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Do you ever feel like we are be cheated re drugs?
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<blockquote data-quote="SuZir" data-source="post: 669366" data-attributes="member: 14557"><p>That is true everywhere. But when you are lied by the school, it causes quite a backlash as those early drug educators learnt. Kids at my days didn't believe a word about anything said about drugs at school after they lied to us. And around that time also pop culture, movies etc. tended to be rather moralistic and black and white when it came to drugs (what they actually used was another business, but PR was still clean), but it didn't stop us trying this and that. I'm a kid of "Just say no!"-time after all. </p><p></p><p>Sex ed was effective, because there was so much of it and it took away all the excitement of the topic. After you spend three hours of putting and re-putting a condom on banana and have your eleventh quizzes about symptoms of condyloma, difference between frotteurism and toucherism and smallest details of reproductive organs, I can guarantee all excitement has vanished. And your biology teacher in her fifties after all that telling you to remember that sex can be fun and important part of adult life quality is enough to make almost anyone to consider celibate as legitimate way of life for rest of your life, when you are 13, 14 or 15. Drug education did the opposite.</p><p></p><p>But that of course was just communication failure in our system. But I'm starting to wonder, if this whole policy adopted against drugs half of the century ago was actually an error too. And in my country it was in fact decided by flipping a coin. Too very different drug policies got same amount of votes in parliament and flip of the coin decided that we were to pursue the criminalisation route. </p><p></p><p>Drug addiction destroys lives, that is without question. But have our drug policies also failed us? And are we even now given truth about the problem and costs our policies have had on us?</p><p></p><p>For example to me it feel more than slightly immoral that big pharmaceutics companies are making huge profits by manufacturing and selling huge amounts of drugs for addicts to abuse. And at the same time someone selling just a few of those same pills forward ending up to jail for it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SuZir, post: 669366, member: 14557"] That is true everywhere. But when you are lied by the school, it causes quite a backlash as those early drug educators learnt. Kids at my days didn't believe a word about anything said about drugs at school after they lied to us. And around that time also pop culture, movies etc. tended to be rather moralistic and black and white when it came to drugs (what they actually used was another business, but PR was still clean), but it didn't stop us trying this and that. I'm a kid of "Just say no!"-time after all. Sex ed was effective, because there was so much of it and it took away all the excitement of the topic. After you spend three hours of putting and re-putting a condom on banana and have your eleventh quizzes about symptoms of condyloma, difference between frotteurism and toucherism and smallest details of reproductive organs, I can guarantee all excitement has vanished. And your biology teacher in her fifties after all that telling you to remember that sex can be fun and important part of adult life quality is enough to make almost anyone to consider celibate as legitimate way of life for rest of your life, when you are 13, 14 or 15. Drug education did the opposite. But that of course was just communication failure in our system. But I'm starting to wonder, if this whole policy adopted against drugs half of the century ago was actually an error too. And in my country it was in fact decided by flipping a coin. Too very different drug policies got same amount of votes in parliament and flip of the coin decided that we were to pursue the criminalisation route. Drug addiction destroys lives, that is without question. But have our drug policies also failed us? And are we even now given truth about the problem and costs our policies have had on us? For example to me it feel more than slightly immoral that big pharmaceutics companies are making huge profits by manufacturing and selling huge amounts of drugs for addicts to abuse. And at the same time someone selling just a few of those same pills forward ending up to jail for it. [/QUOTE]
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