http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-23453028
'Dammit, we're hip, we not us too?'
I'd be very dubious of those statistics (as I am with most), but food for thought. My only picture of crystal meth comes from films and the odd celeb
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| Author: | pcernie [ Tue Aug 06, 2013 1:12 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Why doesn't the UK have a crystal meth problem? |
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-23453028 'Dammit, we're hip, we not us too?' I'd be very dubious of those statistics (as I am with most), but food for thought. My only picture of crystal meth comes from films and the odd celeb
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| Author: | Amnesia10 [ Tue Aug 06, 2013 2:34 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Why doesn't the UK have a crystal meth problem? |
I think the prevalence of cannabis is enough to stop most people. If you can get high with little risk such as from cannabis why progress to anything stronger. Most cannabis users never go on to anything hard no matter what governments say about it being a gateway drug. The real gateway drug is tobacco but that is legal so the cannot admit that. If they legalise cannabis and tax it like Uruguay then there would be little or no interaction with dealers selling harder drugs. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk. |
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| Author: | bobbdobbs [ Tue Aug 06, 2013 3:33 pm ] | |||||||||
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| Author: | Amnesia10 [ Tue Aug 06, 2013 3:56 pm ] | ||||||||||||||||||
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If you don't smoke then you don't smoke cannabis. Every cannabis user I know also smokes. Very few have gone on to harder drugs. I was not saying that pipes or hookahs are involved. Also the vast majority of smokers do not progress on to drugs. Though every addict I know has tobacco in their past, even if heroin kills them. Just because someone smokes does not mean that they will try drugs. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk. |
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| Author: | saspro [ Tue Aug 06, 2013 4:10 pm ] | |||||||||
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I had plenty of mates who didn't smoke cigs but smoked other things. |
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| Author: | Amnesia10 [ Tue Aug 06, 2013 4:25 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Why doesn't the UK have a crystal meth problem? |
It is not the gateway drug for everyone. In my case if I smoked I would have smoked cannabis as lots of my friends did. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk. |
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| Author: | jonbwfc [ Tue Aug 06, 2013 5:11 pm ] | |||||||||
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That's a different thing though. Being a non-smoker might reduce the chances of you smoking weed but that's not the same as saying being a smoker makes you more likely to. The two statements are not logically equivalent. |
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| Author: | ProfessorF [ Tue Aug 06, 2013 5:23 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Why doesn't the UK have a crystal meth problem? |
Thank god we don't have a crystal meth problem. I'd like to think it's because we're a smart cool country that like our recreational chemistry slightly safer. |
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| Author: | cloaked_wolf [ Tue Aug 06, 2013 5:29 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Why doesn't the UK have a crystal meth problem? |
I suspect most people will have smoked tobacco before trying cannabis. It's far easier to start with a legal drug eg alcohol, tobacco, caffeine. |
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| Author: | Amnesia10 [ Tue Aug 06, 2013 11:04 pm ] | |||||||||
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That was why I described it as the real gateway drug. Ecstasy and acid are clearly not linked but if you mix with a certain crowd you are more likely to come across drugs. |
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