On the face of this planet besides me that has a ZERO tolerance for drugs?? Pot included!!
2007-01-19 10:43:28 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
On an objective (although certainly not scientifically accurate) level, my "source" is a link to an internet poll that says, among other quite interesting things, that only 72.7% of the 13,692 respondents had ever tried marijuana.
The same survey results show that just under 2/3 (66.2%) of respondents thought that marijuana should be legal (even though more than that had tried it, hehe). Therefore fully one out of every three respondents thought that what is commonly considered the mildest illegal drug should nonetheless be illegal. I think that is some indication of people's "tolerance" of pot on a societal, rather than personal, level.
My own experiences make me think there are a significant proportion of people who have zero tolerance for drugs in the sense that they have never tried any. I believe the number of people who are personally outraged by ANY use of drugs is probably MUCH MUCH smaller.
It is not JUST because I have never tried any drugs that I believe a significant number of people haven't either. Rather, it is because as I meet new people there is no small percentage that admit to never trying anything besides alcohol (unless you meant that too). I feel I don't pressure them to answer any particular way, as I broach the subject well into our acquaintance, with no judgment involved, and have had plenty of other acquaintances readily admit to their drug use, and explain their experiences readily when I show my curiosity.
Often I bring it up in a curious type fashion, a la "I always have kinda wondered what it would be like, but deep down never really had a desire to follow through".
On the other hand, if you mean "zero tolerance" means I would disassociate myself with anyone at ANY time who I find out has ever done, or ever does drugs, than (perhaps obviously) I don't have "zero tolerance". I had a girlfriend once who admitted to doing marijuana on occasion, and once smoked some in her back yard (invited me to go with her) while I was at her house, but I just stayed inside and watched TV. I didn't dump her because of it or anything. One great friend eventually tried shrooms (in a small-town cemetery of all places! Trippy!) and told me all about it afterwards, even though she hadn't taken any drugs prior to that, and she is ten years older than me (in her 40s). She certainly still is a great friend nonetheless. So I think the number of people who are morally outraged by anyone's use of drugs, including marijuana, is a LOT lower than the number who have simply not tried anything.
I certainly have some strong opinions as to why I am not outraged by all drug usage despite having NO personal desire to try any. I suspect my libertarian attitudes are shared by many, but I will not go into them here.
By the way, there were a lot of other results when I came googled "never tried any drugs results survey", but this was the top one and seemed pretty directly relevant to your question. Perhaps those other results (and obviously other better searches) might be much more responsive to your question.
2007-01-19 18:53:36 · answer #1 · answered by Don Nomuch 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i'm 15, and my mothers and fathers enable me have one yet freak out if I say the littlest concern about chatting with human beings... there are not any further as many pedophiles interior the international as mothers and fathers seem to imagine, do in basic terms what I did even as i became thirteen, make the fb account and be confident to bathe up your surfing heritage each so often
2016-10-15 11:25:09 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No Some Drugs are good, such as cold medicines, allergy, and others. Not all Drugs are bad.
Maybe first you should say what type of drugs you are talking about.
2007-01-19 10:55:45 · answer #3 · answered by ArchAngel Raziel 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't think you're alone, but i'm not with you. I think if people must be stupid then they must. I have no problem with them frying their brains, i just don't want to be around them while they are cooking them.
2007-01-19 11:00:09 · answer #4 · answered by Skanky McSkankypants 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Im sure there are.
I however am not one of those adults.
2007-01-19 10:51:41 · answer #5 · answered by Perplexed 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No, I think you're it..
2007-01-19 10:50:59 · answer #6 · answered by ? 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
no
2007-01-19 10:50:33 · answer #7 · answered by Violation Notice: Semper Paratus 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋