a change, instead of all this fake news and over dramatisation of the facts. How about some good news for a change, instead of this rubbish, especially in the present climate.
We really don't have the data to say for sure which is more addictive as of yet. Addicts per capita probably skews more towards alcohol if anything, though obviously legality and availability impact this.
Cannabis *isn't* addictive. It simply does not create a physical dependency.
Alcohol, on the other hand, is the second most addictive substance known behind only heroin.
Alcohol, on the other hand, is the second most addictive substance known behind only heroin.
Wrong :) I have friends with liver-cirhosis.
Utter rubbish
Depends on the person, like all addictions.
The war on drugs has raged for decades with billions spent on policing, with this as the effect. Prohibition didn't work with alcohol, and it clearly isn't working with drugs.
Kids will always climb trees and break arms, so we build play parks with soft landings to reduce the harms instead of banning climbing.
Legalised, taxed, & licensed drugs with strength & purity controls is the answer.
Kids will always climb trees and break arms, so we build play parks with soft landings to reduce the harms instead of banning climbing.
Legalised, taxed, & licensed drugs with strength & purity controls is the answer.
It keeps the market free for the shadowy people making billions.
Legalised drugs is not the answer and never will be.
Common sense? The Government would never allow that.
Besides which, a lot of the Tory base are the "My kids would never do drugs" kinda people (despite all evidence to the contrary) and they don't tend to think outside the tiny box.
If the government legalised, taxed and regulated drugs, they would face a lot of backlash from their supporters (although everyone else would be pleased). Removed
Besides which, a lot of the Tory base are the "My kids would never do drugs" kinda people (despite all evidence to the contrary) and they don't tend to think outside the tiny box.
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I used to think exactly the same as you. My younger sister died of heroine abuse at 35. But I travel to Vancouver quite a bit where it's legalised. And the place stinks.!!! You can't go anywhere without breathing in the strong smell of weed, it's everywhere. So much so, that I wouldn't legalise it.
A trillion upticks!
I do agree, and there is a good example of how a sensible drug decriminalization programme can work in Portugal. Worldwide, we need to be clever against the mafias, we owe this to our young people - https://transformdrugs.org/blog/drug-decriminalisation-in-portugal-setting-the-record-straight
Cannabis should have been legalised decades ago. But other drugs not so. Even cocaine, delivered like pizza now, is nasty. becomes habit forming and money draining and is a really bad thing to be taking regularly.
I've thought this for years, as it seems the only way to control the market and cut off the suppliers/ dealers millions.
Did you read the headline or read the article? Per the article - and not the headline - usage has fallen.
There is a reason junkies are called that, because they consume junk.
We need to tackle the root reasons that people take junk rather than encouraging them.
I mean everybody seems to complain about Amazon and the little tax they pay, what if they started trading drugs? The money won't suddenly end up in your community..have you seen the boarded up high street shops that was even before covid..
We need to tackle the root reasons that people take junk rather than encouraging them.
I mean everybody seems to complain about Amazon and the little tax they pay, what if they started trading drugs? The money won't suddenly end up in your community..have you seen the boarded up high street shops that was even before covid..
Legalisation, regulation, taxation is obviously the answer, prohibition has never worked. Most kids are basically nice, but they have to interact with criminals to score their gear. I knew some very dodgy types in my youth, people who were genuinely scary & dangerous, that I never would have come into contact with if I'd been able to buy dope as easily as booze.
LOL @ this report - Everyone I knew in the late 80's were doing them - and then some. It's the forbidden fruit they all approach. Legalise and remove the "novelty" :)
The types of drugs references at not "hard Drugs" although do fall in to the "Class A" category. Honestly, having live through the 80's and 90's the drugs from my understanding were softer, yet purer. These days, they've been cut with everything and something else - making per kilo returns a lot higher - but causing far more medical issues than there original forms. Just my 2 cents from the 80s
Class A is the definition of had drugs. Not a good definition, but legally it is so.
ye well sed mate!!!
back in are the only "ecstasy" we got wos gettin out of a 16 hour shift down the coal mines with your life in cheque. and we was glad to do it too
youngsters these days to obsesed with their facebook, and selfies and designer drug ecstasy. they wuldnt know a hard days graft if it hit them in the face
its pc gone mad mate!!
back in are the only "ecstasy" we got wos gettin out of a 16 hour shift down the coal mines with your life in cheque. and we was glad to do it too
youngsters these days to obsesed with their facebook, and selfies and designer drug ecstasy. they wuldnt know a hard days graft if it hit them in the face
its pc gone mad mate!!
The war on drugs has raged for decades with billions spent on policing, with this as the effect. Prohibition didn't work with alcohol, and it clearly isn't working with drugs.
Kids will always climb trees and break arms, so we build play parks with soft landings to reduce the harms instead of banning climbing.
Legalised, taxed, & licensed drugs with strength & purity controls is the answer.
Kids will always climb trees and break arms, so we build play parks with soft landings to reduce the harms instead of banning climbing.
Legalised, taxed, & licensed drugs with strength & purity controls is the answer.
I'd take heroin if I could get hold of it. Modern life is psychological torture. What a finely tuned hell we have created.
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Life is tough yes, but no one should suffer alone like this - please seek the mental help you so obviously need from your post
The types of drugs references at not "hard Drugs" although do fall in to the "Class A" category. Honestly, having live through the 80's and 90's the drugs from my understanding were softer, yet purer. These days, they've been cut with everything and something else - making per kilo returns a lot higher - but causing far more medical issues than there original forms. Just my 2 cents from the 80s
I'm curious as to what measures were in place to discount the false positives and false negatives. Have they included everyone who said they've taken drugs because they think it makes them sound cool? Have they excluded everyone who denied it because they think admitting it in a survey gets them in trouble? Or have they corrected for both?
Psychological dependency on cannabis is a very real thing - addiction can be of the mind too.
I agree it's less dangerous, but pretending there's no danger doesn't help.
I agree it's less dangerous, but pretending there's no danger doesn't help.
cannabis IS addictive. trust me. you're probably young and just spouting the old retterick you use to convince yourself. like I did
20 years later it took me a lot of effort to stop
you know what else.. if I didnt do it I would own a house by now. literally hundreds of thousands.
mugs game
20 years later it took me a lot of effort to stop
you know what else.. if I didnt do it I would own a house by now. literally hundreds of thousands.
mugs game
No. Tobacco is up there with skag. A lot of people struggle to give up cannabis because it is the tobacco they smoke with it that is the addiction.
The types of drugs references at not "hard Drugs" although do fall in to the "Class A" category. Honestly, having live through the 80's and 90's the drugs from my understanding were softer, yet purer. These days, they've been cut with everything and something else - making per kilo returns a lot higher - but causing far more medical issues than there original forms. Just my 2 cents from the 80s
Clapton, Richards, Jagger etc...still getting by.....lol....but yeah, greats like Kossoff gone. Some of the footage of Clapton playing sublimely while high as a kite are astounding.
At least three in ten teens who admit to having tried hard drugs are lying because it boosts their ego - remember; "edginess" is a major factor in teen thinking.
How do I know?
Because almost 50 years ago, I & several classmates took part in an anonymous survey regarding drugs & three admitted to using them when they hadn't. One of them was me.
It's all about peer pressure, even anonymously...
How do I know?
Because almost 50 years ago, I & several classmates took part in an anonymous survey regarding drugs & three admitted to using them when they hadn't. One of them was me.
It's all about peer pressure, even anonymously...
Applying racial thinking in a totally unwarranted manner... nice.
I've never even heard black people being stereotyped as drug users
I thought 'casual drug use' was a white, often 'upper/middle-class' problem in this country. People with money. People like Gove
I thought 'casual drug use' was a white, often 'upper/middle-class' problem in this country. People with money. People like Gove
Ahhh.... The ol' 'race card'?
Trumps all things doesn't it?
Vaccine uptake (for many odd reasons), stopping kids taking knives into school (because stop & search infringes their 'rights'), and so on...
Still, easy to blame after the events (and find fault) than find a reason to be pro-active and deal with the problems head on?
Trumps all things doesn't it?
Vaccine uptake (for many odd reasons), stopping kids taking knives into school (because stop & search infringes their 'rights'), and so on...
Still, easy to blame after the events (and find fault) than find a reason to be pro-active and deal with the problems head on?
This world is changed and not for the better when I grew up my parents taught me that things like drugs ruin your life and that you walk away and live a better life today everything is acceptable no matter what it is mainly because kids and parents don’t talk anymore I know which childhood I prefer and had certainly not this one
"kids and parents don't talk anymore" - that's a sweeping generalisation if every I saw one. And all generalisations are false.
don't take drugs it will impede your ability to slave at ASDA for 50 years for minimum wage
I have two points: The headline, no doubt for effect, is that 1 in 10 teenagers have taken hard drugs but that means 9 in 10 have not. Secondly, there seems to be a great emphasis on making BAME teenagers look 'less destructive' to themselves & society than white teenagers. If we are to build an equal society then we need to stop the differentiation, they are all just teenagers.
BAME figures are skewed by demographics that have little freedom. Fortunately many other teens do. I always made it clear that drugs including legal ones will feel good else why would anyone use them. However all pose a risk to mental and physical health and can be addictive including alcohol.
Too much debate and not enough action. The law must be harder. Higher penalties for any drug use and dealing.
Education is needed also.
Education is needed also.
Really - Take a look at China mate. Works over there. Obedience is built in to 99.99% of the population.
Tax them and then the UK will be back on its feet in no time.
And have a workforce stoned, driving under influence, killing others, as if the NHS is not stressed out enough...
You will never stop drug use.
Legalise, produce in regulated dosages the same as any over the counter pharmacy drugs, sell with the appropriate warnings as alcohol and aspirin and TAX it.
The billions would be better spent on health and schooling rather than guns and BMWs.
Legalise, produce in regulated dosages the same as any over the counter pharmacy drugs, sell with the appropriate warnings as alcohol and aspirin and TAX it.
The billions would be better spent on health and schooling rather than guns and BMWs.
You are right about not stopping it. Same with prostitution and gambling. If thre is a demand, and someone willing to profit from supply, then it will always be there. Prohibition demonstrates that. But it is managing problems so as to reduce harm that matters.
I'd take heroin if I could get hold of it. Modern life is psychological torture. What a finely tuned hell we have created.
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