bad foods/drugs and Government regulations....

[cookiepuss]

So do you think it's good that governements regulate our access to bad foods and drugs?

for example NZ just did a study where they found evidence that smoking one joint of pot is equvilent to smoking 5 ciggys as far as your lungs are concerned. So upon hearing this news Great Britan says: "Hey maybe we should change the classification of ganja to a more dangerous drug because it's bad for your lungs."


NO!!!!!!! damn it, canabis isn't legal to smoke in public; it's already an illegal substance and just because it might be more harmful to my lungs than you thought doesn't not mean you need to reclassify it like it's fucking herion.:mad:

look they are my god damn lungs. if i want to fuck them up (ok in the privacy of my home not in public where someone else might be affected by my actions) that's my damn business. I don't need the government stepping in to tell me I can't fuck up my lungs.

I guess I'm pretty laissez-fair when it comes to this stuff. I don't like the government to interfear too much.

educate people; let the information be out there and then let people make thier own decisions on whether they want to injest or smoke things they KNOW are bad for them.

I mean candy is bad for us. it causes diabetes and other health problems. lets classify Ho Hos and Hostess Cupcakes as a drug and make them illegal.(y)
lets see how people go along with that.

[Bob]

you were closer to spelling "laissez faire" correctly than you were with "interfere"

that's crazy, laissez faire is hard to spell

[cookiepuss]

Damn it, I know. hahaa.:o

[cookiepuss]

oh and will some one please explain why we haven't made alcohol illegal?

we are on the verge of making ciggys illegal...we've banned thier use in public places due to second hand smoke....


and yet alcohol is responsible for liver failure, heart disease and numerous other health issues, plus people get drunk and drive a car and kill people....I don't know but that seems pretty....BAD to me.

So why oh why do we turn a blind eye to alcohol when we've vilified every other drug out there? conspiracy?

[Teh]

I think you're right about alcohol. I was pretty suprised when the started to come down on smoking in Scotland. The amount of revenue the government makes on tobacco and alcohol through tax is rediculous!

I would've rated alcohol as a more damaging substance than smoking, right enough. I don't think it'll be long before we start to see some policies though, just wait until David Cameron gets the idea into his head. :rolleyes:

[cookiepuss]

I think you're right about alcohol. I was pretty suprised when the started to come down on smoking in Scotland. The amount of revenue the government makes on tobacco and alcohol through tax is rediculous!

I would've rated alcohol as a more damaging substance than smoking, right enough. I don't think it'll be long before we start to see some policies though, just wait until David Cameron gets the idea into his head. :rolleyes:


we could see some policies...but now that I think about it...Prohabition was tried and it failed. maybe that's why no one has really taken the time attempt it again.

but that's the thing I suppose it don't understand about the root of these problems...we know that the prohabition of any substance is ill received. and people do it underground. and yet governments still want to ban things and reclassify things and make harsher punishments. none of this discourages people for doing it. the problem still exhists.:rolleyes:

[Teh]

we could see some policies...but now that I think about it...Prohabition was tried and it failed. maybe that's why no one has really taken the time attempt it again.

but that's the thing I suppose it don't understand about the root of these problems...we know that the prohabition of any substance is ill received. and people do it underground. and yet governments still want to ban things and reclassify things and make harsher punishments. none of this discourages people for doing it. the problem still exhists.:rolleyes:

I don't think they can impose anything on alcohol usage like they did on cigarettes though, and i really don't think prohibition was ever a realistic option, especially not today. Alcohol is far more popular, basically, and even trying to enforce something on the heaviest of drinkers (like all the 19-25 year olds binging) would be far too impracitcal and difficult to enforce. There would propably be serious public opposition, too. All they seem to do these days is advertise the risks and let people make their minds up for themselves, which really hasn't done much to reduce the numbers of people abusing.

[Otis Driftwood]

All they seem to do these days is advertise the risks and let people make their minds up for themselves, which really hasn't done much to reduce the numbers of people abusing.
'Cause it's fun! :cool: