As is anything in very large amounts. It's when it's in the small amounts we have to give it a higher level of scrutiny - eg paracetamol ...
Everything in moderation and all that - even psychoactive substances.
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As is anything in very large amounts. It's when it's in the small amounts we have to give it a higher level of scrutiny - eg paracetamol ...
Everything in moderation and all that - even psychoactive substances.
I went into this in great detail in a thread on this topic. You'd have to search for it but I put all the evidence in there to demonstrate there is a fundamental difference between taking a drug under the age of 21 and over that age. Teenage years being especially problematic.
Well bar Bruce Lee I don't think it's quite that severe bar anaphylaxis!
I have seen stuff like that before (earlier being particularly bad), but thought up to ~25 was still pretty bad...
I'll have to search for your post(s).
It depends on the action of the drug and how actively the brain is developing at that time. If you think that the psychological outcome (and physiological and anatomical one) is driven by latent genetic impetus and environmental shaping, both of which feedback into one another, then you are giving it one hell of an environmental shaping.
The brain, from a sociological paradigm, will develop healthily when it develops down a route of accepted normality. If you expose that brain to non-normality then one can hardly be shocked when it is shaped into non-normal responses.
Surely if that were the case, then we'd still be seeing many more deaths amongst the thousands of people using NOS every weekend?
As it stands, peanuts kill more people. Ban peanuts!
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If they did clinical tests on a new paracetamol type drug that had the same chances of Death it would probably be deemed safe enough for sale. But since its recreational and involves enjoyment for people it can't be safe. Yawn!
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Thing is, the way our government works, they will never legalize all these relatively harmless drugs, we are at a time when they are slashing public spending and privatising off swathes of the NHS.
You only have to look at their existing policies for harmful drugs such as nicotine and alcohol, which is, collect taxation, regulate sale to minors, ???, ban some advertising, profit....
It's absolutely woeful, you'd have to revamp the NHS to support more drugs awareness, treatment, distribution, allocation, and rehabilitation to a meaningful level, as introducing more substances that are taxed and regulated would cause the whole system at breaking point already to collapse. Which would take money and effort the government aren't interested in, they just want to cut spending and increase economic growth in the most efficient and conservative manner.
You only have to look at their existing policies for harmful drugs such as nicotine and alcohol, which is, collect taxation, regulate sale to minors, ???, ban some advertising, profit....
It's absolutely woeful, you'd have to revamp the NHS to support more drugs awareness, treatment, distribution, allocation, and rehabilitation to a meaningful level, as introducing more substances that are taxed and regulated would cause the whole system at breaking point already to collapse. Which would take money and effort the government aren't interested in, they just want to cut spending and increase economic growth in the most efficient and conservative manner.
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Having just fitted an NO kit to my Westfield, I'll be upset if I can't get the bottle filled anymore - it's already hard enough to get hold of!