What/who influnce people to turn to illegal drugs?
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HOWABOUT LIFE IN GENERAL..
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Our drug policy causes more harm than the drugs themselves. Adults have the right to take risks, to make foolish choices. What next, laws to compel us to eat our spinach?
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These days we use the expression trafficer for people who transport something illegal: drugs, diamonds, and people.  These are today's slave traders, but the slaves often have to pay for themselves first.  People are jettisoned or abandoned whenever the trafficers find them inconvenient.  Some are left to die in deserts or suffocate in hot, crowded trailers and cargo containers.  Then they are delivered to sweat shops or farm fields where someone again pays the trafficers.
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anyone who thinks drugs should be illegal purely for health reasons must certainly agree that all fat people should be put in jail for hurting themselves.....\n\nthe only thing that should be illegal involving drugs is the use of drugs to harm another person... and since harming another person is already a crime... then by default if you take a drug and you do something stupid... you're already in trouble by the law... taking the drug itself shouldn't be a crime\n\nwho really cares if a person harms themselves using a drug... cigarettes, alcohol and fatty foods do the same thing... breathing in fumes from household cleaners is bound to kill cells too... but hey it's not illegal to smoke, drink, eat mcdonalds, and clean your toilet... taking a drug should be a choice... citizens should have the freedom to take them if they want... advocation against drugs should be aimed at influencing people to not take them and try alternative activities.. and NOT to place bans and restrictions on them\n\nbesides in the long run... if someone dies from an OD... then 1. it's their fault... and 2. less "stupid" people in our overpopulated world\n\nbut yes that really didn't answer your question... it was more of an opinion...
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drugs are the worst thing that can and does distroy all aspects of life. they are the cause of most crime from petty to top of the tree. you only have to have known somebody who has or is drug dependant to understand what i mean. as for culture, sadly it has become trendy to take drugs. all dealers should be hung because they are the destroyers of social collapse
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I don't know I can only say I hope its a LONG one. Retards that produce (and its prob meth) should go down as examples and be punished to the fullest. These drugs promote filth and crime, child molestation, and prostitution along with many other negative things. One does not produce drugs without knowing the awful effects, they just don't care. In jail you go my friend.....see ya butt head! (whoever it is)
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No, I don't think there's any correlation.  The type of work that illegal immigrants do, precludes having a lifestyle that includes drugs.  Once an affront to your civil liberties is taken away, and we continue like sheep to comply, it's never given back.
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Try the UNDOC (United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime) website.  You can also try the Global Drug Prevention Network site.
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Any "illegal" drug which doesn't have to be manufactured should be legal.  I don't believe in God, but the best religious support I've heard for Marijuana and Mushrooms is: By making these drugs illegal is like saying God was wrong!  Take that to the local church, or even the religious leader Goegre W. Bucsh (yes, he probably spells his own name incorrectly).
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NONE.  Drugs are for looseerrss!!!
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The same kind of people who feel the solution the the health issue of drug abuse is best handled by prisons...the same people who think that the US will bring democracy to other countries even if we have to kill all the "evil doers" to accomplish our goal.\n\nThere are real problems associated with illegal immigration, but it won't be solved by criminalizing the issue...that is how totalitarian regimes solve problems...hopefully the USA is better than that.
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what are they smuggling?\nDrugs/contraband reported to DEA, Federal crimes reported to the FBI etc
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That is a great question - you hit the nail totally on the head at the absolute ridiculousness of the supposed "war on drugs". \n\nWhy are we telling people not to take "illegal" drugs such as cocaine, ecstasy, cannabis, etc., when "legal" drugs such as prozac, seroxat and zoloft are used in pretty much exactly the same way.\n\nIt comes down to money and control. Pharmaceutical companies make billions of dollars from psychiatric drugs and GPs seem to hand them out to people like candy. And what do these drugs actually do? They certainly do not cure anyone of anything. Mental illnesses are not physical diseases. Taking prozac for "depression" is not like taking insulin for diabetes. Psychiatry is total junkscience. All these drugs do is simply change the normal chemistry of the brain to create a false psychological state. Long-term use, like any other drug, can be seriously harmful, both physically and mentally, and yet many people swear by them as some sort of modern day wonder. These same people, i'm guessing, at the same time, are probably telling their kids about the dangers of smoking weed or snorting coke...! It's totally crazy.\n\nAll psychoactive drugs are harmful, whether "legal" or "illegal". Instead of fussing about the legality and costs of recreational drugs, or being blinded by the giant pharmaceutical companies' propaganda regarding "psychiatric medications", governments should look into what is missing in society for people to turn to mind-affecting drugs in the first place.\n\nMike\n\n--\nDecoding Psychiatric Propaganda\nhttp://groups.msn.com/psychbusters\n\n\n--------------\nNOTE ADDED: 03 Feb 2006\nFairyNanook, Of course... anyone who has even the slightest criticism of Psychiatry must be a Scientologist! LOL! Do me a favour! And as for your claim that "depression is a physical disease, just like every other disease out there" I would simply say this: PROVE IT! Provide me with some SCIENTIFIC PROOF! No one has been able to so far, including the NIMH, NAMI or the American Psychiatric Association. Only last July did the president of the APA, Dr. Steven Sharfstein admit that "We do not have a clean-cut lab test". Check the DSM IV and it even says it in there. There is no evidence that ANY mental illness is a physical disease. If you have been told differently then know this: YOU HAVE BEEN LIED TO. Check http://groups.msn.com/psychbusters for more info.
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Those who use them. People who sell weapons may facilitate some of the most heinous crimes ever commited, but ultimately, the responsibility for those crimes lie with those who actually pull the triggers.
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Word of mouth. Weaklings who use drugs need to know that many of their peers are very happy without poisoning their bodies. \n\n(But don't start quoting religious scripture,  that approach just puts people off!)
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Call the cops, post neighborhood watch posters, start talking to the neighborhood people and get rid of the drug dealers. If enough people want them out---they will get out.
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adiction to them  most are narcotics