Kate – doesn’t understand why people use ‘illegal drugs’
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as a cannabis user I have no idea why people insist on dissolving their CB receptors with alcohol.
any parent that offers their child alcohol needs to learn the damage they are causing through alcohol.
As a grandparent myself i would rather my future generations used cannabis over alcohol.
I know lets ask frank about the harms..
oh wait Frank don’t know about Cannabinoid receptors and how they are damaged and destroyed by alcohol and how this in teenagers culls massive amounts of new connections as it burns away their personality eroded behavioural patterns and leads to all forms of mental illness.
I really can’t understand why people would want to use Alcohol.
She seems like-able and intelligent, as well as making some decent points. I wish someone could explain to her that a lot of the risks that she associates with illegal drugs (impurities/”not knowing what they do to you”) could be alleviated by control and regulation, and that the government are also not forthcoming with permission to test the toxicity of currently controlled drugs.
James Jackson
Beckley Foundation
Beckley Foundation have no excuse, this woman knows nothing about the subject so lets not adopt her drivel about ‘illegal drugs’ – it’s about time the Beckley Foundation stopped this prohibitionist language model and got it right. There are no legal and no illegal drugs, law controls persons, not drugs!
Unless you were referring to what she said, in which case i let you off!
I like these candid interviews and I’m glad that the videos often show real people talking about what they know…or, as in this lady’s case, what they don’t know.
I imagine she had a fairly stable upbringing and hasn’t experienced the grinding hell of life on poverty row. Not that poverty immediately leads to addiction but there is certainly enough evidence to show that people resort to hard drugs as a response to their environmental surroundings.
As much as I disagree with her on a number of points, I found the interview fascinating, and actually quite entertaining (in a good way!).
It’s interesting to see how others view this issue, and how to communicate to them.
I do agree that the illegal aspects compromise the quality and safety of substance use. Ironically, I think many people from complications of irresponsible use, Perhaps more than 1 in a million that will die that night from alcohol.