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08-20-2014, 11:34 AM | #106 | |
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But that doesn't figure in because Dust Off isn't a "drug". |
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08-20-2014, 11:35 AM | #107 | |
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Better leave that pill bottle out in the open and accessible to any and everyone that uses the bathroom. |
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08-20-2014, 11:36 AM | #108 |
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yeah, pharmaceuticals I can see as the new way to kick off a career in drugs.
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08-20-2014, 11:38 AM | #109 |
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But that's ok. It's legal. It was developed by a scientist and prescribed by a doctor. Fine upstanding citizens, not drug dealers.
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08-20-2014, 11:40 AM | #110 | |
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My previous example of chick stipping to prostitute isn't far off - at least from showing a corollary/causation cross mapping potential within an individual. In fact, guys attempting to turn chicks into accepting prostitution as an acceptable method for whatever always start with getting them into the stripping trade first. (And there are in fact guys who do this exact thing - going to diners, whatever, and looking for prospective girls to breakdown over time to get them into the whoring trade.) Once those initial internal psychological more walls are broken down, it's substantially easier break down the thicker, stronger ones. Same thing with the cigarettes, booze, marijuana, coke, crack to meth transition. Sure, not everyone does it, but once the initial wall is breached, the others are easier to climb over or break down. |
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08-20-2014, 11:41 AM | #111 | |
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I grew up in drug culture. I didn't do hard drugs, but a lot of my friends did and I was.. um... an entrepreneur in those days. Those ****ers would start fiending for shit and start huffing dust off. I never did that shit. I kept telling them that shit is 'crack in a can'. One guy did is so much he's basically a ****ing reerun now. Sad. |
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08-20-2014, 11:42 AM | #112 |
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Everything you experience is a gateway to something.
It's called life.
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08-20-2014, 11:43 AM | #113 |
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I didn't know about the whole Dust Off thing until I wandered around a CVS for 20 minutes looking for it.
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08-20-2014, 11:44 AM | #114 |
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08-20-2014, 11:45 AM | #115 |
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You can't buy it anywhere here without flagging someone down. It's all kept under lock and key because people were walking into Wal Mart, spraying it in their mouth, and then putting it back on the shelf.
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08-20-2014, 11:45 AM | #116 |
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I posted that realizing completely that it will end up affecting me if someone I care about decides to become a burnout or a crackhead, or in a more general sense in society because of the societal costs. But in a vacuum, I don't care. I don't care if people want to take the responsibility for consequences that come along with it. That is all I meant.
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08-20-2014, 11:47 AM | #117 | |
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Well, except caffeine. We market that shit to children. Of course, I know a lot of people who smoke weed and don't do other drugs.. including alcohol. One of them is a lawyer I worked for. You would not believe the people who tried to solicit weed from me as a teenager, including a fellow I won't mention because he's been a staple of a certain local network's evening news. |
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08-20-2014, 11:48 AM | #118 |
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Like some others have said, it's not the drug itself but how you obtain it that is the gateway to a different world of accessibility. If you know a way of getting pot illegally, then you most likely already have an easy contact to experiment with harder drugs if that's your thing. If they sold pot at the gas station next to the Miller Lite, they wouldn't offer to throw in some meth for only a couple bucks more. There is nothing chemically about smoking weed that makes people crave shooting up some heroine along side it.
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08-20-2014, 11:54 AM | #119 | |
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There is no way that you are going to have zero prohibition at any level within any society as it relates to alcohol, drug use, etc. The effects are so varied and uncontrollable under individual usage that no society will ever allow zero prohibition on such things. As such, your argument is invalid. And because of the individual psychological and physiological variants are so wide, there is no way that it can be a situation where it's a "either/or" as it relates to correlation or causation. That's really the whole point of my blathering - that because there is no way to specifically determine the gateway conceptualization as it relates to one specific drug, either from an individual or societal perspective, it has to be addressed in a more encompassing authoritarian manner based on what society perceives as correct from a majority perspective. (And, even then, I'm not necessarily sure that in these instances that the majority of a society can be trusted with the decision making process. Perhaps Hamilton was right after all...) |
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08-20-2014, 11:54 AM | #120 | |
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