Thread: Your Nation's worst Drug problem(s)

National center for health, to CDC show that
Prescription Drug deaths have risen every year since Y2K.
Pills from street to pharmaceutical has been an issue in the states for decades.
Crack use in America peaked early 1980-1995 with incarceration as the best resolution.


Now Heroine has risen in Small towns to suburbs. Politicians are requesting tax payer dollars to fund rehabilitation, not incarceration.

Except
Acording to the federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, heroin users skyrocketed from about 373,000 in 2007 to 669,000 in 2012, and the number of those with heroin "dependence or abuse" more than doubled from 2002 to 2012, jumping from about 214,000 to 467,000. A recent report commissioned by the Office of National Drug Control Policy and prepared by the Rand Corp. says that in 2010 there were closer to 1.5 million "chronic heroin users" in the U.S.

Is there drug use, overdose or death rampant in your city, state, country?
Has your position changed on dealing with illicit drug use?

Tobacco, sugar, alcohol, and saturated fats kill more than all illegal and abused drugs combined.

Gotta be alcohol where I am from, (erdington, birmingham)

Having said that though the amount of cocaine in people shove up their nostrils is quite frightening, definitely more people on that than 10 years ago.

Cigarettes and alcohol are pretty deadly and even deadlier in combination. They are cheap and readily available on any street corner. In a way I am glad that those are the only real menaces as I would hate to see junkies and speed freaks all over the place. People are bad enough on the coffee!

In prisons it is the new legal highs which they are licking up in the letters.

Prescriptions, Heroin, and I would venture to guess Methamphetamine would be 3rd.


Illegal drugs that are NOT an issue Marijuana and Moonshine top the list

I do understand why people do drugs, we live in a jail, people who dont get any futher stays in the same rented apartment, working to pay their loans, they cant go anywhere, stuck with it, do drugs to escape the scene. i dont blame them i would too if i was in that situation.

This is my two hippies i really look up to. They call us misfits, they later became addicted of heroin, broke into cars and took the stereo and sold, they had to steal 10 car stereos to earn a days trip on heroin, rough life. Swedish tv followed them on the streets and made a documentary about these two, they are 17 year olds in this clip. one died in OD, they other one is still making music.

https://youtu.be/XG9wJ7XVhhQ?t=18


https://youtu.be/6uCBZIUuQbQ?t=828

https://youtu.be/Pe8aAhTUqVg?t=1780

The Ripple man. The Ripple. Locally we have drive thru beer and daiquiri shops on the same corners as Taco Bell. Alcohol is everywhere. Seems Heroin is on the up also with more arrests. Herb is around. I heard.

When I was 20 something and asked why smoke marijuana, your problems don't go away.

My response was simple, I liked getting high.

Last time I had any weed was over 12 months ago, I've never been a fan of the stuff and only had a bit because my mate had some.

I've probably had it about 4 or 5 times in the last 10 years...If I could walk into the co-op and buy some then I'm pretty sure I would.

That's just me though, I'm a bit of a idiot

Originally Posted by Batman

Last time I had any weed was over 12 months ago, I've never been a fan of the stuff and only had a bit because my mate had some.

I've probably had it about 4 or 5 times in the last 10 years...If I could walk into the co-op and buy some then I'm pretty sure I would.

That's just me though, I'm a bit of a idiot

To each their own.

I think that it just doesn't make financial sense to prohibit marijuana...look at the money spent and lives lost/ruined in the War on Drugs vs how much the government could rake in on taxes in having it legalized....Washington, Colorado, Oregon, they are extremely well off in terms of state taxes now

The one thing that is imo bad about marijuana is the use of blunt wraps. Good green mother earth...then many wrap in toxic tobacco wraps.

I think this or next generation will inherit cancer.
I am guilty of it...but i foolishly blamed the lack of good weed making it to Wisconsin. Ganga Green I had in Atlanta. .one hit..whew!!! Had to back up off it.


Now they got these fruity flavors ...just killing the taste of good green. In just paper. .. You dont have to light it...just a gentle pull ....mmmmm 'dis dat shat!!! Fire it up!
Grape blunt cherry blunt watermelon..what next? Chicken and dressing blunt? Get high and satisfy your munchies all in one hit I guess...

I worked for many years with addicts. People start for different reasons but for some it becomes an all encompassing thing effecting all aspects of life ah I'll talk on it more later I'm tired

I dont mind admitting I was and still am afraid to try the hard stuff. Cocaine, Heroine. Never seen acid, LSD and those photos of meth mouth users? Damn ...