I don't think drug use should be illegal. The government should just get over it and chill. I mean, I've had some wonderful and terrible experiences on drugs. However it was my choice. If I needed help I could go and get it. However, drugs should not be illegal. You should only get into trouble if you actually comit and crime. Then you should get extra help for you if drugs were involved. Like rehab if you really need it. Just finding pot in someone's bag and them getting arrested.. that'sunfair
this is the only person i know who can cast a shadow with his big nose.oh and he supports paedophile groups.gives it loads of mouth,but ask the turd what he thinks about the human rights in china,he will be quiet.why because he is studying chinese and has a self interest.its self self self with rimming withorifice. he a turd faced big,nose hototer wanker.
I`m American and I have done almost all drugs besides Heroin and Crack. I`ve done Ecstacy, Cocaine, (regretfully) Crystal Meth, Weed, pain pills and I think that`s it. But I, as a FORMER illegal substabce user, think it would be smart to legalize drugs. The mafia, gangs and other dangerous people who make money off of it would disappate. But that means WAY WAY less revenue for the governments and police. Fat chance.
"The problem however is not the recreational users who take a pill or two at the weekend. It is the trade that should be targeted and not the individual users but to patronise these casual users by saying their use of recreational drugs is an illness is not going to combat anything. Legalisation of drugs is one of the only realistic ways of combating addiction and the shady world around drug trafficking, dealing and usage" I agree.
Why do you think tobacco and alcohol do the most damage to society?
Is it because its legal and thereby more commonly available...
There has always been some legal mind altering substances legal in any society, but I dont see that as a valid argument to make other substances legal as well. From the looks of it, to me, it seems like tobacco is on the way out, but I guess some pro drugs users, ironically, would call that a bad thing.
Drugs fund terrorism that kills our soldiers and innocent people - ours and there own.
We should be growing food - not drugs and drugs general fuck your body up anyway. Why the fuck would you wont to take them anway? If you want a good time just a go on the piss with ya mates ffs.
If you can't handle the world and you need a drug to have fun or relax, your mind is weak and you are more than an addict, you are a perfect candidate for euthenasia.
Drug traffickers and dealers should be jailed. Manufacturers should be executed.
Users should be re-educated at their own expense, and if they don't have the money for it, it's a debt they have to pay via government issued slave work.
i'd agree with 90% of what you are saying, although i wouldn't call heroin a 'casual drug', i'd say canabis was a more casual one, as it is a lot more widely used, and less harmful. you have some great opinions, and i love your videos!
The notion that using soft drugs leads someone to using harder and harder drugs is only true now because people are getting their drugs from drug dealers who'll make more profit from the harder stuff. Imagine buying your drugs from a pharmacist who'd offer you proper advice and safety tips about its use. Leah Betts tragically died from drinking too much water - advice given to ravers - and not from the effects of ecstacy. I don't use drugs at all but I want those who do to have proper advice.
The one thing i would strongly disagree with is the "casual use of heroin" its prety much impossible to use heroin casually. But the people addicted should not be charged, maybe some form of compulsary rehab where attending treatment would hold back a criminal charge, a bit like the probation system so if they step out of line they do get charged. Coke is also highly addictive but i do know some people who use it "casually" but i think they are tempting fate. Health matter not a criminal one!
pretty much agree'd with you on the legalization business of drugs. Also on the recreational use of them. The statement that addiction to these drugs is an illness does hold some truth, when it is an actual addiction rather than casual use. But whose to say which is which. Its tricky. You can really only go case to case with this one.
why is there this hysteria about illegal drugs? why do peoples minds have such a fear and active hate for recreational drug use?
there are terrible consequences if a person cannot use them correctly, but the main causes of drug addiction and misuse is that society wont edjucatate people on how to use them possitively, because they can be used positivly!
it is the governments fault that drugs are a problem, because it is the government who made them illegal
@stefanscally And at 19 years of age i dont think you are really old enough or mature enough to think you know more than me. I have been to more countries than you have had hot dinners seen death and destruction been in riots and places where you would shit your pants and want to run home to mummy. So when your a little older and seen a bit more than MTV Google and You Tube. Come back and tell me to think about opening my mouth. But when you do make sure you are a man not a student smokin pot
COMPLETE IDIOT. He is also a student teacher so god only knows what he is teacing his pupils. All drug users are ill or they would not be doing it. Its a drug its addictive they are breaking the law taking the drugs. More people die from smoking because more people smoke than take drugs. Its like saying more women give birth than men. As a student teacher you need to look at yourself and perhaps stop taking drugs yourself. You are a silly little boy who only knows what books and google tell you
I would like to point out that you ranted quite well, but provided no facts to back up your positions. You have acctually only made yourself look stupid. Come back when you can back up what you say. Thank you.
@pamew Perhaps thats because what you are doing is illegal. How can you compare an illegal action of drug taking to a legal action of drinking. Its like saying shop lifting is the same as paying for an item or driving a stolen car is the same as driving one thats legally yours. You may think smoking cannabis is ok but by smoking it regularly shows its addictive & you either smoke it to get high like drink gets you drunk or you smoke it because you cant go without it. Its a drug your hooked on it
It's in no way similar to stealing/shoplifting. It harms no one, I pay for what I smoke, and for your information, I use it as pain relief and an effective anti inflammatory, (much as glaucoma patients do).
I smoke it regularly because cortical steroids give me brittle bones, water retention and at one point sent me into a state of self destructive psychosis, which took months to recover from and lost me my job.
@pamew SO WHY SMOKE IT THEN IS IT BECAUSE YOUR A REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE STILL GOIN THROUGH PUBERTY WHEN YOU GET THROUGH IT STOP THE DRUGS AND GET OUT AND FUCK SOME WOMEN ITS MUCH MORE FUN THAN WANKING WHILST STONED
@dannylovinglisa That should be "you're a rebel" not "your". And I'm an adult with a full time job who just happens to smoke rather than drink. So I guess that just leaves you with your homoerotic thoughts of me masturbating. Good luck with that champ.
u should think a lot harder b4 opening ur mouth 2 speak, 1 could make ur arguments and do it without ur ignorance and lies
ignorance: simply because the government makes a drug ilegal dosnt make it worse than a legal 1, is the government some all knowing god, would you say the same if you lived in russia or germany 50 years ago. (say u would, make my day)
lies: its not like saying more women give birth than men, tobaco kills more tobaco users than pot or ecstacy kills pot or ecstacy users. tit
@stefanscally Perhaps thats because its LEGAL to smoke tobaco so more people smoke tobaco . So more law abiding people who smoke tobaco might get ill or die from their LEGAL habit. I take it from your strong reaction you are one of the pot smokers who thinks its good to smoke an illegal product in the UK. Well good luck to you , i take my hat off to all you drug smokers. You keep breaking the law and driving while high . Then when you get caught or have a crash dont ask the NHS for help..
@AUTORECOVERYUK: no it isnt dont be fucking stupid no one who wants to take drugs lets the law stop them. no one has died directly because of smoking grass simply because it's nowhere near as toxic or carcinogenic as tobacco FACT. Do some research it always amazes me how people think they know everything about drugs just because they DONT take them.
@bawsaq Just the kind of reply i would expect from another drug taking worshiper. Keep smoking your drugs and breaking the law. As its people like you that my taxes pay for when your in prison or in re hab. As for knowing nothing about drugs i think your wrong there but i am not lowering myself to your standards to show you breaking the law to get high is wrong. You keep on doing it you keep breaking the law. Have a happy lawless life and one day you will see how silly taking drugs are...
where do my taxes go then ya fuking retard? And yes I will keep getting high even if it's just to piss off losers like you I'd rather people thought of me as a lawless scumbag than a boring friendless twat like you. And finally no that day will never come because I know the risks and I know It costs a lot of money but guess what I dont care it's my state of mind and I'll alter it if i want.
@pamew Thats a good idea but you will have a long wait as i dont drink the stuff or tea come to that. Oh and i dont drink alcohol so it looks like i am not addicted to anything. Except work. Perhaps thats why i own 3 thriving companies which keeps me busy and employs several people. So having a clear head and not drinking or doing drugs has looked after me in life. But there again just think where i could of been if i was a drug taking pot head. Oh yer i could be in prison or on the streets .
@pamew Words of wisdom from a person who smokes drugs i gues. Well you know what i might be a "cunt" but i'm a clear level headed hard working happy "cunt" who has never been addicted to a man made drug i've never had a criminal record or ever been out of work in my life. So if thats what a "cunt" is , I'll happily be one over someone who needs drugs to get through life. So thank you for your wisdom and wish you luck in your world of drugs.
@pamew I see from your channel on you tube your a little boy of 22. So at your age you aint got much of an idea on life have you. When your a little older and been around life a bit more not just lived your life on you tube facebook and google earth then come back and tell me i know nothing. I was in the forces before you was born little boy protecting places so little boys like you could grow up and have a sad life of drug taking. Now i think i hear your mummy calling its bed time for you...
@AUTORECOVERYUK That should be "you're* a little boy of 22." And I'm 20. And "your" is the possessive form. If YOU'RE going to try to patronise me in written format, make sure you can actually frame YOUR basic sentences properly.
@pamew Who cares if i made a couple of mistakes LITTLE BOY. You understood it and got the point. So perhaps now you'll grow up. Oh and if you put your age is 22 on your you tube channel when you are now saying you are 20 what else is a lie coming from you. Night night sleep tight dont let the bed bugs bite...
@AUTORECOVERYUK Not that I need to explain this to you, but My age is two years younger than stated on my profile because I had to up for a US adult account in order to view and save videos related to school work such as film studies. I can't help it if a system requires you to input an age higher than your own to let you see material you need.
Yeah I think that calling drug use an 'illness' just gives people another excuse or defense.
Legalizing and regulating drugs and providing them at clinics would protect people from the impurities and such in illegal drugs, and the overdosing problem. If they were provided in clean small doses in supervised environment it would still be terrible, but preferable. It would not be a terrible idea for dealing with addicts, at least they are less likely to die from their addiction.
I think that the reason there are less deaths from illegal drugs is because they are illegal. People use alcohol and tobacco much more regularly than illegal supstances which are unlikely to be taken every day except for adicts. Being illegal makes these drugs more for something 'special' from my experience of my friends drug use. If people began using cannibus in every cigerette they smoked which may happen if legal then the effects would most likely be much worse.
Putting drugs users in prison is far more harmful than the drugs themselves. We must put an end to these crazy drugs laws with stupid politicians taking their policies from redtop newspapers rather than people with any scientific knowledge.
People who are arrested for drug use need to be sent to get medical help(like rehab). Sending them to jail does nothing to help the addiction. They just sit in jail, and are not rehabilitated.
Hold on just a moment. Surely the majority of drug traffickers are users or at least below the poverty line? Otherwise why run the risk? You won't stop those at the top of the chain cos there is so much £££ involved!
haha, How long did you practice the name of the UN's head of Drugs and crime before filming this?? I remember my dingy Halls of Residence too! Keep it up! Change the world!
lay off him! He has got a point, particually with cannabis. As a cannabis user I know that in the drugs world, most of gang crime is caused by competitive dealers, but also there are so many young drug dealers of cannabis. If it was legalised the government could recieve huge funds in tax, crime would be lowered, less youngsters would take it, and stronger strains could be eliminated. However I don't agree with legalising many other drugs
this lad is talking absolute bollocks... where do weirdos like this get the confidence to make videos of 'their views'
You dont see any normal people doing this sort of thing (as in anyone with their head screwed on) because they dont assume to push their views onto others.
But i suppose you get alot of free time only having one media studies class a week.
he shoots himself in the foot because he says that legal "drugs" like alcohol and tobacco cause more social problems overall than the illegal ones! This is because they are legal and easily obtainable. If you legalised cocaine for example then consumption would increase, problems would increase surrounding it and it would then be akin to alcohol and tobacco eventually.
Never let your children study any of the social sciences they will spend the rest of their lives being useless sanctimonious pillocks dedicated to ruining the country like this boring little prick.
Part 1: Now I agree that dealing should be treated far more seriously that taking, and also that punishments should be set for each drug individually, but I am strongly against legalising consumption, a small dose of a drug which is one of the less harmful ones in a controlled situation rarely poses too many problems, but the cost as a whole to society will almost always be noticeable in the majority of instances, crime caused by drugs (to fund and the mental effects of drugs)
Part 2: have a high level of impact, and even though there is the argument of what someone does to themselves is their own business is valid, it rarely actually only affects the guilty user.What about parents who end up not buying their children food so they can buy drugs, what about in some cases where people get mugged to buy drugs. Thats only those directly affected but the cost to society for welfare payments and health costs is also something that affects everyone indirectly.
Don't legalise all drugs, but I admit doing this might, and I only say might, reduce the crimes done by addicts if they can get their substances legally.
"Substance abuse cause huge problems across society "
it is neither the place of yourself nor the government to tell people what they may or may not put into their body
if i want to kill myself by doin smack 5 times a day every day till i die it really has fuck all to do with you. not that i feel you should pay me benifits to do so or anything like that, why the fuck should you. but if i pay my own way its my business and noone elses
nor is it any place of the state to interfere in ANY private transaction, to put limits on what people may or may not sell each other, to tell landlords what people may or may not do on their own property
all you twats saying people shouldnt be allowed are just bringing us ever closer to 1984
But I have to disagree with you about the recreational users. Quoting Elite Squad, "How many children we have to lose to the traffic so a lazy, rich boy can roll his spliff?"
Most people who use ilegal drugs are patrocinating drug traffic in underdeveloped countries, so it doesn't matter if they're having fun, they're still responsable for the violence and deaths caused by drug traffic, even if they don't see it from their confortable little homes. And in my opinion, anyone who does that is ill.
(Sorry if my english is bad, I'm not a native speaker)
I agree that drugs should be legalized. The money that's spent to fight traffic would be best spent with campaings for drugs awareness. It's like condoms: it sucks having to use them, but most people know what can happen if you don't. Besides that, if the drugs were legalized, the drug traffic would stop, and many deaths would be avoided.
lol seriously rhymingwithoranges are you really that stupid? why do you think there are so many more deaths from the "legal" drugs such ast tobacco? because it is in fact legal and because of such more people use it and it more accepted in society. if you legalise other substance such as cocaine and ecstacy then in time people will find it more acceptable to use because it would be legal and more and more people would use it and die from it. grow up
you right, saying that ALL people who use drugs are addicted to them isn't true. i mean it depends on what they're DOING. lie cocaine, heroin, and crystal are pretty serious while marijuana can be pretty casual sometimes. i don't think drugs should be legal, mostly because i dont think its OKAY to feel a false sense of happiness. but yeah, not everyone who does drugs is addicted.
I think drug use is can be either or. Some patients get addicted to drug use after experiencing an injury and taking pain control meds for it. Others use drugs as a form of escape, a self medication for depression and persona disorders. Others use drugs for pleasure and thrill seeking. The later I find immoral, and the fomer two I feel need to seek medical help.
Legalise all drugs and let people kill themselves on them if they want to.
At least this way, the police will be freed up and the government can make lots of tax money from the drug use. Like they do with nicotine and alcohol.
Why do so many states in AMERICA (who enstated the anti cannabis laws worldwide) now infact have medicinal marijuana?
Why Do the goverment spill scare tactics about substances which COULD cause mental illness in VERY FEW people, But all you need is some ID and to be of age and you can smeer the inside of the your lungs with tar or rott out your liver with alcahol.
"Normal" Should be Veiwed As such to be "Abnormal" if the "Normality" Is what is what the goverments want you to abide by.
Cannabis is safer than any other drug out there, what makes it dangerious is the fact you can get contaminated cannabis from a dealer, Alot of problems surrounding drug use are infact direct causes of the substances themselfs being illegal, I.E. Cannabis production out of a regulated system.
I will end my argument with this: It took a group of SO-CALLEDignorant, uneducated, poor, ugly, ex-slave monkey niggers, to teach the world that you do not have to use violence, use weapons, degrade people or BREAK THE LAW to obtain personal liberties and freedoms from your government. Breaking the law puts users in the same boat as ANY other law offender. All law breakers feel their actions are justified in one way or another. What makes pot smokers any different? Fight for your rights legally
Cannabis, for the most part and like alcohol, is consumed responsibly. Please visit places like Portugal and the Netherlands to see this first hand. It's very close to being made legal and taxable in California and other states. Britain and other countries seem to like living in the dark ages, with rules to control people and interfere with activities they undertake in their own homes that harm nobody else. Britain is not a democratic nation if prejudices can't be overcome to help the most ill!
I'm sure everyones experience with drugs is different. I know what i have seen But I do understand cannabis is less dangerous than some other drugs. However it has the same effect...unpredictable and uncontrollable. Alcohol can be consumed w/o the intent of getting drunk. Weed does not. No one smokes weed to jsut smoke it. It's to get high. Plus its almost impossible not to on the first hit. However, it takes several drinks to reach a point of drunk that equals the high of weed. Alcohol is safer
Have you seen the table of harm on the BBC website? Have you bothered to read government reports? Cannabis can not be attributed to not one death whereas alcohol kills millions world wide every year. Tobacco is a similar story. Ever noticed how much tax the government rakes in from those products?
Sorry but weed doesn't get you high on your first hit..i agree and disagree with what your saying but alcohol is very addictive compared to weed it also causes much more serious effects when your drunk you lose many senses and kindof lose control of some of your actions when your high (on weed) you have at least have some control e.g crossing the road is much easier high than drunk :p
If someone is willing to break the law to purchase it, then they will be willing to break the law while using it. If legal it will be recieve the same bans as tobacco and alcohol. no smoking inside buildings, not high while driving, no open containers=no rolled joints inside car, no access to minors in your home, etc. It will be taxed highly and fltered. So getting high will still be a bummer just more expensive and less potent.
I am offended because you share your opinion without doing any research on the true effects cannabis has on human behaviour. Ask any police officer or hospital worker and they will tell you that cannabis users are non violent individuals. Alcohol causes violence towards and increased costs to the police and health professionals. Bothe those professions are literally begging for an end to prohibition. They are on the front line and they see the truth of the matter every day.
Im uneducated but you are name calling. Ok, Sarah I have partyed most of my adult life. I have seen people & friends use many drugs and abuse alcohol. I am speaking from experience. Drug users arent responsible. Ive seen: unprotected 3somes in bathrooms due to ecstacy, defacation on streets byy weed users, drag racing on public streets due to weed & coke...much more. I stayed sober & watched. I do not need the opinions of others to know drugs changed nice ppl to reckless ones.This is my story
My cousin's husband killed their newborn chilld and then shot himself. I know very well the damage that prohibition does to society. He could have gone to rehab and got help if there was any at that time.
And your comment about banner waving and protesting is a bit late. Check out my YouTube page to see who I am and what I do, I am a high profile Medical Cannabis campaigner recently chosen by the BBC for citizenship project and more recently, a middle classed ladies mag. The tide is turning!
WIth the obvious and uncontrollable abuse of alcohol and prescribed medication, coupled with harmful tobacco, how can anyone advocate the legalization of recreational and street drugs? Users are criminals. It's illegal to purchase therefore thay are breaking the law and deserve punishment. Without users there aren't: dealers, cartels, drug crime, drug related deaths or crimes, or drug related arrests. No demand , so supply.
I suppose you think that the thousands of people who use cannabis for medical reasons are wrong too. To this date it is still the most effective medicine for Multiple Sclerosis and has killed nobody so far. Would you prefer those people to use pharmaceuticals that routinely kill around 20,000 people a year in Britain alone.
You seriously need educating and to do away with your bigoted attitude. Why? Because it's offensive!
I am not a bigot. I am expressing my point of view...just like you are. I am not name calling...like you are. I am not being offensive...like you are. All I am saying is that there are enough legal drugs and vices for people to delve into, why add another one? If alcohol, tobacco and presription drugs aren't numbing people enough, chances are legalizing marijuana isn't the answer. Society as a whole will not benefit. Sex is free & people still pay for it. Weed wont cure human lawlessness
You should be campaigning for alcohol prohibition then. However, that would be inhumane and dangerous. Please look up alcohol prohibition in the US. It was a disaster that killed half a million people. Drug prohibition has resulted in the same and worse. Se through the newspaper headlines and political lies to get to the truth.
The key component that failed prohibition alcohol and drugs is the users. Illegal drug users feel they are somehow not to blame for drug crime, violence and economic money waste on solving the problem. If users obeyed the law and did not buy then no one would sell. No market=no product. Very simple. If you feel that drugs should be allowed then campaign, rally, sign petitions...do it LEGALLY! Somehow users do not mind feeding the wealthy drug cartels but the gov't somehow is the bad guy....?
Sex and orgams are free, pure, natural, & very pleasurable. Yet people: rape, molest, solicite prostitutes, invade privacy all in the hope of experiencing a FREE, HARMLESS orgasm. Alcohol is cheap, natural, tasty, & legal. Yet people: drive drunk, fight, abuse wives and children, committ suicide, while under it's influence. If marijuana users are willing to risk: family, job, jail, and fines to get high, how can one say that their behavior will become less riskier if weed becomes legal?
Orgasm is a very primitive human urge that is uncontrollable for the majority. It gets distorted wildly in our stressed and wild world. Greed and power is also an instinct and combined with drugs and sex the results can be catastrophic. Laws, taxes and other restrictions force people to reach for relief and this often leads to overdoing it and being violent. Politicians need to work on NOT stressing out society to end the anger within society. Cannabis prohibition stems from racism and greed!
Orgasms are uncontrollable? LAws Force people to act violent? It would seem you feel those that break the law have no control over their actions. Somehow the government is behind everything that's wrong. Well if you feel that way then advocate for alcohol prohibition? Why have laws at all? So prisons are filled with society victims not people who made bad choices? Democracies are poor systems because you will always have an opposing side & everyone wants their particular need met. Impossible.
Ask any monk and they will tell you how hard it is to control the sexual urge. Sex is for making babies and that is a basic human instinct/desire that can not be controlled. These days, most people have orgasm to relieve stress. I bet you break rules and are just pretending that you like to be dominated by all these rules you naughty boy. Ahhhh get the whip! When did you last break the speed limit I wonder?
If sex urges are uncontrollable then how do so many people remain abstinant? Wives that live in sexless marriages that are totally happy? Religious ppl who refrain from sex? Asexual people? We are blessed with free will & being able to control ourselves is part of thet decision making ability. Sex is not outside of our control. If one can choose the ways to have sex then can control whether or not to have it. But I do see what you are saying.
Sorry to break in here--but you raised an interesting point. Society has been influenced to believe that 'normal' people want to have sex as frequently as possible. People therefore lie and say they are having intercourse many times a week, when in all likelyhood, they are not as sexually active. If they were, IMO, their bits would wear off, or we'd have immediately recognisable rampant pregnancy epidemics, factoring in the failure percentages rates of current birth control methods. You think?
the reason alcohol and tobacco cause the most deaths is because they are the most widely used. once the illegal drusgs hit the market the statistic should even out.
whilst I think a lot of these drugs should be made legal you do need to respect that they are dangerous just like alcohol and tobbacco are dangerous.
DRUG's block out the pain of living in a country that dosen't care for you and hates you and treats you like a number thats why kids drink their selfs to death at the end of the week.
Legalizing drugs is widely accepted as an historic mistake in the Netherlands - magic mushrooms are now banned, and "coffee shops" in many cities have been closed down.
Taxing drugs increases the prevalence of illicit trade (especially to children and others who can' afford to buy legally); regulating strength simply creates a black market for more potent drugs.
Tobacco and alcohol abuse may cause many deaths, but how can legalizing more dangerous substances do anything but make things worse?
Well, people were saying that a few years ago before official statistics were available and the long term health risks were not as well understood. This was exactly the same situation with tobacco 50 years ago.
Then in 2007, the NHS National Treatment Agency published figures showing there were 22,000 cannabis users undergoing rehab treatment for their addiction - nearly half of whom were under 18, causing many long-term advocates of legalization to think again.
Correct me if i'm wrong, but wouldn't there be far more people using alcohol and tobacco rather than drugs? Lot's of people go on the lash every weekend for example but not everyone takes drugs. If that's the case, the figures for alcohol/tobacco related deaths are going to be higher if more people use them.
I reckon legalising drugs would only make the matter worse, not straight away but over time. Drug use would become established in our culture like drinking is now and the stats would climb
surely the statistics about deaths would point to the conclusion not that drugs should be legalised but that alcohol and tobacco should be illegalised?
i would like to think you were right mate ,but i can not ever see this d-khead
in this video becoming more right wing ,he is just another middle class brain washed mummy,s boy who thinks one day we will all be living in a beautiful multicultural drug free and crime free society ,he is a complete muppet
I agree drug dealers are scum. Why would there be any drug dealers if the drugs were legal? They'd be sold by the government. The junkies on the streets will be there if the drugs are illegal or not, though if they're legal then they would be cheaper, one less WW2 veteran to need to have attacked. If you want to attack this problem, why not start at the core of it?
NuLabour has become a government intent on peddling ever increasing amounts of one of the most dangerous drugs out there: Alcohol. I like a drink, most people do but having an alcoholic parent (who died when I was 21) made more aware of the dangers of alcohol than most. Yet again, excellent commentary!
Drinking alcohol would kill less if it was illegal, there'd be fewer alcoholics, smoking tobacco would kill less if it was illegal, there'd be fewer heavy smokers, driving cars would kill less if it was illegal because people wouldn't be able to speed or drive recklessly but none of these potentially dangerous activities are illegal, people are allowed the choice to do all of the above. Also, if Ecstasy was regulated, people would know what they were getting. I'm struggling to see your point.
i'm not very informed on this subject really so my views are mostly common sence i think. All i know is what you've said, TV ads saying "you don't know what it'll do to you" and my school teachers saying "DON'T DO DRUGS!"
My view is that if what's currently happening isn't working, try something else, if that is worse, change it back.
I actually have been completely put off drugs and alcohol and everything else pretty much because of my teachers so maybe there's something in education.
if people choose to do drugs thats fine by me ,but when it becomes a habit and they turn to crime ,then its time to give them a lethal injection and get rid of them , why should my taxes pay for some lowlife heroin addict to get free nhs and probally spend the rest of thier life living on benefits .people know what they are getting into when they take drugs so i have not one iota of sympathy for them
When you start taking drugs to escape the world as you said, that is when it starts becoming an addiction. I also think that the other guy probably meant that people who ARE addicts are sick. I'm opposed to legalized drugs, unless for medical Purposes. Mainly because look at the problems legalized stuff causes. Drunk Driving, cancer, addiction, and I think that there will be more people if more stuff is legalized. If I offended anyone I'm really sorry I didn't mean to!
Please don't take my comments as 'anti-drugs' - people can take whatever they want for all they want, I couldn't give a shit. Most people have tried drugs, I'm no exception. Just saying that, from a solely 'what is good for society' point of view, legalising drugs would be bad. I can imagine people turning 18, trying hard drugs, having another go, then eventually get addicted. It would probably cause a huge increase in addiction among the upper class, and working class.
I'm sure this UN guy meant that ADDICTS are ill, and that's one good way of looking at addiction in my opinion. I'm pretty sure he didn't mean to say ALL drug users are ill..and if he did, well..it really doesn't matter what he said.
I really don't think drug legalisation is a good idea. Doing this would just lead to an increase in addiction I think, and what sort of society would we be if we started selling drugs such as heroin legally, across the counter at special drug outlets?
Sorry, I posted that compliment without engaging with the topic of your video:
I agree with you. The damage that the illegal drug trade does is so massive (particularly in the poorer countries, where the drugs are produced) that regulation seems to be the only plausible avenue - the "war on drugs" just doesn't appear to be working.
Nonetheless, I would say that I think it is immoral to take certain drugs, but this is mainly because they will have been produced in an exploitative way e.g. coke
CON'TD-- Individuals can recreationally use drugs if they prefer, same with smoking--both have their dangers, but youve got to be responsible. Society takes the people who abuse it for an example, and those are the people who do need personal help. Now, when you boil it down, it does come to the drug industry. Theres the real root of the problem! ! Legalisation will NOT increase drug use, because if you really want it, youll find a way to get it.
This is a very controversial topic, we did a whole unit in English. Personally, I agree-- I think legalisation of drugs is a realistic way to combat the issue. When people think of drugs, they think of the violence that comes behind it because of notorious trafficking. And its true, how much times do you hear of split blood over dealing issues? You dont see this with cigarettes or alcohol, because theyre legalised.
1) there are too many factors involved. its impossible to say EVERYONE is either in need of help, or in need of criminal retribution.
2) I feel like if they changed the laws and whatnot and said that people wouldnt necessarily get jail time for drugs might make more people do it. Having to go to a few "help" sessions isnt as frightening as going to jail.
So I guess I say they keep it the way it is, unless they're prepared to look at each case individually and decide what that person needs.
I do definitely agree with you, but just wanted to pick a point with the statistic stuff on alchohol/tobacco/drugs. The sheer amount of people that use tobacco and alcohol in comparison to drugs is huge. So I do think that comparing the amounts of people who died p/a because of these three things can't be compared with the numbers themselves, but should be compared with percentages to show the percentages (obviously lol) of people who died as a result of each three things. Thank you :) x
Do you really think that drugs being illegal stop people taking them? Then you are a fool. Access was never a problem when I was growing up. I was always left with the choice of taking them or not in the same way I could choose to drink alcahol, though drugs always seemed more cool as they were against the law. What world did you grow up in?
woa Ryming you do your blogs standing up? Good thinking, brain is more active when you're standing I've heard.
I say tax the people making the drugs, spend the cash on helping out the problems caused by them. It would mean cleaner drugs, more awareness and a very large amount of surplus money. If they came up with a drug as strong as booze now, there's no way it would ever be legal. I do feel that there would be some pretty full on teething problems though. Laters Johno
Smoking never actually killed anyone. The statistics are a con. Consider a moment! The incidence of smoking has been falling for 50 years; the incidence of cancer and heart disease has been increasing for 50 years. Clearly tobacco is not to blame. There is no such thing as a 'smoking related disease'. In fact it is doubtful whether smoking killed anyone.
I don't think drug use should be illegal. The government should just get over it and chill. I mean, I've had some wonderful and terrible experiences on drugs. However it was my choice. If I needed help I could go and get it. However, drugs should not be illegal. You should only get into trouble if you actually comit and crime. Then you should get extra help for you if drugs were involved. Like rehab if you really need it. Just finding pot in someone's bag and them getting arrested.. that'sunfair
sarahbroken 5 months ago
this is the only person i know who can cast a shadow with his big nose.oh and he supports paedophile groups.gives it loads of mouth,but ask the turd what he thinks about the human rights in china,he will be quiet.why because he is studying chinese and has a self interest.its self self self with rimming withorifice. he a turd faced big,nose hototer wanker.
theresonly1stig 5 months ago
Your a cunt!
1982rf 9 months ago
I`m American and I have done almost all drugs besides Heroin and Crack. I`ve done Ecstacy, Cocaine, (regretfully) Crystal Meth, Weed, pain pills and I think that`s it. But I, as a FORMER illegal substabce user, think it would be smart to legalize drugs. The mafia, gangs and other dangerous people who make money off of it would disappate. But that means WAY WAY less revenue for the governments and police. Fat chance.
court922010 10 months ago
"The problem however is not the recreational users who take a pill or two at the weekend. It is the trade that should be targeted and not the individual users but to patronise these casual users by saying their use of recreational drugs is an illness is not going to combat anything. Legalisation of drugs is one of the only realistic ways of combating addiction and the shady world around drug trafficking, dealing and usage" I agree.
BeatnikFromHell666 11 months ago
Psychedelics are the safest...
BeatnikFromHell666 11 months ago
Why do you think tobacco and alcohol do the most damage to society?
Is it because its legal and thereby more commonly available...
There has always been some legal mind altering substances legal in any society, but I dont see that as a valid argument to make other substances legal as well. From the looks of it, to me, it seems like tobacco is on the way out, but I guess some pro drugs users, ironically, would call that a bad thing.
Lobos222 11 months ago
Drugs fund terrorism that kills our soldiers and innocent people - ours and there own.
We should be growing food - not drugs and drugs general fuck your body up anyway. Why the fuck would you wont to take them anway? If you want a good time just a go on the piss with ya mates ffs.
SGTGerman 11 months ago
If you can't handle the world and you need a drug to have fun or relax, your mind is weak and you are more than an addict, you are a perfect candidate for euthenasia.
Drug traffickers and dealers should be jailed. Manufacturers should be executed.
Users should be re-educated at their own expense, and if they don't have the money for it, it's a debt they have to pay via government issued slave work.
DrFuckingPepper 11 months ago
u are with out doubt a fucking wanker. what a big nose you have toffy boy.
theresonly1stig 1 year ago
you *could* just stop using drugs ...
dig6dog 1 year ago
@dig6dog
Its no ones right to tell anyone not to use drugs, govs have NO right.
RyanR3volution 1 year ago
@RyanR3volution govs dont exist because of right.. they exist because of the "rule of the strongest".
dig6dog 1 year ago
Brave New World - bring forth the Soma!
HumanSayNo 1 year ago
Drug use, production or distribution is perfectly legitimate. Any drugs. Screw the state.
rumco 1 year ago
i'd agree with 90% of what you are saying, although i wouldn't call heroin a 'casual drug', i'd say canabis was a more casual one, as it is a lot more widely used, and less harmful. you have some great opinions, and i love your videos!
P.S: haircut is fiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiine!
BobbieIZIT 1 year ago
Rhymingwithoranges has to be the most irritating little prick on youtube...
TheMarkOfTheBeast1 1 year ago
The notion that using soft drugs leads someone to using harder and harder drugs is only true now because people are getting their drugs from drug dealers who'll make more profit from the harder stuff. Imagine buying your drugs from a pharmacist who'd offer you proper advice and safety tips about its use. Leah Betts tragically died from drinking too much water - advice given to ravers - and not from the effects of ecstacy. I don't use drugs at all but I want those who do to have proper advice.
edotdeeney 1 year ago
The one thing i would strongly disagree with is the "casual use of heroin" its prety much impossible to use heroin casually. But the people addicted should not be charged, maybe some form of compulsary rehab where attending treatment would hold back a criminal charge, a bit like the probation system so if they step out of line they do get charged. Coke is also highly addictive but i do know some people who use it "casually" but i think they are tempting fate. Health matter not a criminal one!
EbsNhexz 1 year ago
Dazza is a drug user and cock smoker.
tryanjohnson 1 year ago
Dazza is a radical homosexual socialist. Go to hell dog. Christian Muslims and Jews hate you! Down with the gay and lesbian mafia! Ha Ha!
tryanjohnson 1 year ago
It doesn't matter what you inhale. Any undissolved particulates in the lungs can and will lead to cancer.
This Government do not mind you killing yourself providing the revenue/cost is worthwhile.
As most drug takers are self mutilating scumbags who earn little if nothing for the state, its too costly to allow.
m1aws 1 year ago
pretty much agree'd with you on the legalization business of drugs. Also on the recreational use of them. The statement that addiction to these drugs is an illness does hold some truth, when it is an actual addiction rather than casual use. But whose to say which is which. Its tricky. You can really only go case to case with this one.
itscooltobeyou 2 years ago
drug use isn't criminal but it is when student cunts like you do it.
fondoogle 2 years ago
oh yes it is!
runzordockz 2 years ago
why is there this hysteria about illegal drugs? why do peoples minds have such a fear and active hate for recreational drug use?
there are terrible consequences if a person cannot use them correctly, but the main causes of drug addiction and misuse is that society wont edjucatate people on how to use them possitively, because they can be used positivly!
it is the governments fault that drugs are a problem, because it is the government who made them illegal
stefanscally 2 years ago
@stefanscally And at 19 years of age i dont think you are really old enough or mature enough to think you know more than me. I have been to more countries than you have had hot dinners seen death and destruction been in riots and places where you would shit your pants and want to run home to mummy. So when your a little older and seen a bit more than MTV Google and You Tube. Come back and tell me to think about opening my mouth. But when you do make sure you are a man not a student smokin pot
AUTORECOVERYUK 2 years ago
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Clauss290 2 years ago
Did you used to be deaf?
sarethums 2 years ago
"vewy intewesting article about dwugs in the Guardian....."
Liberal lefty trash. The only answer is death for importation and dealing. And for lefty jerks like this.
TheZanipolo 2 years ago
COMPLETE IDIOT. He is also a student teacher so god only knows what he is teacing his pupils. All drug users are ill or they would not be doing it. Its a drug its addictive they are breaking the law taking the drugs. More people die from smoking because more people smoke than take drugs. Its like saying more women give birth than men. As a student teacher you need to look at yourself and perhaps stop taking drugs yourself. You are a silly little boy who only knows what books and google tell you
AUTORECOVERYUK 2 years ago
I would like to point out that you ranted quite well, but provided no facts to back up your positions. You have acctually only made yourself look stupid. Come back when you can back up what you say. Thank you.
Kasigerman 2 years ago
"All drug users are ill "
That's a blanket statement, I smoke cannabis regularly and I'm perfectly healthy both mentally and physically, as are many people I know.
I find it funny that anyone who smokes the odd joint is seen as a social pariah, yet drinking; far more harmful, is seen as sociable in its nature.
pamew 2 years ago
@pamew Perhaps thats because what you are doing is illegal. How can you compare an illegal action of drug taking to a legal action of drinking. Its like saying shop lifting is the same as paying for an item or driving a stolen car is the same as driving one thats legally yours. You may think smoking cannabis is ok but by smoking it regularly shows its addictive & you either smoke it to get high like drink gets you drunk or you smoke it because you cant go without it. Its a drug your hooked on it
AUTORECOVERYUK 2 years ago
It's in no way similar to stealing/shoplifting. It harms no one, I pay for what I smoke, and for your information, I use it as pain relief and an effective anti inflammatory, (much as glaucoma patients do).
I smoke it regularly because cortical steroids give me brittle bones, water retention and at one point sent me into a state of self destructive psychosis, which took months to recover from and lost me my job.
pamew 2 years ago
@pamew SO WHY SMOKE IT THEN IS IT BECAUSE YOUR A REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE STILL GOIN THROUGH PUBERTY WHEN YOU GET THROUGH IT STOP THE DRUGS AND GET OUT AND FUCK SOME WOMEN ITS MUCH MORE FUN THAN WANKING WHILST STONED
dannylovinglisa 1 year ago
@dannylovinglisa That should be "you're a rebel" not "your". And I'm an adult with a full time job who just happens to smoke rather than drink. So I guess that just leaves you with your homoerotic thoughts of me masturbating. Good luck with that champ.
pamew 1 year ago
u should think a lot harder b4 opening ur mouth 2 speak, 1 could make ur arguments and do it without ur ignorance and lies
ignorance: simply because the government makes a drug ilegal dosnt make it worse than a legal 1, is the government some all knowing god, would you say the same if you lived in russia or germany 50 years ago. (say u would, make my day)
lies: its not like saying more women give birth than men, tobaco kills more tobaco users than pot or ecstacy kills pot or ecstacy users. tit
stefanscally 2 years ago
@stefanscally Perhaps thats because its LEGAL to smoke tobaco so more people smoke tobaco . So more law abiding people who smoke tobaco might get ill or die from their LEGAL habit. I take it from your strong reaction you are one of the pot smokers who thinks its good to smoke an illegal product in the UK. Well good luck to you , i take my hat off to all you drug smokers. You keep breaking the law and driving while high . Then when you get caught or have a crash dont ask the NHS for help..
AUTORECOVERYUK 2 years ago
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Clauss290 2 years ago
@AUTORECOVERYUK: no it isnt dont be fucking stupid no one who wants to take drugs lets the law stop them. no one has died directly because of smoking grass simply because it's nowhere near as toxic or carcinogenic as tobacco FACT. Do some research it always amazes me how people think they know everything about drugs just because they DONT take them.
bawsaq 1 year ago
@bawsaq Just the kind of reply i would expect from another drug taking worshiper. Keep smoking your drugs and breaking the law. As its people like you that my taxes pay for when your in prison or in re hab. As for knowing nothing about drugs i think your wrong there but i am not lowering myself to your standards to show you breaking the law to get high is wrong. You keep on doing it you keep breaking the law. Have a happy lawless life and one day you will see how silly taking drugs are...
AUTORECOVERYUK 1 year ago
where do my taxes go then ya fuking retard? And yes I will keep getting high even if it's just to piss off losers like you I'd rather people thought of me as a lawless scumbag than a boring friendless twat like you. And finally no that day will never come because I know the risks and I know It costs a lot of money but guess what I dont care it's my state of mind and I'll alter it if i want.
bawsaq 1 year ago
@bawsaq Silly little boy with a big mouth. Any luck it'll kill you
AUTORECOVERYUK 1 year ago
@bawsaq YOU NEED TO GET OUT MORE DUDE
dannylovinglisa 1 year ago
@AUTORECOVERYUK
"All drug users are ill or they would not be doing it"
I'll remind you that next time you have a cup of coffee,
pamew 1 year ago
@pamew Thats a good idea but you will have a long wait as i dont drink the stuff or tea come to that. Oh and i dont drink alcohol so it looks like i am not addicted to anything. Except work. Perhaps thats why i own 3 thriving companies which keeps me busy and employs several people. So having a clear head and not drinking or doing drugs has looked after me in life. But there again just think where i could of been if i was a drug taking pot head. Oh yer i could be in prison or on the streets .
AUTORECOVERYUK 1 year ago
@AUTORECOVERYUK.
"drug taking pot head"
Try to seem older. please try.
As for "in prison or on the streets."
Anyone who managed to get themselves locked up or homeless through cannabis use, has much bigger issues than ingesting cannabis.
Also, nice to see you simultaneously make a blanket statement, and big yourself up.
You seem like a really nice, considerate man.
I'm just kidding, you're a cunt.
pamew 1 year ago
@pamew Words of wisdom from a person who smokes drugs i gues. Well you know what i might be a "cunt" but i'm a clear level headed hard working happy "cunt" who has never been addicted to a man made drug i've never had a criminal record or ever been out of work in my life. So if thats what a "cunt" is , I'll happily be one over someone who needs drugs to get through life. So thank you for your wisdom and wish you luck in your world of drugs.
AUTORECOVERYUK 1 year ago
@pamew I see from your channel on you tube your a little boy of 22. So at your age you aint got much of an idea on life have you. When your a little older and been around life a bit more not just lived your life on you tube facebook and google earth then come back and tell me i know nothing. I was in the forces before you was born little boy protecting places so little boys like you could grow up and have a sad life of drug taking. Now i think i hear your mummy calling its bed time for you...
AUTORECOVERYUK 1 year ago
@AUTORECOVERYUK That should be "you're* a little boy of 22." And I'm 20. And "your" is the possessive form. If YOU'RE going to try to patronise me in written format, make sure you can actually frame YOUR basic sentences properly.
pamew 1 year ago
@pamew Who cares if i made a couple of mistakes LITTLE BOY. You understood it and got the point. So perhaps now you'll grow up. Oh and if you put your age is 22 on your you tube channel when you are now saying you are 20 what else is a lie coming from you. Night night sleep tight dont let the bed bugs bite...
AUTORECOVERYUK 1 year ago
@AUTORECOVERYUK Not that I need to explain this to you, but My age is two years younger than stated on my profile because I had to up for a US adult account in order to view and save videos related to school work such as film studies. I can't help it if a system requires you to input an age higher than your own to let you see material you need.
You're the one being immature here...
pamew 1 year ago
@pamew
The number one back-up plan when losing an argument: attack your opponent's spelling and grammar...
TheMarkOfTheBeast1 1 year ago
you need medical help,
grenadierguard3 2 years ago
Yeah I think that calling drug use an 'illness' just gives people another excuse or defense.
Legalizing and regulating drugs and providing them at clinics would protect people from the impurities and such in illegal drugs, and the overdosing problem. If they were provided in clean small doses in supervised environment it would still be terrible, but preferable. It would not be a terrible idea for dealing with addicts, at least they are less likely to die from their addiction.
Saneblueberry 2 years ago
gay boy
PrankCallsinc 2 years ago
are you jewish? ^^
happosai27 2 years ago
I think that the reason there are less deaths from illegal drugs is because they are illegal. People use alcohol and tobacco much more regularly than illegal supstances which are unlikely to be taken every day except for adicts. Being illegal makes these drugs more for something 'special' from my experience of my friends drug use. If people began using cannibus in every cigerette they smoked which may happen if legal then the effects would most likely be much worse.
xxwriterfreakxx 2 years ago
KICK BACK ABD HAVE A SPILFF
leej046 2 years ago
Putting drugs users in prison is far more harmful than the drugs themselves. We must put an end to these crazy drugs laws with stupid politicians taking their policies from redtop newspapers rather than people with any scientific knowledge.
yourcamden 2 years ago 16
Who is this dick....
What a knob.
Drug use is a remorseless creeping malignant force within our society. The damage being caused is immeasurably vast.
Wet liberal? Youve got it kid....
l33dsutd 2 years ago
People who are arrested for drug use need to be sent to get medical help(like rehab). Sending them to jail does nothing to help the addiction. They just sit in jail, and are not rehabilitated.
SmoogleChoocher 2 years ago
drugs are behind the huge rise in mental health problems.its a fact.
mbmjson 2 years ago
very true
jaydog89 2 years ago
Hold on just a moment. Surely the majority of drug traffickers are users or at least below the poverty line? Otherwise why run the risk? You won't stop those at the top of the chain cos there is so much £££ involved!
roverspaul 2 years ago
haha, How long did you practice the name of the UN's head of Drugs and crime before filming this?? I remember my dingy Halls of Residence too! Keep it up! Change the world!
roverspaul 2 years ago
Drugs are great fun until your hooked and then cry in your mums arms that life is SO BAD!
If you have any mind you don't hide in bottle, joint or pill. Thats what a looser does!
LabRat6619 2 years ago
lay off him! He has got a point, particually with cannabis. As a cannabis user I know that in the drugs world, most of gang crime is caused by competitive dealers, but also there are so many young drug dealers of cannabis. If it was legalised the government could recieve huge funds in tax, crime would be lowered, less youngsters would take it, and stronger strains could be eliminated. However I don't agree with legalising many other drugs
beavun07 2 years ago
this lad is talking absolute bollocks... where do weirdos like this get the confidence to make videos of 'their views'
You dont see any normal people doing this sort of thing (as in anyone with their head screwed on) because they dont assume to push their views onto others.
But i suppose you get alot of free time only having one media studies class a week.
xdanger123x 2 years ago
Are you seriously saying that currently illegal drugs should be made legal?
l4hi7u 2 years ago
he shoots himself in the foot because he says that legal "drugs" like alcohol and tobacco cause more social problems overall than the illegal ones! This is because they are legal and easily obtainable. If you legalised cocaine for example then consumption would increase, problems would increase surrounding it and it would then be akin to alcohol and tobacco eventually.
roverspaul 2 years ago
Never let your children study any of the social sciences they will spend the rest of their lives being useless sanctimonious pillocks dedicated to ruining the country like this boring little prick.
pec104 2 years ago
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l4hi7u 2 years ago
@pec104 Having drugs illegal kills people
Jasonthegaiface 1 year ago
@pec104
Lol... I have to somewhat agree...
TheMarkOfTheBeast1 1 year ago
Part 1: Now I agree that dealing should be treated far more seriously that taking, and also that punishments should be set for each drug individually, but I am strongly against legalising consumption, a small dose of a drug which is one of the less harmful ones in a controlled situation rarely poses too many problems, but the cost as a whole to society will almost always be noticeable in the majority of instances, crime caused by drugs (to fund and the mental effects of drugs)
Thatcuber 2 years ago
Part 2: have a high level of impact, and even though there is the argument of what someone does to themselves is their own business is valid, it rarely actually only affects the guilty user.What about parents who end up not buying their children food so they can buy drugs, what about in some cases where people get mugged to buy drugs. Thats only those directly affected but the cost to society for welfare payments and health costs is also something that affects everyone indirectly.
Thatcuber 2 years ago
take drugs. paint your self blue. urinate in starbucks,
GuitarOfTruth 2 years ago
Don't legalise all drugs, but I admit doing this might, and I only say might, reduce the crimes done by addicts if they can get their substances legally.
dreamsofequal 2 years ago
not really, if there legal then they wil still b the same price or dearer they still have to get there money from somewhere
jaydog89 2 years ago
legalise all drugs?
are you joking?
can't you picture the carnage?
are you completely clueless?
typical STUDENT.
get a job.
9thenazeing 2 years ago
now i know u are a tosser, go overdose yaself on youtube ill watch that and subscibe
TheSSGB 2 years ago
"I say we need to tackle the drugs trade "
"Substance abuse cause huge problems across society "
it is neither the place of yourself nor the government to tell people what they may or may not put into their body
if i want to kill myself by doin smack 5 times a day every day till i die it really has fuck all to do with you. not that i feel you should pay me benifits to do so or anything like that, why the fuck should you. but if i pay my own way its my business and noone elses
songratingaccount 2 years ago
nor is it any place of the state to interfere in ANY private transaction, to put limits on what people may or may not sell each other, to tell landlords what people may or may not do on their own property
all you twats saying people shouldnt be allowed are just bringing us ever closer to 1984
songratingaccount 2 years ago
But I have to disagree with you about the recreational users. Quoting Elite Squad, "How many children we have to lose to the traffic so a lazy, rich boy can roll his spliff?"
Most people who use ilegal drugs are patrocinating drug traffic in underdeveloped countries, so it doesn't matter if they're having fun, they're still responsable for the violence and deaths caused by drug traffic, even if they don't see it from their confortable little homes. And in my opinion, anyone who does that is ill.
twrytrwtw 2 years ago
(Sorry if my english is bad, I'm not a native speaker)
I agree that drugs should be legalized. The money that's spent to fight traffic would be best spent with campaings for drugs awareness. It's like condoms: it sucks having to use them, but most people know what can happen if you don't. Besides that, if the drugs were legalized, the drug traffic would stop, and many deaths would be avoided.
twrytrwtw 2 years ago
What makes you think your opinion is important to anyone?
Who really gives a shit about what you think?
N15gooner 2 years ago
You sir are a cunt
loafdapesholmes 2 years ago
lol seriously rhymingwithoranges are you really that stupid? why do you think there are so many more deaths from the "legal" drugs such ast tobacco? because it is in fact legal and because of such more people use it and it more accepted in society. if you legalise other substance such as cocaine and ecstacy then in time people will find it more acceptable to use because it would be legal and more and more people would use it and die from it. grow up
kraynum 2 years ago
you right, saying that ALL people who use drugs are addicted to them isn't true. i mean it depends on what they're DOING. lie cocaine, heroin, and crystal are pretty serious while marijuana can be pretty casual sometimes. i don't think drugs should be legal, mostly because i dont think its OKAY to feel a false sense of happiness. but yeah, not everyone who does drugs is addicted.
kissyface456123 2 years ago
I think drug use is can be either or. Some patients get addicted to drug use after experiencing an injury and taking pain control meds for it. Others use drugs as a form of escape, a self medication for depression and persona disorders. Others use drugs for pleasure and thrill seeking. The later I find immoral, and the fomer two I feel need to seek medical help.
cylon21921 2 years ago
he should do his stuff in the nude, it would be more interesting
poussecafe3 2 years ago
mmmmmm i could really do with a line of coke right now yeahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
gregthegooner 2 years ago
Legalise all drugs and let people kill themselves on them if they want to.
At least this way, the police will be freed up and the government can make lots of tax money from the drug use. Like they do with nicotine and alcohol.
anonymous0sod 2 years ago
I had to continue as to running out of space.
Realy think about it... Think about it hard..
Why do so many states in AMERICA (who enstated the anti cannabis laws worldwide) now infact have medicinal marijuana?
Why Do the goverment spill scare tactics about substances which COULD cause mental illness in VERY FEW people, But all you need is some ID and to be of age and you can smeer the inside of the your lungs with tar or rott out your liver with alcahol.
clark144 2 years ago
"Normal" Should be Veiwed As such to be "Abnormal" if the "Normality" Is what is what the goverments want you to abide by.
Cannabis is safer than any other drug out there, what makes it dangerious is the fact you can get contaminated cannabis from a dealer, Alot of problems surrounding drug use are infact direct causes of the substances themselfs being illegal, I.E. Cannabis production out of a regulated system.
clark144 2 years ago
I will end my argument with this: It took a group of SO-CALLEDignorant, uneducated, poor, ugly, ex-slave monkey niggers, to teach the world that you do not have to use violence, use weapons, degrade people or BREAK THE LAW to obtain personal liberties and freedoms from your government. Breaking the law puts users in the same boat as ANY other law offender. All law breakers feel their actions are justified in one way or another. What makes pot smokers any different? Fight for your rights legally
bldgamystery 2 years ago
a lot more people smoke than use E.
greenNINJAspam 2 years ago
Cannabis, for the most part and like alcohol, is consumed responsibly. Please visit places like Portugal and the Netherlands to see this first hand. It's very close to being made legal and taxable in California and other states. Britain and other countries seem to like living in the dark ages, with rules to control people and interfere with activities they undertake in their own homes that harm nobody else. Britain is not a democratic nation if prejudices can't be overcome to help the most ill!
SarahSoulFood 2 years ago
I'm sure everyones experience with drugs is different. I know what i have seen But I do understand cannabis is less dangerous than some other drugs. However it has the same effect...unpredictable and uncontrollable. Alcohol can be consumed w/o the intent of getting drunk. Weed does not. No one smokes weed to jsut smoke it. It's to get high. Plus its almost impossible not to on the first hit. However, it takes several drinks to reach a point of drunk that equals the high of weed. Alcohol is safer
bldgamystery 2 years ago
Have you seen the table of harm on the BBC website? Have you bothered to read government reports? Cannabis can not be attributed to not one death whereas alcohol kills millions world wide every year. Tobacco is a similar story. Ever noticed how much tax the government rakes in from those products?
SarahSoulFood 2 years ago
Sorry but weed doesn't get you high on your first hit..i agree and disagree with what your saying but alcohol is very addictive compared to weed it also causes much more serious effects when your drunk you lose many senses and kindof lose control of some of your actions when your high (on weed) you have at least have some control e.g crossing the road is much easier high than drunk :p
twistedeny 2 years ago
youre an idiot
Obsidean 2 years ago
If someone is willing to break the law to purchase it, then they will be willing to break the law while using it. If legal it will be recieve the same bans as tobacco and alcohol. no smoking inside buildings, not high while driving, no open containers=no rolled joints inside car, no access to minors in your home, etc. It will be taxed highly and fltered. So getting high will still be a bummer just more expensive and less potent.
bldgamystery 2 years ago
I am offended because you share your opinion without doing any research on the true effects cannabis has on human behaviour. Ask any police officer or hospital worker and they will tell you that cannabis users are non violent individuals. Alcohol causes violence towards and increased costs to the police and health professionals. Bothe those professions are literally begging for an end to prohibition. They are on the front line and they see the truth of the matter every day.
SarahSoulFood 2 years ago
You are an uneducated bigot!
SarahSoulFood 2 years ago
Im uneducated but you are name calling. Ok, Sarah I have partyed most of my adult life. I have seen people & friends use many drugs and abuse alcohol. I am speaking from experience. Drug users arent responsible. Ive seen: unprotected 3somes in bathrooms due to ecstacy, defacation on streets byy weed users, drag racing on public streets due to weed & coke...much more. I stayed sober & watched. I do not need the opinions of others to know drugs changed nice ppl to reckless ones.This is my story
bldgamystery 2 years ago
My cousin's husband killed their newborn chilld and then shot himself. I know very well the damage that prohibition does to society. He could have gone to rehab and got help if there was any at that time.
And your comment about banner waving and protesting is a bit late. Check out my YouTube page to see who I am and what I do, I am a high profile Medical Cannabis campaigner recently chosen by the BBC for citizenship project and more recently, a middle classed ladies mag. The tide is turning!
SarahSoulFood 2 years ago
WIth the obvious and uncontrollable abuse of alcohol and prescribed medication, coupled with harmful tobacco, how can anyone advocate the legalization of recreational and street drugs? Users are criminals. It's illegal to purchase therefore thay are breaking the law and deserve punishment. Without users there aren't: dealers, cartels, drug crime, drug related deaths or crimes, or drug related arrests. No demand , so supply.
bldgamystery 2 years ago
Without the War On Drugs there are no criminals.
I suppose you think that the thousands of people who use cannabis for medical reasons are wrong too. To this date it is still the most effective medicine for Multiple Sclerosis and has killed nobody so far. Would you prefer those people to use pharmaceuticals that routinely kill around 20,000 people a year in Britain alone.
You seriously need educating and to do away with your bigoted attitude. Why? Because it's offensive!
SarahSoulFood 2 years ago
I am not a bigot. I am expressing my point of view...just like you are. I am not name calling...like you are. I am not being offensive...like you are. All I am saying is that there are enough legal drugs and vices for people to delve into, why add another one? If alcohol, tobacco and presription drugs aren't numbing people enough, chances are legalizing marijuana isn't the answer. Society as a whole will not benefit. Sex is free & people still pay for it. Weed wont cure human lawlessness
bldgamystery 2 years ago
You should be campaigning for alcohol prohibition then. However, that would be inhumane and dangerous. Please look up alcohol prohibition in the US. It was a disaster that killed half a million people. Drug prohibition has resulted in the same and worse. Se through the newspaper headlines and political lies to get to the truth.
SarahSoulFood 2 years ago
The key component that failed prohibition alcohol and drugs is the users. Illegal drug users feel they are somehow not to blame for drug crime, violence and economic money waste on solving the problem. If users obeyed the law and did not buy then no one would sell. No market=no product. Very simple. If you feel that drugs should be allowed then campaign, rally, sign petitions...do it LEGALLY! Somehow users do not mind feeding the wealthy drug cartels but the gov't somehow is the bad guy....?
bldgamystery 2 years ago
Sex and orgams are free, pure, natural, & very pleasurable. Yet people: rape, molest, solicite prostitutes, invade privacy all in the hope of experiencing a FREE, HARMLESS orgasm. Alcohol is cheap, natural, tasty, & legal. Yet people: drive drunk, fight, abuse wives and children, committ suicide, while under it's influence. If marijuana users are willing to risk: family, job, jail, and fines to get high, how can one say that their behavior will become less riskier if weed becomes legal?
bldgamystery 2 years ago
Orgasm is a very primitive human urge that is uncontrollable for the majority. It gets distorted wildly in our stressed and wild world. Greed and power is also an instinct and combined with drugs and sex the results can be catastrophic. Laws, taxes and other restrictions force people to reach for relief and this often leads to overdoing it and being violent. Politicians need to work on NOT stressing out society to end the anger within society. Cannabis prohibition stems from racism and greed!
SarahSoulFood 2 years ago
Orgasms are uncontrollable? LAws Force people to act violent? It would seem you feel those that break the law have no control over their actions. Somehow the government is behind everything that's wrong. Well if you feel that way then advocate for alcohol prohibition? Why have laws at all? So prisons are filled with society victims not people who made bad choices? Democracies are poor systems because you will always have an opposing side & everyone wants their particular need met. Impossible.
bldgamystery 2 years ago
Ask any monk and they will tell you how hard it is to control the sexual urge. Sex is for making babies and that is a basic human instinct/desire that can not be controlled. These days, most people have orgasm to relieve stress. I bet you break rules and are just pretending that you like to be dominated by all these rules you naughty boy. Ahhhh get the whip! When did you last break the speed limit I wonder?
SarahSoulFood 2 years ago
If sex urges are uncontrollable then how do so many people remain abstinant? Wives that live in sexless marriages that are totally happy? Religious ppl who refrain from sex? Asexual people? We are blessed with free will & being able to control ourselves is part of thet decision making ability. Sex is not outside of our control. If one can choose the ways to have sex then can control whether or not to have it. But I do see what you are saying.
bldgamystery 2 years ago
Sorry to break in here--but you raised an interesting point. Society has been influenced to believe that 'normal' people want to have sex as frequently as possible. People therefore lie and say they are having intercourse many times a week, when in all likelyhood, they are not as sexually active. If they were, IMO, their bits would wear off, or we'd have immediately recognisable rampant pregnancy epidemics, factoring in the failure percentages rates of current birth control methods. You think?
Youmakemyheartglad 2 years ago
whilst I mostly agree with what you said.
I think your points at 2:04 are a bit dodgy.
the reason alcohol and tobacco cause the most deaths is because they are the most widely used. once the illegal drusgs hit the market the statistic should even out.
whilst I think a lot of these drugs should be made legal you do need to respect that they are dangerous just like alcohol and tobbacco are dangerous.
CrazyMeCrazyYou 2 years ago
Although legal substances cause more deaths, even recreational use of illegal ones can screw up lives. Society as a whole is ill.
two side notes, the generation video you put up made me cry.
and I like your haircut. you'd look sharp in some kind of uniform. and i mean that as a compliment.
dontmindme831 2 years ago
it's easy, all the governments need to do is to BURN ALL DRUGS AND MAKE SURE NOTHING IS PRODUCED, that is easy right?
helloguyshowareyou 2 years ago
DRUG's block out the pain of living in a country that dosen't care for you and hates you and treats you like a number thats why kids drink their selfs to death at the end of the week.
MrNeversaynever 2 years ago
I know Costa personally - he's a cunt.
richardmcginty 2 years ago
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Cacophonaut 2 years ago
You dont really know what your talking about... are you doing Sociology or sumfing? and Ket isnt a pill. you snort it.
lornaration 2 years ago
Legalizing drugs is widely accepted as an historic mistake in the Netherlands - magic mushrooms are now banned, and "coffee shops" in many cities have been closed down.
Taxing drugs increases the prevalence of illicit trade (especially to children and others who can' afford to buy legally); regulating strength simply creates a black market for more potent drugs.
Tobacco and alcohol abuse may cause many deaths, but how can legalizing more dangerous substances do anything but make things worse?
johnbull123 2 years ago
i dont think weed is a dangerous substance, nor is MDMA although it has been hyped up to be
Saxophonic 2 years ago
Well, people were saying that a few years ago before official statistics were available and the long term health risks were not as well understood. This was exactly the same situation with tobacco 50 years ago.
Then in 2007, the NHS National Treatment Agency published figures showing there were 22,000 cannabis users undergoing rehab treatment for their addiction - nearly half of whom were under 18, causing many long-term advocates of legalization to think again.
johnbull123 2 years ago
...Yes, drug use. What next my friend?
I wonder which political party you support, as all three of those buffoons are more drug friendly than the manufacturers themselves.
Yes... a lot of legalised drugs kills a lot of people, welcome to the World of privatisation and money, Which you seem to support.
Staranc 2 years ago
Correct me if i'm wrong, but wouldn't there be far more people using alcohol and tobacco rather than drugs? Lot's of people go on the lash every weekend for example but not everyone takes drugs. If that's the case, the figures for alcohol/tobacco related deaths are going to be higher if more people use them.
I reckon legalising drugs would only make the matter worse, not straight away but over time. Drug use would become established in our culture like drinking is now and the stats would climb
IKilledElviss 2 years ago
surely the statistics about deaths would point to the conclusion not that drugs should be legalised but that alcohol and tobacco should be illegalised?
Oct23rd4004BC 2 years ago
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Cacophonaut 2 years ago
As you get older, you'll become more conservative and more right-wing. It's only when your young your liberal/leftist (due to no experience of life).
old9skool9love 2 years ago
i would like to think you were right mate ,but i can not ever see this d-khead
in this video becoming more right wing ,he is just another middle class brain washed mummy,s boy who thinks one day we will all be living in a beautiful multicultural drug free and crime free society ,he is a complete muppet
gregthegooner 2 years ago
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Cacophonaut 2 years ago
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Cacophonaut 2 years ago
So all people are liberal when they young and slowly become more conservative?
If not then how about those who are more conservative when the are younger but become more liberal? Do they lose life experience?
How about those who are still liberal when they are older? Do they not have any life experience?
whatageeza 2 years ago
Also, how have you come to this conclusion? I have looked on your profile and it says you are 22!
whatageeza 2 years ago
I agree drug dealers are scum. Why would there be any drug dealers if the drugs were legal? They'd be sold by the government. The junkies on the streets will be there if the drugs are illegal or not, though if they're legal then they would be cheaper, one less WW2 veteran to need to have attacked. If you want to attack this problem, why not start at the core of it?
Thanks for the props on my films.
johnoverity 2 years ago
NuLabour has become a government intent on peddling ever increasing amounts of one of the most dangerous drugs out there: Alcohol. I like a drink, most people do but having an alcoholic parent (who died when I was 21) made more aware of the dangers of alcohol than most. Yet again, excellent commentary!
pete2778 2 years ago
Ecstasy would kill more if it was legal.
dimdom2111 2 years ago
Drinking alcohol would kill less if it was illegal, there'd be fewer alcoholics, smoking tobacco would kill less if it was illegal, there'd be fewer heavy smokers, driving cars would kill less if it was illegal because people wouldn't be able to speed or drive recklessly but none of these potentially dangerous activities are illegal, people are allowed the choice to do all of the above. Also, if Ecstasy was regulated, people would know what they were getting. I'm struggling to see your point.
pete2778 2 years ago
you have a scientology ad by your head
HalfAKiw1 2 years ago
i'm not very informed on this subject really so my views are mostly common sence i think. All i know is what you've said, TV ads saying "you don't know what it'll do to you" and my school teachers saying "DON'T DO DRUGS!"
My view is that if what's currently happening isn't working, try something else, if that is worse, change it back.
I actually have been completely put off drugs and alcohol and everything else pretty much because of my teachers so maybe there's something in education.
stephable1121 2 years ago
if people choose to do drugs thats fine by me ,but when it becomes a habit and they turn to crime ,then its time to give them a lethal injection and get rid of them , why should my taxes pay for some lowlife heroin addict to get free nhs and probally spend the rest of thier life living on benefits .people know what they are getting into when they take drugs so i have not one iota of sympathy for them
gregthegooner 2 years ago
When you start taking drugs to escape the world as you said, that is when it starts becoming an addiction. I also think that the other guy probably meant that people who ARE addicts are sick. I'm opposed to legalized drugs, unless for medical Purposes. Mainly because look at the problems legalized stuff causes. Drunk Driving, cancer, addiction, and I think that there will be more people if more stuff is legalized. If I offended anyone I'm really sorry I didn't mean to!
wondersgirl101 2 years ago
Please don't take my comments as 'anti-drugs' - people can take whatever they want for all they want, I couldn't give a shit. Most people have tried drugs, I'm no exception. Just saying that, from a solely 'what is good for society' point of view, legalising drugs would be bad. I can imagine people turning 18, trying hard drugs, having another go, then eventually get addicted. It would probably cause a huge increase in addiction among the upper class, and working class.
davidacolley 2 years ago
I'm sure this UN guy meant that ADDICTS are ill, and that's one good way of looking at addiction in my opinion. I'm pretty sure he didn't mean to say ALL drug users are ill..and if he did, well..it really doesn't matter what he said.
I really don't think drug legalisation is a good idea. Doing this would just lead to an increase in addiction I think, and what sort of society would we be if we started selling drugs such as heroin legally, across the counter at special drug outlets?
davidacolley 2 years ago
how can my dad be gay you inbred retard .he has been giving your mother a good seeing to for years
gregthegooner 2 years ago
Your hair is lovely, and I wish I could say something more in-depth than that, but I have a headache and I'm going to bed.
Smogget 2 years ago
i have never seen as much dope as seen in this video
gregthegooner 2 years ago
loser
iCancelledSchool 2 years ago
sorry mate did not mean ti insult your gay lover
gregthegooner 2 years ago
its fine you didnt. you insulted your gay dad.
iCancelledSchool 2 years ago
Sorry, I posted that compliment without engaging with the topic of your video:
I agree with you. The damage that the illegal drug trade does is so massive (particularly in the poorer countries, where the drugs are produced) that regulation seems to be the only plausible avenue - the "war on drugs" just doesn't appear to be working.
Nonetheless, I would say that I think it is immoral to take certain drugs, but this is mainly because they will have been produced in an exploitative way e.g. coke
WoollyWords 2 years ago
Your new hair is sexy!
Good job mate :)
WoollyWords 2 years ago 2
At 04:06 I shall get back to you later. Just subscribed to you cos of this vlog :)
noggin48 2 years ago
lmao the rating bit is very cute and made me "lol" it was great.
IBeEvil 2 years ago
Argh I always miss your blogtv show, I'm deeply upset!
deathbyclownage 2 years ago
I could not agree with you more mate!
I feel it should not be the job of the state to tell people what to do.
PFMBLASHYRKH 2 years ago
CON'TD-- Individuals can recreationally use drugs if they prefer, same with smoking--both have their dangers, but youve got to be responsible. Society takes the people who abuse it for an example, and those are the people who do need personal help. Now, when you boil it down, it does come to the drug industry. Theres the real root of the problem! ! Legalisation will NOT increase drug use, because if you really want it, youll find a way to get it.
SlytherCLAW12 2 years ago
This is a very controversial topic, we did a whole unit in English. Personally, I agree-- I think legalisation of drugs is a realistic way to combat the issue. When people think of drugs, they think of the violence that comes behind it because of notorious trafficking. And its true, how much times do you hear of split blood over dealing issues? You dont see this with cigarettes or alcohol, because theyre legalised.
SlytherCLAW12 2 years ago
1) there are too many factors involved. its impossible to say EVERYONE is either in need of help, or in need of criminal retribution.
2) I feel like if they changed the laws and whatnot and said that people wouldnt necessarily get jail time for drugs might make more people do it. Having to go to a few "help" sessions isnt as frightening as going to jail.
So I guess I say they keep it the way it is, unless they're prepared to look at each case individually and decide what that person needs.
MusicIsFreedom42 2 years ago
I do definitely agree with you, but just wanted to pick a point with the statistic stuff on alchohol/tobacco/drugs. The sheer amount of people that use tobacco and alcohol in comparison to drugs is huge. So I do think that comparing the amounts of people who died p/a because of these three things can't be compared with the numbers themselves, but should be compared with percentages to show the percentages (obviously lol) of people who died as a result of each three things. Thank you :) x
emma747474 2 years ago
I agree with you.
Azrepheal 2 years ago
for once i dont agree with you... I reckon Antonio Maria is right... call it spanish thinking, idk! btw: good spanish accent!
popautor 2 years ago
Do you really think that drugs being illegal stop people taking them? Then you are a fool. Access was never a problem when I was growing up. I was always left with the choice of taking them or not in the same way I could choose to drink alcahol, though drugs always seemed more cool as they were against the law. What world did you grow up in?
johnoverity 2 years ago
woa Ryming you do your blogs standing up? Good thinking, brain is more active when you're standing I've heard.
I say tax the people making the drugs, spend the cash on helping out the problems caused by them. It would mean cleaner drugs, more awareness and a very large amount of surplus money. If they came up with a drug as strong as booze now, there's no way it would ever be legal. I do feel that there would be some pretty full on teething problems though. Laters Johno
johnoverity 2 years ago
that last comment was supposed to be in reply to a commenter not to the video :)
mearnsyy 2 years ago
Smoking never actually killed anyone. The statistics are a con. Consider a moment! The incidence of smoking has been falling for 50 years; the incidence of cancer and heart disease has been increasing for 50 years. Clearly tobacco is not to blame. There is no such thing as a 'smoking related disease'. In fact it is doubtful whether smoking killed anyone.
MBChB1961 2 years ago
what the hell are you talking about?
99toon 2 years ago