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Statistics: Posted by Epykat — 16 Sep 2004, 17:20
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I get kids younger than me trying to sell drugs to me ...does any one else think this is at all wrong...i also know sum people who take drugs with their parents and thier parents buy it for them
Statistics: Posted by Check-out_Chick — 16 Sep 2004, 13:36
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Due to the Internet and more information being widely available, today's generation are better informed of the realities of drugs - in fact I've learnt a few things myself recently - and it seems to me they are far in advance of the Government in this! As in all things, governments tend to downplay the intelligence of the electorate and I believe people, on a whole, would be better off making their own informed choices on this.
Statistics: Posted by bearcub — 10 Sep 2004, 21:38
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Statistics: Posted by Epykat — 10 Sep 2004, 19:05
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Ive not read the Ben Elton Book but I agree with the point of view.
Statistics: Posted by Porty — 10 Sep 2004, 12:25
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Anyone who knows anything about drugs knows that it is a nonsense to suggest that smoking dope inevitably leads to taking more dangerous drugs. However, I know from personal experience that because cannabis is illegal you have to use a dealer to buy it. And of course your friendly local dealer often has other goodies to tempt you with. I had great times with drugs and I had terrible times too. In the end I agree, it's best to be as open and honest as possible and hope that your kids are smart enough to make the right decisions, whatever they may be.
Statistics: Posted by Guest — 09 Sep 2004, 23:55
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Openness is generally the favoured approach in our family, but like you I know others where that's worked and others where it hasn't. Openness was not a policy in other half's family; other half never touched recreational drugs aside from alcohol, but her brother did. Nor was it a policy in my family; I haven't done it (but not for any moral reasons, just personal ones) but one or two brothers have. Having said that, as one of the E generation, there are very few friends who haven't. I still feel that Mr M is right though and openness and information are the best things we can give.
I recently had some training on drugs (no, not on drugs) and we did an exercise called the circle of harmfulness where we had a list of eight, or maybe ten, drugs, and we had to divide a circle up into sections according to which we thought were the most harmful. Everybody put heroin down as the worst thing. Most people put cigarettes and alcohol as the least damaging. Since that is the opposite, at least physiologically speaking, of the truth, maybe we all need much more education. Alcohol does the most damage to your body and arguably has the biggest social and economic consequences...yet everyone thinks it's ok because it's legal. And actually a lot of the kids know better than we do about this stuff.
Statistics: Posted by bellybabe — 09 Sep 2004, 13:49
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