Recreational Drug Use
 

I need help with my history project. It is due after Memorial Day weekend. My topic is the "issue of recreational drug use in America". My ideas have to be presented in a 20 min presentation. I'd like to talk about the use of drugs in early america (pre WWI). Talk about the famous americans that smoked weed. This is where i need your help now. I need help gathering information about present-day recreational use of drugs. I know weed is a common thing....but i don't smoke so i can't really explain much of it in a detailed way. Maybe, you guys can give me some examples of recreational drugs.


Think about the following about these drugs:

Society
Time period
People
Drugs
Politics behind drugs

thanks for the help. I know you guys will have fun with this one! biggrin:

dont know much about back then, dont do drugs either, but all i know that back then Cocaine was in Coca-Cola and cocaine was also used like an anasthetic. I know that doesnt pertain to the weed subject, but it might help

Many youths find Marijuana easier to get than Alcohol......That's what I found when I was under the drinking age.

It could be the same in the states...?


Anyways......If you need to know anything about side-effects of marijuana or anything like that, PM or something....

...Cause I can't really help you with the government drug issues, etc.

yea its definatley way easier to get weed than it is alcohol around here, well at least until this year because now its easy to get both.

check your pm

Garry, look up Cannabis and other drugs on EROWID'S VAULT: THE site for
everything drug related; be it information or usage and dosage. It also has
quite a few good articles in every drug category and profile.

[url:2f696]http://www.erowid.org[/url:2f696]

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All recreational drugs. All very fun to do. evil:

if ur a fucking idiot

[quote="aNti hEro":bc076]if ur a ------- idiot[/quote:bc076]

Lighten up bitch.

[quote=Totenkopf]Lighten up bitch.[/quote:cb0cf]

Easy, Girls. biggrin:

drugs are never good hake:

[quote="Sclass12"]drugs are never good hake:[/quote

Yeah, what has penicillin ever done good for you?

i think he means illegal drug use
god i hate the words recreational drug use, gives me the image of some stoners going camping out in a recreational camping ground

Mind / consciousness altering drugs are fine with me, so long as those
using them aren't on duty. It's like sex and sexual orientation: be gay
if you want, it doesn't make a difference to me. Why are people so anal
about drugs ? You don't hear people complain too much about alcohol
and cigarettes... oh wait, those drugs are deemed okay because of their
legality. You're a bunch of fucking hypocrites.

i dont know if you have ever heard of drug trafficking? it is a crime business done by crooks. no one wants to support that shit

... until the government wakes up and makes most drugs available and
thus, safer than their street counterparts which would, of course, remain.
Don't you see ? Alcohol and cigarettes are legal: why couldn't we legalize
some of the safer drugs for recreational use and make laws restricting
their usage to chosen locations the same way we tell people not to drink
and drive ? Humor me...

Yeah, do what they did in Holland. You can legallly smoke marijuana and buy it in shops, you just can't smoke a joint on a public place. I think if they legalised some of the less harmful drugs and shopkeepers and companies were allowed to sell and manufacture them commercially, the hazardous street drug dealers will simply go away thus reducing the risk of your children OD'ing on some laced pot.

There you go. How simple is it ? Concordantly, think of the money they could
make...

...the lack of Quality Control is a problem, yes....but never?...c'mon...dude..?...

when you hear about shootings, they are usually drug related. And drug money does support terrorism, and every time you smoke one, you are literally killing your body

Which is why marijuana should be legalised in the privacy of your own home.

If joints are being sold in stores, who's gonna go out and buy drugs off the street?

It's been stated before, fatty foods, salt, tobacco, booze and a whole slew of other shit is bad for you. They're still legal though. So I guess when mommy grids tylenol in your baby food because you have a headahe, she's killing you slowly too because of the side effects.

ha that commerical on TV

look what happened when they illegalized alcohol, it created the mafia. When it was legalized again, the mafia got weaker. also, marijuana is scientifically proven not to be as harmfull as cigaretes (if only used like 3 times a month.) if not used constantly, it is alos scientifically proven to be good for your longterm memmory. my dad is a narcotics guy and he thinks that marijuana should be legalized for AT HOME USE ONLY!, he says hed rather risk his life for crack, than a "brick of marijuana that anyone can get anywhere. Onthe other hand, if marijuana is abused, like alcohol is constantly, it can be a negative reaction

smoking a joint is more likely to give you lung cancer than smoking a cigarette...

It's pointless.

This is if you smoke the same amount of pot as cigarettes. 1 joint has the same harmful effects as 3 cigarettes. But on average a person might smoke 1 joint a day, but cigarette smokers smoke 10-12 cigarettes per day on average. You do the math.

But, if they did legalize weed, then people might smoke it more often because 1) it will be cheaper most likely with a flooded market and 2) they won't have to worry about using their supply up for the month when they can just go out and buy some very easily. Just a thought.

Absolutely not true.

NO CASE OF LUNG CANCER RESULTING FROM MARIJUANA USE ALONE HAS
EVER BEEN DOCUMENTED.

In fact, the reason for this is because marijuana contains one or more
cancer inhibiting agents. If you care to be enlightened in regard to this
issue, follow the white rabbit:

http://www.erowid.org/plants/cannabis/cannabis_health2.shtml

see what happens... when the word marijuana is mentioned everyone jumps to conclusions. i think certain drugs should be legalized, and i think if the government did some testing with it, some tweaking, and alot more... they could come up with controlled legal substances for consumers, but strict laws would apply such as the limits of where you can use them, boundries of how much, etc. i think if they did this, they wouldnt have to spend so much time trying to stop illegal drug trafficing. instead of wasting it, just killng criminals which can easily be replaced.. they could find their own way to get this stuff on the legal market, stopping illegal drug trafficing (not all), and possibly saving money.

whats memorial day weekend? is that like canada victoria day weekend?

i would say marijuana is the least harmful, but shit like cocaine and heroin? um....i'd like to see you get on that stuff if you are really hardcore for legalizing drugs. moron

I don't think marajuana should be legalised because it can bring out cases of schizophrenia if your family has a history of it. Trust me the last thing the gov. needs is a huge boom in mental patients.

But then again we allow cars on our streets....they kill people every year and nothing is said.

Alcohol is sold freely (but one could argue it is part of our culture)

Smoking is fine oOo:

It's the 21st Century and even in the future shit doesn't make sense.

if they legalized pot and sold it at stores they'd put an age limit on it like 18 or 21... therefore probably half the ppl who posted on this topic wouldnt be able to buy any cuz theyre underage oOo:

they allow cars because they benefit more than harm... oOo:

[quote="Old Reliable":b3a0e]they allow cars because they benefit more than harm... oOo:[/quote:b3a0e]

I wonder if the same could be said of cigarettes and alcohol ? Again, hypocrisy.

[quote=SoLiDUS]I wonder if the same could be said of cigarettes and alcohol ? Again, hypocrisy.[/quote:ac4c3]What's so good about cigarettes?! Maybe it provides jobs for kids in Columbia in the tobacco fields...i dunno.

[quote=SoLiDUS]I wonder if the same could be said of cigarettes and alcohol ? Again, hypocrisy.[/quote:901ca]

such a stupid statement. drugs are dumb, get over it and respect yourself. if you don't then so be it and waste your money and life away on drugs if you feel that is your need to live.

I still don't understand....just because alcohal or cigareetes are legal...doens't make them any less harmful then the illegal majijuana

[quote="Old Reliable":9036b][quote=SoLiDUS]I wonder if the same could be said of cigarettes and alcohol ? Again, hypocrisy.[/quote:9036b]

such a stupid statement. drugs are dumb, get over it and respect yourself. if you don't then so be it and waste your money and life away on drugs if you feel that is your need to live.[/quote:9036b]

true, but still alcohol is more harmful-all drugs are dumb but a majority of the world at least drinks alcohol

you shouldn't compare vehicles with drugs