If you are, what are your reasons for being opposed to drug use on a philosophical basis?

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In other words, I'm just asking what about drug use conflicts with your principles, your philosophy of life, or your morals. If you want to say that you disagree with drug use because it's illegal, please for a moment imagine what your reasons would be if it were not illegal. Thanks

JW, I'm not trying to promote drugs. I was just asking for opinions. But I can say that I know several lifetime drug users that have never committed any crimes and lead surprisingly productive lives - so your claim that every person who uses drugs is destroyed by them is not true.

Answer 1

i am against most drugs. because they make people angry and delusional, i.e. meth, heroine, cocaine...

i have no feelings about some drugs because if used at a proper dose, the effects aren't that bad on individuals, i.e. esctasy, acid...

i am pro certain drugs because no one has ever committed a crime, or hurt anyone in records, i.e. weed...

legal and illegal are relative terms, and i take them seriously based on my own beliefs...

Answer 2

I'm not opposed to drug use for legitimate medical purposes and I don't condemn anyone who uses drugs because it is a personal choice to fry every last molecule of your brain, damage your internal organs beyond salvation, etc. What I condemn, based on my MORAL stands, are the extreme consequences involved in the production, sale, distribution, and effects of the business. Just like any products of this nature, legal or illegal, the ramifications would still endanger the lives of innocent people. Drugs, bombs, whatever, it's all a dirty business intended to kill the human body, all at once or in tiny intervals.

Answer 3

Well I work in a detox/rehab facility and you would not believe how drugs (heroin, cocaine, alcohol) have wasted so many valuable lives. Let's not even talk about the deaths caused as a result of OD's, etc. I have seen tons of clients who had good paying jobs, beautiful houses, wonderful families and are now mooching off society and sometimes can barely tell you what day it is. There is a high crime rate among addicts. And don't please don't tell me that not everyone who uses becomes this type of person. Believe me, you are kidding yourself if you think that. So so far we have wrecked lives and innocent people hurt from various crimes committed against them. I think that's sufficient cause to being opposed to drug use.

Answer 4

It depends on how one is able to use drugs. If you are a normal person who can take them or leave them, then by all means use away. If you are one of the millions of people for whom drugs control all of there daily actions, those who once started cannot stop then I can't agree with drug use. Once you start to use because it was a good day, bad day, indifferent day, happy, sad, angry, confused, lonely, tired, any way that will allow you to suppress your feelings to a point where you don't have to live with them any longer, hoping that using will solve all your problems, only to have them resurface ten-fold once you are clean, then I see that as being an issue. But that is me.

Answer 5

Drug use begets a loss of control, in both short and long term scenarios. In the short term, a drug user is not in full control of their immediate actions. In the long term, a drug addict allows his or her life to be controled by availability of the drug.

Answer 6

Sometimes there just isn't any other way to balance out brain chemistry. But (most) times there is. Psychs need to spend too much one on one time with someone to bring them out of their dilema. That is why there is so much psych drugs being used today.

Answer 7

besides the fact that they create giant "Quarter" size holes in ur brain by using some of the drugs, no i don't have any problems with anyone else using it.

Answer 8

I guess I just don't see anything wrong with the lucidity of a natural mind.