one thing I never got: lollipops in night clubs?

[-aggie-]

You don't think alcohol is up there with heroin and meth?

It's the most harmful of all, besides cigarettes.

 

[RawBert]

According to the chart on page 4 of this study, heroin is the worst.
Alcohol isn't far behind - and it's legal.

The Toxicity of Recreational Drugs
Source: article in the May-June, 2006, issue of American Scientist

It really makes no sense that weed is illegal.

More info

 

[anjinha]

It's the most harmful of all, besides cigarettes.

Besides cigarettes? I'm not an advocate for smoking but although it is extremely unhealthy you can still smoke a lot and still lead a normal life, you can smoke a few cigarettes and safely drive a car, you can smoke and be productive at work, etc. Smoking is very unhealthy but you can kill yourself quicker by drinking too much.

 

[63dot]

Meth is the scariest drug I've ever heard of. It is not something to mess with. I've watched it literally destroy people in less than a year.

@Mord- my comment was simply that people should not have to take a drug to be open and loving, nothing more. It had nothing to do with anything else.

That is definitely scary then.

Working as a community health outreach (volunteer) social worker with HIV positive people addicted to heroin, and sharing needles, the drug and it's shared needle usage terrified us.

In the many cases I saw, I never saw anybody with both HIV and heroin addiction get destroyed in just one year. Usually, it was a prolonged issue and it usually took ten years from either picking up the heroin habit, or contracting HIV before anybody died from it.

Because heroin rarely kills instantly (unlike cocaine form the famous Len Bias/Celtics case), we had time to get many people off of heroin and onto HIV drug cocktails and some of the people we helped nearly 18 years ago are alive today.

The cocaine users I knew back then if they stayed with the drug, either died, were murdered, or overdosed. I get the feeling that meth is very similar to cocaine in that way. By the time meth got big, I was out of the social worker business, but we have had killings over meth territory, mostly Ns vs Ss.

 

[Mord]

You don't think alcohol is up there with heroin and meth?

Yes, hence why I don't drink.

So everyone who doesn't enjoy X can chalk it up to their X actually being meth. Mmkay.

meth, piperazines, PMA, god knows what, ecstasy is shockingly adulterated and faked, just look on a site like www.pillreports.com, the majority of "ecstasy" tablets contain no MDMA.