Can any illegal drug be good for someone?

I think that drugs can have positives but I think that they'll rarely come without negatives and whether or not it's a net positive is hard for anyone to tell, most of all the user.

it is possible to self medicate to a positive outcome. responsible use is required. For instance a couple of generations of artists have widely used drugs, convinced that the change in consciousness is of great help to their work. We moderns have no doubt but that it is a good idea to drug people up on Ritalin and anti anxiety drugs and antidepressants, this highly drugged society has no basis to complain about weed and coke. Meth though messes people up big time, so I don't see a lot of upside to that.

Yes, and I'm one of them. My life would be impoverished without my daily glass of wine. I quite enjoyed the few joints I have tried. And sometime, when I'm in a better general mood than I am right now, I'd like to try LSD or one of its relatives, maybe magic mushrooms.

To me, consuming drugs is a matter of moderation, not abstinence.

Yes they can! I use pot as an alternative to the two perscriptions handed to me by a doctor, and I feel comfortable saying that I can better regulate my own anxiety by self medicating with marijuana. A recently paralyzed friend uses it to stimulate appitite and as a mood enhancer.. why deny a natural substitute with no known harmful side effects?

this is exactly what I did for a couple of years, worked out very well. When asked I caution people about illegal drugs, then add "but they worked out very well for me and I would do it all over again"

I think I'm a better person now for my drug taking.
I think that seeing what is synthetic has helped me realise the fickleness of life, how most barriers are mental, see things more objectively, realise certain things don't matter, opened my mind more than I thought possible...
therefore, I wouldn't really change anything, BUT- some of my drugs experiences have been the WORST experiences of my whole entire life, and the whole thing almost cost me a large amount of my sanity........
It's a really dodgy area.

Ok I have noticed that a lot of you have said that marijuana is ok. I was not really asking about that. Marijuana was never my choice of drug. In fact I never even tried it until my 21st birthday. I had a lot of friends that smoked it but I saw the way they acted on it and I did not want anything to do with it. When I did try it, it was with one of the guys that I used to work with. He told me that if I was going to do any drug I need to do it with someone that I can trust to watch over me. I found this kind of funny because that is how I have always felt. He ended up staying at my house the night of my birthday and we smoked. I didn't like the fact that everything seemed to slow down. I did like the fact that I slept soooo good that night. Since then I have smoked with him a couple of times. My main question is how everyone felt about hard core illegal drugs. (Crack, Cocaine, Crank, Crystal, Heroin, etc.) Do you think any of the hard drugs can be good for someone. Like in my situation. Crystal was good for me because it helped me stay focused in school.

Acid was good for me, but I only took it three times. That was all it made sense to take, there seemed to be nothing more to learn from it. I am glad that I did the three times though. Coke was fun but otherwise did nothing for me. I loved hash, but did not get to do it as much as I would have liked. Ecstasy was just coming out as decided to stop doing any drugs, based upon what I have heard I would have liked that a lot.

I would never make a diet of hard drugs...too much risk.

I think that its that whole everything in moderation saying, but the problem is most illegal drugs are addictive. If they weren't, and someone used them sparingly like once a month or something, I don't think they'd be bad. But because their addictive, that's not really possible.

Only some people are prone to addiction, and addiction is only a bad thing if what ever you are addicted to decreases the quality of your life and/or is not always available. You cant make the blanket statement that people are addicted to drugs so there-for they are bad. There are certain drugs like Crank and Heroin which addict most everyone, and so I see those drugs as bad and worthy of criminalization, but I note that I once read an entire book on the virtues of Heroin arguing that it should be legal.

Well that's true, not all drugs are addictive, like pot I don't think is known for it;s addictive properties, but I think people become addicted to what the drug does, whatever that drug is. I mean, if they weren't addicted to the effects of drugs, why do people do them on a regular basis? So I believe in some way, every drug is somewhat addictive to each person in a different way. And that's when you get the negative effects of drugs I think.

One possibility: Because the practice brings value to life. Why do you assume that people are so weak that if they are doing drugs it must be because the drug has a hammer lock on them? I know that this is the story that the anti-drug zealots tell, but you are smart enough to not buy into their undocumented and irrational clap-trap aren't you? Those who are trying to get you to conform to their will are not to be relied on for anything, use your own eyes and do your own thinking.

This may be true, but did we ever grant jurisdiction
to any government to control what we citizens can legally ingest?

I believe that we did not.





David

Well if ingesting drugs causes harm to others, then I don't see why it shouldn't be banned.

HOW ?

Well people who are hardcore addicted to drugs will do bad things to get them, I mean all the drug wars in Colombia and stuff, you know?

Thay can get them easily n cheaply (as thay used to b4 thay were outlawed) if thay r legal.

What happens in Colombia is none of our business.





David

Well it's not just Colombia. The fact is that they are people, and that's what drugs have created.

That is none of the government's business.
It has no jurisdiction to look after the well being of the people of Colombia.





David