XPost: uk.legal, uk.politics.drugs   
   From: Blah@hotmail.com   
      
   Svenne wrote:   
   > On Thu, 30 Jul 2009 00:38:59 +0100, Blah  wrote:   
   >   
   >> Svenne wrote:   
   >>> On Wed, 29 Jul 2009 20:45:06 GMT, agnon  wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>> On Wed, 29 Jul 2009 12:26:29 +0100, Blah wrote:   
   >>>>   
   >>>>> My gf has bipolar syndrome, and her pshycologist is quite insistant that   
   >>>>> it was caused by her canabis abuse during her teens.   
   >>>> Psychologist or psychiatrist?   
   >>> All the booze that Blah imbibes has addled his brain.   
   >   
   >> Yours methinks, as you can't work out that BOTH have a hand in mental health   
   >   
   > Of course they do.   
      
   I meant Psychologists AND psychiatrists both have a hand - proved elsewhere.   
      
   >   
   > Your knowledge and experience tells you that cannabis is particularly   
   > dangerous and causative of mental illness, mine tells me that alcohol   
   > causes far more grief that cannabis.   
   >   
   > But whatever.   
      
   Most alcohol related problems can be salvaged - even the most hopeless   
   alky sobers up or can be put through rehab.   
      
   I'm sure the same goes for drug use, but I don't think you'll find an   
   equivalent in alcohol for the brain-frying effect alleged for some   
   cannabis users. And once the brain is broke, you can't rehab it.   
      
      
   >   
   > A lot of stuff that people come into contact with in life can fuck   
   > their heads up and not all of it is stuff that you eat, swallow,   
   > smoke, snort  or push up your arse.   
   >   
   > This doesn't mean that everything thought unsafe should be banned to   
   > try to make the world a cotton wool Disneyland for disempowered and   
   > infantalised child-adults.   
   >   
   Who said anything about banning it - I certainly haven't - I   
   consistantly maintain that the "Its ok, try some, makes me happy"   
   brigade should shut their faces and let newbies do or don't as they see   
   fit. "Its on the table over there, do as you want"   
   Why do users seem to feel the need to bang on about it? I love my   
   Strongbow, but you don't get me going on about how marevelous it is,   
   insisting the tax rate is reduced, try some!   
      
   Pushers - what a perfect word.   
      
      
      
   > You live your life and take your risks, wether it is mountain   
   > climbing, drinking ale or puffing pot. Hardly anything is safe and a   
   > life dedicated to all that is safe and nice ends in death anyway.   
   >   
   > Might as well live your life while you've got it.   
      
   And leave others to make their own mind up, rather than pushing a   
   lifestyle on to them?   
      
      
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