Why are drugs seen as all bad?

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Idk I go through phases of understanding why drugs are "bad" and then I switch to the other extreme.

I had a good friend who happened to be a heroin addict and he used to always tell me "everything in moderation". I tend to try and see it from this point of view if I can.

I also think that even if drugs were fully legalised then people would still look down their noses at you if you took them.

It's also a class thing. In the UK you're judged for drinking alcohol every day if you're working class but if you're middle class and you have a drink every day then it's perfectly fine.

You should just do what you do ultimately.

Attendees at British music festival Glastonbury were so loaded on drugs that their pee may have poisoned the local water supply

There can be many terrible consequences to ingesting illegal drugs—death, ruined health, ruined families, and oh yeah also killing local aquatic wildlife:

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Public urination at Glastonbury Festival led to illegal drugs entering a river running through the famous Somerset site in southwestern England, potentially harming wildlife, according to a new study.

Researchers at Bangor University in Walesdiscovered high levels of cocaine and MDMA in the Whitelake River, which runs through Worthy Farm, where the hugely-popular music festival is usually held with more than 200,000 attendees.

The study found MDMA concentrations quadrupled the week after the2019 festival, while cocaine concentrations reached levels previously shown to affect the life cycle of European eels -- which are present in the river and are critically endangered.

You can almost picture it: Strung-out concertgoers just tapping it wherever they want, all weekend long, and suddenly they begin to hear some blood-curdling caterwauling from the nearby Whitelake River. Someone drunkenly asks: "What's that sound?"



If the drugs haven't yet killed all the eels, hopefully at least they're having a good time.

While it is true that thinking of things in black and white terms is oversimplifying the issue, as others have said, it most definitely stems from how harmful drugs can be on people's bodies, as well as their propensity to derail lives. Obviously the OP is referring to illicit drugs, as there are plenty of more licit varieties that doctors may prescribe, or which can be easily acquired at any grocery store. Of course, another thing that the illicit type have working against them is there's no doctor prescribing them period, let alone something like dosage. Drugs are risky.

Of course, we're all judge, jury and executioner over what we choose to put into our own bodies. Obviously people do drugs because of how they make them feel. I have a hard time understanding what the upside of meth is, but there are others that kind of make sense if you're wanting to have a good time (at least in the short term). A lot of drugs have long-term consequences, mind you, and that is concerning.

Another reason not to use drugs:

https://www.yahoo.com/news/pick-truck-d ... 00739.html

I say legalize everything. The illegality of drugs causes far more problems than it solves.

Just on this point; I've been using cbd oil lately. I have been diagnosed with a spinal cord injury and I have suffered quite a lot of pain for quite a while. No painkillers will touch this pain so I thought I would go My own way.

I don't wanna smoke week with thc because it doesn't suit my brain so I went for the cbd. This is legal in my corner of the world but you can't get it on script and it is still controversial and looked down upon by certain people.

I've spoken to both my physiotherapist and my doctor and told them both about me using this drug and both of them haven't asked me how it is for me nor have they bothered to offer me an alternative on prescription.

So I'm thinking that even though this drug is looked down upon by some people it isn't looked at as a bad thing by medical professionals.