Australia's drug shame revealed

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They like to use analogies that 'simple' people can understand.

And on that note how the hell can they have ANY idea of just how many plants there are? Sounds like they pulled 5000ha outta their ass cos it sounded big...i dunno, its probably 10 times that in reality, not including hydroponic setups.
 
yeah, as is pointed out - i have noticed from living in australia for 12 years that it does have one of the highest rates of drug abuse i have seen in the world, but i have never understood this since the prices of drugs in australia are at least 2-3 x higher than anywhere else in the world, even when the exchange rate is taken into account...
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It seems that most ppl agree that Australia has a very high rate of drug use but that it is fairly well managed and sustainable. Perhaps this is because of the high price of drugs. Perhaps the average user can't really afford to abuse their drugs and therefore are forced to take them "responcibly"...

Nice Tits
 
I think it just means Australia knows how to have a good time !
 
sounds like a journo trying to meet his deadline.

Formula - writing up a story from a report probably published months ago and fill it with a number of silly statistical references and beat up drugs.

Sometimes i think bluelight gives far too much credance to these stories. It was such a non-event that other mainstream outlets didn't even bother picking it up...I didn't hear or read about this in other outlet (mainstream or otherwise)

Has anyone in Aus read or seen any other outlet talk about this DEA report?
 
Nice Tits said:
It seems that most ppl agree that Australia has a very high rate of drug use but that it is fairly well managed and sustainable. Perhaps this is because of the high price of drugs. Perhaps the average user can't really afford to abuse their drugs and therefore are forced to take them "responcibly"...

Nice Tits
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I think this is true. I mean maybe there is a shitload of drugs coming into Australia, just too many users an therefore prices are high an keep people an thier habits in check.
 
Australians all let us rejoice,
For we are young and free;
We've golden shrooms and loads of pills,
And blissful L S D;
Our land abounds in Nature's gifts
Of T and H and C,
In history's page, let every stage
Advance Australia fair!
In joyful strains then let us sing,
"Advance Australia fair!"

Beneath our radiant empathogens,
We'll toil with hearts and hands;
To make this chemical wealth of ours
Renowned of all the lands;
For those who've come across the seas
We've boundless hits to share;
With courage let us all combine
To advance Australia fair.
In joyful strains then let us sing,
"Advance Australia fair!"

This thread makes me homesick.
 
chugs said:
Sometimes i think bluelight gives far too much credance to these stories. It was such a non-event that other mainstream outlets didn't even bother picking it up...I didn't hear or read about this in other outlet (mainstream or otherwise)

Has anyone in Aus read or seen any other outlet talk about this DEA report?
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I'm sure this was reported on in a fair number of Australian media outlets, in fact the first I remember hearing about it was on the radio a couple weeks ago.

Rest assured that this did make news in Australia and received a fair deal of publicity in the country's media, even though similar reports over the last 12/24 months have somewhat softened the effect that this latest report will have on the general public.
 
Why should we be ashamed of using these drugs? I'm not? It's the Australian government that should be ashamed. It allows the distribution of tobacco one of the worst recreational drugs. It doesn't make sense to make drugs illegal and then expose users to a higher risk of danger, because there's no guarantee of what they are purchasing. Personally if we really are about democracy and a free market, then why can't I go to my chemist and buy the drugs that I want, with the knowledge that I'm getting the real deal and not just shit off the street. The war on drugs is just another means to control and criminalise something that the "greater population" finds distasteful and/or immoral, much like people once (and some still do to a certain degree) found homosexuality distasteful and immoral. Does the report also include the huge numbers of anti-depressant pill poppers in the country who don't use illicit substances?
 
when will they understand....

Why does the government get to decide who is a drug abuser or what is a illegal drug?some what of a contradiction is that canberra the only place in australia that alows growing weed is where the prime minister is situated. alcahol is a drug but its socially accepted. some might say your more likely to be hurt or hurt others on alcahol then marijuana or other depressants. when will the government understand personal choice of socially accepted substances and that they are fighting a war on drugs???? there really trying to take away millions of people enjoyment
 
south australia has a fairly accessible drug scene. There's nothing you can't get and it's really not hard and not more than an hours work to find it even if you don't know anyone here.

Having said that I know a lot of people who have, not fucked up, but "postponed" their lives (and spent thousands) having an affair with drugs. Having said that, nearly every single one has resumed their lives almost exactly where they left off a few years down the track--though usually with a few less friends.

I don't blame the drugs for society's drug problems, I blame society.

I don't think drugs are bad--I think there are many benefits when used in moderation. Everyone I know starts "in moderation". The problem is that they quickly become ostracized from their "normal" friends who have been brainwashed against drugs and against any person who takes drugs. They soon find themselves in the sole company of people who take drugs and eventually have little better to do than to take drugs. I think the segregation part of the drug scene, stemming from society's intolerance of drug users, leads to many of the problems we see today.

Everyone I know who took drugs had a bad patch with them. Almost all of them are over it now and almost all of them are a more well rounded people because of drugs. If anything it has helped them later on all of socially, psychologically, self-critically, emotionally, morally & and in many other areas that I won't even try to list here.

OOPS went off on a rant there.... I'd better get back on topic and end it....

When has the US ever not stuck it's nose in to other people's business? ;)
 
Well i personally am very proud to be an Australian haha.

Not very constructive and i know being the largest abusers of drugs prob. isnt the best thing but i like the sound of being part of a nation that accepts drugs so readily. Lets just start to influence the politicians also now...
 
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