dosent it seem drug policeare more dangerous than the drugs people use?
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no, drugs and thier dealers kill 100's,  the Police only use deadly force when forced,  so when they do, they are reacting to other deadly force.\n\nthey do a dangerous job, and using force is a requirement too often
397862
Drugs are more powerful and could be used to self medicate If people wanted to.That would NEVER happen because the pharmaceutical company's would not let it.Its all about MONEY,Good Luck to you,"The smoker you drink" Take care!Alcohol is responsible for 50% of every thing considered negative in this country.And nearly 60% of the murders,and traffic deaths.Drugs don`t even come close to the destruction caused by booze!
732946
Cars are not plotting to kill anyone, but morons who drive under the influence of drugs and alcohol are killing people every day. But more people have died because of these people who choose to violate the law than have died in the war on terrorism.
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I think pot usage was wider spread back then before the government dug in with all the anti-drug campaigning and subsidies to law enforcement.  The taboo of it has been softened too.  Coke was off the hook back then, really just getting started...but I don't think it's any worse than today, considering how strong the growing darker forces of the Columbian Drug Cartel have become.  So, all-in-all, the same...basing that on information from the media and the occasional creepy book or two covering the subject from Barnes & Noble....
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You have a valid argument. (And I am not in favour of drugs, to make that quite clear.) There are many bad substances that are legal, and others are not. It is all down to political blindness, or at best tunnel vision.\nIf the now illegal drugs would be legalised, the criminal element attached to them would fall by the wayside. Just as it did in 1933 after the prohibition of alcohol was lifted. Never has there been more alcohol consumed in the USA (for very high prices) as during the prohibition years. That should tell us.\nUnfortunately our politicians never learn anything from History.
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lol...what kind of a question is this...i'm sure everyone knows someone who abuses illegal drugs, it's just that some of the people that abuse illegal drugs don't go around telling everyone. Contrary to what the media portrays, there are many illegal drugs that don't make you act like a total idiot and only other people who have done the drug or people who have been around others doing the drug a lot would even know they were on it.
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I think drugs r wrong.  no one shuld do them.  the more people use drugs the more our world is goin straight down the drain.  i dont kno about any one else but i would definately not ever do drugs and i wuld nevr hang out wit people who do drugs b-cuz they r jus goin to drag me and others down in life.  i and many others want a good future and drugs promise nothing but prison, HELL, and death!\nDRUGS R TOTALLY WRONG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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It seems that the war on drugs is an excuse for making it a war on its own citizens rather than stopping the drugs at their source.\nand also a way of making the police forces bigger. \nDrugs a a big problem mainly because it is illegal and their is so much money to be made. It would be far better to leave everyone to make their own free will choice about drugs. \nThe real war on drugs begins and ends with one thing the user.\nIf everyone stop then the market would stop.\nSpend more money on education and help with drug addicts and\ntreat drug addiction as a sickness and not a crime.\nCigarette companies kill lots lots more people but somehow our strange laws allows the sale of cigarettes.\nIts a health problem that is and has not been properly looked at.
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I think that we obviously need better screening of police officers and some training to help them to deal with megalomaniac issues. but not all officers are like this but I agree too many are.The same can be said of many government officials.
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That is a great question - you hit the nail totally on the head at the absolute ridiculousness of the supposed "war on drugs". \n\nWhy are we telling people not to take "illegal" drugs such as cocaine, ecstasy, cannabis, etc., when "legal" drugs such as prozac, seroxat and zoloft are used in pretty much exactly the same way.\n\nIt comes down to money and control. Pharmaceutical companies make billions of dollars from psychiatric drugs and GPs seem to hand them out to people like candy. And what do these drugs actually do? They certainly do not cure anyone of anything. Mental illnesses are not physical diseases. Taking prozac for "depression" is not like taking insulin for diabetes. Psychiatry is total junkscience. All these drugs do is simply change the normal chemistry of the brain to create a false psychological state. Long-term use, like any other drug, can be seriously harmful, both physically and mentally, and yet many people swear by them as some sort of modern day wonder. These same people, i'm guessing, at the same time, are probably telling their kids about the dangers of smoking weed or snorting coke...! It's totally crazy.\n\nAll psychoactive drugs are harmful, whether "legal" or "illegal". Instead of fussing about the legality and costs of recreational drugs, or being blinded by the giant pharmaceutical companies' propaganda regarding "psychiatric medications", governments should look into what is missing in society for people to turn to mind-affecting drugs in the first place.\n\nMike\n\n--\nDecoding Psychiatric Propaganda\nhttp://groups.msn.com/psychbusters\n\n\n--------------\nNOTE ADDED: 03 Feb 2006\nFairyNanook, Of course... anyone who has even the slightest criticism of Psychiatry must be a Scientologist! LOL! Do me a favour! And as for your claim that "depression is a physical disease, just like every other disease out there" I would simply say this: PROVE IT! Provide me with some SCIENTIFIC PROOF! No one has been able to so far, including the NIMH, NAMI or the American Psychiatric Association. Only last July did the president of the APA, Dr. Steven Sharfstein admit that "We do not have a clean-cut lab test". Check the DSM IV and it even says it in there. There is no evidence that ANY mental illness is a physical disease. If you have been told differently then know this: YOU HAVE BEEN LIED TO. Check http://groups.msn.com/psychbusters for more info.
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There is a risk in anything we do in life.....\nA drug trial is no different......However,there are more chances of you getting run over by a car than perishing for a drug trial...
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Stress is a major factor, and the politics involved with police departments today would be another. Sometimes they are d***** if they do and d***** if they don't. If they don't arrest the criminals, then they aren't doing their jobs, and if they do arrest the criminals then they are in fear of persecution from the public, especially in major cities. Police officers, and firemen have the most stress of any occupation, other than the military. Check out the pay scale for police officers today. Some situations are justified, granted. But alot of what the television news broad casts show are sometimes one-sided. Notice how you don't hear both sides?
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i agree.\nthere are plenty of nasty illegal drugs, that people abuse and put added strain on the health services, \njust because alcohol is legal, it doesn't stop it being as destructive and an equally abused drug.\n\ni heard the other day that alcohol will b getting health-warnings, but the alcohol companies r busy finding ways 2 stop it.\n\ni'd rather b trapped in a lift with some1 with a bad case of tourettes than an alcoholic!
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thanks to our society! cops are just more important i guess. Yes they put their lives on the line everyday to protect and yes if you kill a cop you should get death no questions asked.  i also believe a sex offender should be put to death too no if ands or buts about it!!!!!!!  Or cut off their genitals as punishment, no no they let them back out on the streets to repeat again and again!
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Because people are ignorant about it and think it's worse than legal drugs.  And it's hard to change a moron's mind.\n\nAlcohol:\nDoes more damage to your body.\nCauses more accidents.\nMakes people do angry stupid things.\n\nMarijuana: \nmellows people out.\nMakes people get along with each other better.\n\nThere's really no comparison.
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I don't know about creating havoc every where, but the emergency rooms see a rise in injuries, police have more calls, etc. Some folks just act plain crazy so it does effect people.
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Not all laws are Godly laws, and there are corrupt people in all professions. I would say sometimes the people in law enforcement over step their bounds and even to the point of killing someone, but this doesn't mean all people in law enforcement are acting ungodly.