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by go_to_hellas on February 9th, 2006
What does alcohol is made of?
by PL is on vacation right now on August 31st, 2011
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How much do you have to smoke to be high like your first time. That was the best high I ever had
by fbgnewbreed on November 14th, 2011
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How long will THC stay in my system for a urine test?
by futureMarine on July 29th, 2011
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what causes more trouble...drinking or smoking pot?
by starry111 on October 2nd, 2011
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Do you think the main reason for people getting drunk, doing drugs and being wreckless is that they cant handle this life ?
by MORE GOOD on November 17th, 2011
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Good answer. I always thought people liked to get loaded, though, just because they like to get loaded.
by Jodie44 on October 2nd, 2006
So how do you explain the college students who LEGALLY drink until they pass out? They drank many times before, but they still regularly go out and binge drink. Perhaps they do it because they want to get drunk, since it is not banned and they still do it. Also, is that why people drink and drive? Because it is banned there is something special about it?
by Anonymous on August 3rd, 2007
College students grow up in a culture where drinking is against the rules. We learn all about alcohol while we are still at an age where we are not supposed to be drinking, and pick up some silly habits like binge drinking. Then all of a sudden we turn the age of majority (around me it's 19, but insert your own local age limit) and even though we can do it whenever we want, we still carry the negative drinking habits we learned as teenagers. Ok, and getting drunk is fun. There's that too. And people drink and drive because booze makes you do stupid things. I don't think I really need to explain that part.
by go_to_hellas on August 4th, 2007
"Ok, and getting drunk is fun." This is my point. It is not just about being rebellious. And this is true for all crimes. People don't rob banks because it is illegal, they do it because they want or need the money.
by Anonymous on August 4th, 2007
I don't think you understand my point? I never said people rob banks or drink and drive or kill people simply because those acts are against the law. I couldn't argue that. What I did say was that young people come to see alcohol and whatever else as desirable because they are constantly told they can't have it. They see their parents, their older siblings, people on TV drinking, having a good time, getting smashed and they think if they can do it, why can't I?
by go_to_hellas on August 5th, 2007
You said: "Because, quite simply, the act of banning something will only make people want it more." Robbing banks and drinking and driving is banned, so your argument supports the contention that people do these things simply because they are banned.
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But even if we only apply your argument to young people, how do you explain illegal drug use by teens? Many young people use drugs even though they don't see adults using drugs. So it would seem there is another reason why they use drugs. Perhaps the reason is they want to know what it feels like to get high?
by Anonymous on August 5th, 2007
Banning will not completely stop people getting a hold of it however there are far more alcoholics than drug addicts for the reason drugs are band and harder to get a hold of. If people could walk into a club or pub, walk up to the bar and ask for a line of coke then drugs would be as big a problem in society as alcohol is. So banning alcohol would certainly cut down the amount of alcohol abuse. the problem isn't that people aren't educated enough in it, the problem is that people know too much about it. They just don't care enough to stop. Everyone knows how bad smoking is but they still do it.
by Davieboy on May 26th, 2008
I agree with the first part of what you said, but take issue with the statement "they just don't care." Everyone today knows how bad smoking is for you, but most people still do it because they are addicted.
by Anonymous on May 28th, 2008
yup, here in the western parts a lot of people are alcoholic. in the eastern are a lot of people fucked up by drugs abuse. it is bith bad but we are to damn scared of the unknown
by Temporary Name on October 15th, 2009
man i have lived through so much stuff because of booz. Around 90% of all assaults, 50% to 60% of all murders, and over 50% of the rapes and sexual assaults on children are alcohol-related. most of that i have lived or seen happen. i sometimes wish that booz was completly illegal.
by bth360 on January 16th, 2010
I like your point but if this is all true that banning a drug will make it more desirable then why are we not all doing crack and meth?
by Steve_G8672 on March 27th, 2011
because it is not as easy to come by as alcohol or weed. And it is better to use shrooms anyway. They are not addictive, if you take them to often they stop working and it is a completly natural drug.
by Temporary Name on March 27th, 2011