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Originally posted by Red@Feb 15 2005, 08:05 PM
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Line these drugs up side by side and forget about the legal implications for a second. If you could choose only one drug to be legalised, which one would it be. And dont pick your personal preferance, but pick the one that you think would benefit society more than any other:
Alcahol
Cigarettes
Pot
Extacy
LSD
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That's just a dumb statement. The only drug that has benefits is marijauna. Now before you think I'm only saying this, because I smoke it, let me point out that I have a degree in pharmacy technology and I've taught pharmacology for the past two years, so Im not just talking out my ass.
Marijuana is one of the safest therapeutically active substances known. No one has ever died from an overdose, and it has a wide variety of therapeutic applications, and beneficial in treatment of the following ailments:
AIDS - it reduces the nausea, vomiting and loss of appitite caused by the disease and it's medications.
Glaucoma - It reduces intraoccular pressure relieving the pain and can slow down or even stop damage to the eyes.
Cancer - It helps the nausea and vomiting caused by chemotherapy
MS - it can limit the muscle pain and reduce tremors.
Epilepsy - in some cases it's been known to prevent epileptic seizures
Chronic pain - it helps in the relif of muscle pain, menstral cramps and other chronic pain and it's even helpful in dealing with alcohol addiction. (which by the way, is waht LSD was being used for before the government made it illegal in 1970.)
ok, I'm done. 
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Red, have I told you yet today that I love you?!
I made a choice between taking muscle relaxants every day that made me sleep 10+ hours just to be able to eat a few mouthfulls of food and like a walking zombie ALL THE TIME or having a toke at night before i go to bed, eating a strict diet and doing yoga every day.
It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure that one out.
Yes it can become a psychological addiction, which is harder to kick than a physical one, but coming off the muscle relaxants (which i only took for 3 months) was the worst experience EVER and a true chemical addiction which is more dangerous than I realized at the time. Instead I fixed myself with hard work and common sense and now I am healthy and feeling good almost every day. So fuck doctors, fuck the law and fuck anyone who thinks they have a right to decide that I'm *not allowed* to live my life without daily pain and medication!
I feel great now - and better than I did before I got sick ... and my choices don't effect anyone else.