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Posted by: skibummer 07/20/2003, 21:30:19  (About author)
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"One of the problems with the propaganda aspect of the war on drugs is they tend to pick the most extreme examples of drug problems and then portray those as if they are everyones experience" Or ridiculous ones. Remember the old: This is your brain, this is your brain on drugs? As someone pointed out to me. The second made MORE sense. Who eats raw eggs. Kids are quick to see exactly that sort of thing. And they see they hypocrisy of the father figure harping on drug use w/ a beer in his hand. "Heroin is MUCH more dangerous than morphine" I do have a bit of a quibble with this one statement. Yes it is more potent. In the same way a $10.00 bill is more valuable than a $1.00 bill. But if you use 10 of the ones it will be the same. Yes Heroin is converted to morphine in the body. But it pretty much does nothing until it is converted to morphine. "As for alcohol, as I said, I think alcohol should be more strictly regulated. There's no reason it needs to be sold in supermarkets or convenience stores." That IS the situation here in Virginia. I don't see where it makes a lot of difference. I remember seeing a study years ago that basically said the problem was more a function of the person (an addictive personality if you will) than the substance it self. While I don't think it is totally accurate, there is probably a great deal of truth in it. It would explain the alcoholic who when unable to get ethanol will use methanol. |
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