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DRUGS ARE BAD.

HUGS NOT DRUGS

hugs not drugs

As long as you include alcohol and pharmaceuticals in the "drugs category" otherwise you are a hypocrite.

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Southern Justice

I wrote this song about Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpio. I gave him the original copy with just me on my guitar playing "Southern Justice". Shortly after that he kicked me off the posse.

Southern Justic by Colonel Pepper

Trey Haltom

Medical Marijuana Policy Project

http://marijuanapolicy.blogspot.com/


The solution to the cause of the drug problem

I believe that I have the formula for saving the world from its drug problem....If all the police forces over the world STOPPED creating informers from their criminal captures .i.e Jail the guilty..... No taking information from dealers in return for lesser or no punishment.... The outcome would be ......... slowly but surely the guilty will be caught ..... No exceptions ........from the top big shops to the addicted street dealer..

More later.............

People make drugs evil,when

People make drugs evil,when honestly if u are mad at drugs its usually a human beings fault. Drugs cant hurt you unless of course for example some gangbanger decides to shove it down ur throat u know wat i mean?

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Hugs make people uncomfortable sometimes. Drugs dont.

Hugs

saw your response to "Hugs not Drugs" and even though you may have a point, I bet that if you ask a new born baby who because of the parents doing drugs, is now a drug baby, have you ever seen a baby that was forced to be hooked on drugs because the mother was an addict. It a ugly sight. I would support your movement to stop the drug war, as soon as they pass a law making it a crime punishable by death for parents that give birth to drug addict babies.

ask a new born baby. im sure

ask a new born baby. im sure it say much.

if we spent more money

if we spent more money helping people stay off drugs and less money putting people in jail for drugs i bet you would see a drop in the use of drugs take it from an ex-addict i went through 15 rehabs and 20 years of getting high. if someone would have help me rather than making me hide out to get high i would have kicked it sooner... rehabs are just ways of getting new hookups

drugs

ther bad

drugs

ther good

Arguing

Arguing on the internet is like running in the special olympics...

even if you win, you're still retarded

Hugs on drugs

I've been using drugs for several years now, and even in the depths of an amphetamine addiction, I have been a loving, caring person. Love will not keep people off drugs, unless they find themselves hurting those that they love because of drugs (this is why I quit doing speed). I see what you are saying, but I would just like to say that not everyone who does drugs, even the hardest and most horrible drugs, is an unhappy person, or does drugs because they are unhappy.

Have a nice day, and remember, even tweakers can have feelings.

drugs

good or bad, they are here, and the sooner we face the fact that law enforcement has failed to stop drugs, the sooner we can deal with the problem . How many more Americans will fall in the drug war ?

http://scint-stinks.com

drugs

there here 2 stay, deal with it!

WHO DO YOU TRUST?

GOD MADE GRASS, MAN MADE CIGARETTES..... WHO DO YOU TRUST?

I TRUST GOD! BRUTHA

I TRUST GOD BRUTHER!

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"God" made the tobacco plant
and its been smoked for centuries
not just in cigarrettes

Drugs

I wonder when this country is going to wake up & choose health over drugs. It is our choice, anyone can use drugs but it takes a real man/woman to face the troubles of your past and today and be strongs enough to handle them soberly.

health over drugs?

no one will ever choose health over outside stimulation, some people smoke joints to give them the endorphin rush they need, others take steroids and work out, some run really far and damage their entire cardiovascular system through over exertion and the stress that accompanies an unrelaxed lifestyle.

legalize drugs, if we dont need to buy them illegally (and people always will) then the cartels will collapse and a huge ammount of police resourses will appear.

besides, we should all be allowed to choose... right?

I Don't Use, But I Support

It is the responsibility of the government to protect me from others, and not myself.

Help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

would some Real-life law enforcement type people start contributing to this thread I'm starting to get a really bad headache(;-)) wading through this bullshit.

drugss

why cant people just relise that drugs will never disapear unless the goverment and the police and also just normal people make it happen.we have to make a statement by making a new law that if you supply anyone with a class A drug then you will be put to death. sooner or later people will relise that theyre goin to be killed if they dont stop selling and using. this is however a longterm thing but will be more effective.
thanks x

It's just right!

I'm the same person from the "help!!!!!" message. Law enforcement personnel are the one's on the front lines the one's who can bring it home the best, what consequences the war on drugs are having on society. please no replies if not sincere (i.e. crooked MoFo's crooks (crooked crooks :-)) and cops (crooked cops ;-)) alike.

PEACE,

CIPHER

Drugs are bad, Mmmkay...

But drug LAWS are worse! Just say no to stupid legislation.

drugs are important mmmmmkay?

i'm really sorry, not to flame you or anything, but your a complete bellend

natural drugs are good for eating?

natural drugs are good for eating?
swallow it?

DRUGS GOOD OR EVIL?

Drugs are like money. People make drugs evil,when honestly if u are mad at drugs its usually a human beings fault(FOR INSTANCE YOURSELF?). Drugs cant hurt you unless of course for example some gangbanger decides to shove it down ur throat u know wat i mean?

The only problem

The real problem we face when dealing with drugs is not the drugs themselves, but drug abuse. The solution to drug abuse is not the revocation of substances. The solution is teaching children that a drug addiction is either
a. managable (many people lead completely uncomplicated lives and still do heroin)
b. psychological and no different than a video game addiction

once proper knowledge is in place, people refuse to let themselves make mistakes or take dangerous risks

Say KNOW to drugs

hmmm..

drugs will always be here . whether legal or illegal.. have any of you watched the movie blow?,, look how many times goerge jung was busted and he still dealed.. what makes you think that because you get caught..your not gonna continue to do it. some cocaine dealers make billions..when done properly..so getting charged with 100 grand is nothing to them.. they can make it back in a short amout of time. 90% of our cocaine is from columbia...over 50 million people in the world are heroin addicts..i bet you not half of those will never get bustted..
just give up..let the screw ups make their own choices... people learn from their mistakes

What can we stop?

Marijuana can be grown by idiots. Mushrooms can be grown by idiots. Opium poppies can be grown by idiots. Heroin can be brought into the country by idiots. Cocaine can be brought into the country by idiots. Crystal Meth can be cooked up by idiots. PCP can be cooked up by idiots. Ecstasy can be synthesized by idiots, and the other deadly chemicals usually sold as "E" tablets can be synthesized by idiots too.

Because the above drugs are so easy to supply and demand is so high, there will always be people to supply them. We can make small dents in the supply which will recover in a matter of weeks or months.

LSD can't. LSD is a complex molecule. It takes an advanced degree in chemistry to synthesize. The number of people in the United States cooking up acid in notable quantities is in the single or double digits. It's the only chemical, the ONE AND ONLY CHEMICAL, targeted by the drug war where a couple of busts can seriously damage the market.

But why would we want to target Acid? In the mid-20th century LSD was being hailed as a miracle chemical. It was being used to treat schizophrenia and a number of other mental disorders with unparalleled success. Canadian scientists used LSD to help alcoholics put down the bottle forever. Timothy Leary gave LSD to students of academia and religion who found it to be the most enlightening experience possible for man. Watson and Crick were under the influence of LSD when they determined the structure of the DNA molecule. Criminals were able to return to society as fully-functioning citizens after their experiences with Acid.

Why should a war's only successes be against a drug that saved so many lives and enriched so many more?

LSD

Is that true that Crick and Watson were under the influence of LSD when they discovered the DNA sequence of the double helix. I have done LDS 6 times in my life between 18 and 21 I am now 40 and won't ever do it again but I thought it was an enlightening experience compared to anything else I've ever done. Can you post your information on Crick and Watson?

I'm actually scared

I'm actually scared how badly misinformed people are about drugs. Because we've lumped drugs into one category, people don't understand at all why people choose to do drugs.

I've read a lot about drugs over the past couple of years and I think I can say there are 4 broad categories of drug users: The bored, The Pressured, The Desperate, and The Curious.

I just graduated High School. I knew a lot of people who smoked weed, and they just did it because they were bored. On the weekends when there wasn't much to do, weed would make the most humdrum activities seem at least somehow interesting.

There are no friendly strangers with free drugs, but just like an office worker might be pressured to eat lunch at a restaurant with coworkers, so too are many celebrities and glitterati pressured to enjoy heroin and coke like the 80's idols. Soon it becomes an addiction and things just spiral down from there.

You lose your job. Your family is in ruins. You have no future. You need to escape from the misery of your day to day life. What could make you forget better than Crystal Meth? It's cheap, it makes you happy, and you couldn't care less about your situation. These people need help, not legal trouble.

The curious you may not understand. Read some Aldous Huxley if you're wondering what I mean.

drugs

I have read Alduous Huxley's Brave New World and I couldn't hlep but think about Soma (the drug they took to make them happy(comfortable)) I think that the outsiders ( it's been awhilie since I read the book) couldn't handle the Soma ie the mother overdosing. But the need remained to feel a euphoria at least once in awhile. This need has been with us forever but what is behind this need? If we could answer that we would be better off. But who are we as individuals to judge others on what they need to be comfortable? I;m not sure what my responsibility is to others when it comes to drugs but i"m positive it is not to lock them up!

Be realistic my friend, the winner is the dealer

We call them in spanish "camellos", cause they are the bearers of the drugs you never meet them, they use to act hidden to avoid legal control
of the police and justice . Kill them out and you,ll end up with the pest, if you don,t they,ll kill your son your brother or will finish with you relentlessly. A direct shooting to the head of the dealer will bring you a sensation of relaxation a feeling you had long forgotten.Recover your right to end up with the problem by yourself. A rude way of talking ,yes,but the real thing is that the cemetery is full of people killed not only by the drugs but for their dealers.

Drugs:

Hugs are free,
Why Can't Drugs Be?

Yuck

Personally i think they are a bad choice.

Ive tried em a few times and had fun sometimes but its really just a waste of
money.
Id rather be able to spend money on something else or have my brain to be able to work the next day.
I now despise drug use. Especially pot,not in others i dont hate them but when i use it
i dont enjoy it whatso ever, too much fear for no reason.

Mainly i think its a waste of money but ive made dumb decisions on pot or e's where its life changingly regretful.
But i wont hate users, just think overuse is dumb and can create problems.

drugs

the definition of drugs are ambiguous and defined, such as say prozac, aspro, anesthetics, and a huge range of legal drugs, the illegal drugs in the West such as cocaine is normal or not dependant on culture, a drug that is worth mentioning is money, as you are well aware our Prime minister, Rudds immediate family is worth 60 million dollars, the opposition leader worth almost three times that, my point is that they feel good to having a lot of dosh, I consider money the greatest drug, the ramifications are mind boggling, a lot of police CIA mi5 and 6 are involved in drugs, either for personal gain or for the perks they get directly or otherwise, such as superanuation, or financing military to kill people, drugs are extensively used in sport meaning the thrill of bio drugs such as adrenaline, a lot of sex in fact I would say entirely is to do with electrochemical body drugs, power and domination of others is drug related TV indoctrination, the subject is vast, this is just an outline of a bit of the drug maze.

drugs

the definition of drugs are ambiguous and defined, such as say prozac, aspro, anesthetics, and a huge range of legal drugs, the illegal drugs in the West such as cocaine is normal or not dependant on culture, a drug that is worth mentioning is money, as you are well aware our Prime minister, Rudds immediate family is worth 60 million dollars, the opposition leader worth almost three times that, my point is that they feel good to having a lot of dosh, I consider money the greatest drug, the ramifications are mind boggling, a lot of police CIA mi5 and 6 are involved in drugs, either for personal gain or for the perks they get directly or otherwise, such as superanuation, or financing military to kill people, drugs are extensively used in sport meaning the thrill of bio drugs such as adrenaline, a lot of sex in fact I would say entirely is to do with electrochemical body drugs, power and domination of others is drug related TV indoctrination, the subject is vast, this is just an outline of a bit of the drug maze.

Indoctrination..no one needs drugs or danger..to be happy..

The world's people, everywhere.. has been pushed to a place they can not think for themselves..feel what they actually feel..the tv..the music..the media..tells you exactly what you need..want..feel..crave..what you are..what you aren't..every darn day, is what someone has inferred..you need or want to get through an hour ..through your day. Messages running trough you head on a constant...do you actually think the thoughts in your head are yours?..nope!

Turn off the tv..quit listening to the music messages..do your day in a quiet.. an introspective way....thinking about maybe your purpose...think about the result of your actions..learn again how to quietly think..feel..be..with nothing besides yourself and those you love and really want to be around.

Talk about important things..really, think about those you love..show them you love them..they will show you they love you..the world will seem different, eventually..it will take time..as you have been indoctrinated..programed if you will..

You need to de-program yourself by being 'you again'..and those around you can be themselves..going through this with you and all will be healthier mentally and spiritually and physically for it...it is a growing, a nurturing thing..and it feels honest and good...you are doing it..

This life lasts a lifetime..ya have to figure it out to get through it sanely..that is the deal..

Try and eat really good food always, you'll need nourishment to be healthier as well...good luck!

WHATS THE POINT??

Like seriously what decent human being would take drugs??
it doesnt make ANYTHING any better you might as well go jump off an effing cliiff!
I HATE DRUGS
always have always will. They fuck up anything that was or ever will be important to you.

re: <b>Hugs On Drugs</b>

If something as strong as love cant stop people from doing drugs what will? Will the drug war ever stop? All those people that ‘use’ need to realise how much it hurts their family and friends. We understand that not all druggies have problems but the amount of people who do them and do have problems is at least 70%. I mean come on people.

plants

Scientific classification:
Here is what we set a war against'
Please read this'
Plants differ in their tolerance for heat, cold, and moisture, so when selecting plants, gardeners must take into account the climate of their region. Gardeners also evaluate the soil type and how much sunlight falls on the proposed site, factors that affect the types of plants that can be grown in a particular area. They consider, too, the plant’s life cycle—how long it takes a plant to grow, flower, produce fruits or seeds, and die. Annuals such as petunia's bloom and produce seed the same year they are planted, then die when cold temperatures set in.
Cicely, also myrrh, anise fern, and sweet chervil, common name for an herb with leaves that smell strongly of anise or licorice, member of the carrot family. The name cicely is also used for a related genus of herbaceous perennials (plants that live at least three years and have nonwoody stems) with fleshy roots, tiny white or yellow flowers, and cylindrical fruit. Both the herb and the genus are also called sweet cicely.
Maybe the drug will fight back like the swine did' If you declare war on something expect to be fought' weather on earth or in heaven If you threaten to kill it.
Who started this great war that never ends" On of all things a plant' we really people could we survive without plants? We would parish so where at war with ourselves, the bad man. IF it was a plant they could exterminate them all' If it where a man they would have to do it one at a time. So Chang the name of your war OBOMA to corruption' Look around you it is everywhere' get your teem together' you will never win against a fragile plant' if you do we will die.

The Drug War is costing more

The Drug War is costing more and more everyday. Medical Marijuana in California is already being taxed which is giving back to the cities and community. http://www.budtrader.com shows how different medical marijuana is in California compared to the rest of the United States.

Prison planet

I live in the heart of corruption Illinois I have been lobbying to legalize the use of it'
Without a prescription who gives the right to use a thing that grows in the ground"
A doctor I say no way these same corrupt doctors just want there piece of tyhe devine erb sale'
when in fact" Legalizing it would also curb drug trafficking between the United States and Mexico,” Richard sievert pointed this out clearly to our federal government .
Also these cops that arrest and track down users for nothing more than a plant is destroying America'
It is against everything the week Christians do.
The do nothing group that has not helped with strong issues like this in fact there pissing god almighty off when someone goes to jail they dissappear from the sight of the world accept for the edited slaver inside the prison system of hate.
I have a relic key and i and the almighty lord god are going to infect the criminal mind.
The judges the lawyers the real crooks the generals that send our children to fight for oil'
the lutenist Kernels and captains' the civil servants of hate

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