Brave Or Stupid?

[ToraToraTora]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-25328656

[Gromit]

// how would you address the issue of "passive" cannabis use? //

Anyone who wants to use cannabis now can easily do so. When cannabis was reclassified a few years back it did not result in a significant increase in useage. So the poblem of passive doping wouldn't really be much different than it is now. If you are subject to testing then I assume you now avoid people who smoke drugs. So if it were legalised, you would still avoid them. They would be subject to the smoking ban in public buildings. Your only exposure may be outdoors and is unlikely to get into you bloodstream.

[Gromit]

AOG

Most people start drinking beer and may try harder liquor such as whiskey, vodka or Gin. That does not mean they suddenly switch to drinking a bottle of whiskey a day. Some will. Some will never touch it again. Some may have is as an occasional treat. The same applies to drugs.

[anotheoldgit]

Gromit

The difference being Gromit that alcohol although it could be classed as a drug is not illegal as those others are.

[Kromovaracun]

"The difference being Gromit that alcohol although it could be classed as a drug is not illegal as those others are. "

Yeah, but Gromit is talking about how likely people are to move from one drug to another. How legal they are is totally irrelevant to that.

[emmie]

those i have known, including a number of friends and a couple of distant family members who dabbled in drugs, did so from early teens, they also drank but not in large quantities, drugs became not just the odd spliff, but uppers and downers, then more pills, then onto the harder stuff, heroin, LSD, leaving life long habits, and leaving me with a lifelong hatred of drugs, it can happen to anyone, anywhere. Drinking as they say is legal, and does have lots of knock on effects to those who drink heavily and their families and friends. Having seen more friends die through drink, not sure which i would class as the real problem.

[Kromovaracun]

That's the thing - the government doesn't own peoples' bodies, and I don't really see that it can tell them that it's okay to put one kind of poison in but prosecute if they put others in. The main ones that are legal (tobacco, alcohol, caffeine) are really just legal due to cultural/historical circumstances.