XPost: alt.drugs.hard, talk.politics.drugs, alt.drugs.psychedelics   
   From: w@sted.coma   
      
   "BlueInferno"  wrote in message   
   news:1179028898.253562.238170@q75g2000hsh.googlegroups.com...   
   > Recently i read a usenet article talking about how stupid the new DARE   
   > commercial was. Laughing about it, and the rest of the anti-drug   
   > propaganda commercials and websites. For a quick example, no one has   
   > ever died from LSD, there isnt any toxicity, and yet if you go to any   
   > website anti drug, it will list LSD and describe what its like to have   
   > a bad trip in the scariest language possible. It's stupid.   
   >   
   > But, someone in the thread brought up a good point, why dont we use   
   > REAL education about drugs? Like looking at erowid, it lists positive,   
   > negative and neutral effects of drugs, between everyone in these   
   > groups, we could pull a lot of information, both short term and long   
   > term about most drugs, or at least every popular one. If people, not   
   > just kids have honest resources it would be easier to make good   
   > descisions, even have directions for not killing yourself. Not getting   
   > addicted (So you dont have to withdraw). How to withdraw (if ou fucked   
   > up) and what to do if things go wrong. While this is something our   
   > goverment should be doing if you give someone nothing but bad facts   
   > they can tell its bullshit, just as badly as the people who act like   
   > there are no consoquences, there needs to be a happy medium.   
   >   
   > So, anyone who thinks this is worth s shot, anyone got ideas for a   
   > name, layout, portions of the website. Domain name, hosting, or an   
   > friends who may be interested, i really think we need this, and there   
   > is a ton fo information out there waiting to be tapped. I like erowid,   
   > however sometimes you cant find exactly what you need, and it doesnt   
   > actually offer usage information. My goal is to have a website as   
   > useful (ideally) as your local drug geek.   
   >   
      
   Well, you can try to dress this up anyway you like but it won't alter the   
   fact that drugs are bad. They are illegal because they are bad, and they are   
   bad because they are illegal. That makes them twice as bad. I used to have a   
   friend once, but I found out he was a drug addict, addicted to magic   
   mushrooms. So anyway, I haven't seen him since we moved, I'll bet he   
   probably overdosed. Probably from injecting dope. I can't understand why   
   people have to eat magic mushrooms when ordinary mushrooms taste so much   
   better? I like proper mushrooms because they don't make you go mad and they   
   aren't addictive or deadly poisonous.   
      
   A lot of people say "What about alcohol and tobacco? They are legal drugs   
   and they do much more harm." - Well, let's look at that for a minute. First   
   of all, alcohol is not a drug, it's a drink. It has been around for hundreds   
   of years and it's natural, a pure, natural creation - yeast, sugar and hops   
   are all gifts from God, not like LSD, cannabis and heroin which are produced   
   by men in white coats who tinker with deadly chemicals in their drug labs.   
   Bad things happen when you mess with nature. And what about all the   
   trillions of dollars these drug "kingpins" make? They spend it all on   
   terrorism and organized crime.   
      
   It's the same story with tobacco - it's not a drug - people don't get "high"   
   on tobacco. Native Americans have smoked cigarettes for thousands of years   
   because tobacco is a natural herb which grows in the ground. It dates back   
   hundreds of years. If drugs were good, they would grow on trees. And how   
   many of you have seen needles growing on trees? The only drugs that are good   
   are those prescribed by a doctor, and in fact they are medicines, not drugs.   
   Any doctor will tell you the same thing.   
      
   I haven't even touched upon some of the terrible diseases that illegal drugs   
   can cause - from sharing "joints" or needles - AIDS, mental illness, acne,   
   even death. I've seen someone die with my own eyes and it ain't pretty, I   
   can assure you. He was only a young guy, with his whole life ahead of him,   
   and he just tripped and fell into the road, where a bus ran over him. Is it   
   really worth getting dead just to get "high"? Why not just get high on life?   
      
   In my opinion, drugs should be illegal. Kids today need to know the harsh   
   reality of the deadly game of getting high. Winners don't use drugs. If you   
   want a slogan for your website, how about "Go and get high if you wanna die"   
   or "Forget marijuana, I'll have a banana".   
      
   Dr. 'doc' White.   
      
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