Originally posted by friskk
I trust alot of you may be responsible in their drug use but a hell of a lot of people are not. Everyday we read and see people who have asked their kids to sell or pickup drugs for them. How the hell can this be acceptable? It's not and those people should be fuckin locked up!!
right...but what about the people who *are* responsible? are you somehow trying to argue that just because there are a lot irresponsible drug users out there that even the *responsible* ones should entirely stop their drug use when they have children too? fuck, the example about the kids selling or picking up drugs is a bad one -obviously- but like you said, there are plenty of responsible drug takers around...fuck, check out most of this site!
All of you are talking about your kids experiencing something which you chose to do. No one forced you to take drugs and it was a concious decision you made to go out and explore what drugs can offer you. Don't you see, that by showing your children that it is ok to take drugs you are also teaching them that they could take drugs aswell.
duh. are you reading these posts? like i said, i will a) let my children decide (at the right age, no earlier than eighteen though, i would *hope*
) if they want to take drugs and b) encourage them to educate themselves about whatever they want to ingest. my drug use, thus far, has been full of amazing, eye-opening, enjoyable experiences, and if my children want to pursue similar experiences then i will fully encourage them to do so.
just because *you* have the attitude, apparently, that "drugs are bad, mmkay," doesn't mean the rest of us share the same point of view? i think most drugs -to a person with a stable mind (and when i have children i hope to bring them up in a stable environment, and to nurture their intelligence and maturity)- are a positive thing, and see no reason as to why they should be denied from such a person.
Not everyone is suitable to take drugs and the problem is that alot of people who are not suitable do take them.
true - this is why some people should, and some people should not be afforded the opportunity. if i don't feel like my children are mature enough to be doing so, i will not encourage it. sure, they might still do it (i can't *control* them), but at least they'll be educated, and they might even -hopefully- have enough respect for me so as to wait until they realise that they have matured. and this isn't (despite what most people think) beyond all teenagers - i didn't do any drug stronger than alcohol until i was eighteen, because i didn't think i was mature, or educated, enough to cope with them before that.
Openly taking drugs in front of your children also indirectly shows them that the law should not be adhered to.
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Kids must be taught that the law is important and that it is there for a valid reason. Blatant disregard of the law, especially by parents is really irresponsible.
what's this "must" bullshit? that's not an opinion - you're trying to somehow pass that off as fact. in MY OPINION, much of the laws which we live by are total bullshit. i do not endorse or government, and i do not endorse many of the laws that were developed by previous governments - obviously this needs to be looked at in regards to each specific matter, but at the very least i would hope to raise my children to question authority - just because someone in charge says it's correct doesn't neccessarily make it so.
If children are exposed to drugs, does that also mean you may allow them to experience them? As we still do not know how alot of drugs really work (for example G)
well, it seems pretty damn certain that ghb is pretty much non-toxic (for both the brain and the liver). i'm sure p_d will pull me up if i'm wrong, but all that i've read indicates this. regardless, this is where education comes in. i *know* that drugs such as meth and mdma are causing damage to my brain (hopefully not too much
), but i make an educated and informed decision to take them anyway - as long as i keep my use minimal, i feel that the positives outweigh the negatives. if i have children, they will grow up educated and informed also, and if they decide that the potential risks are too great, then that's fine. if they think otherwise, then that's fine too - at least they will *know* what they're getting into.
sorry, friskk, that i've taken your particular post as an example, it just got to me a little. as long as you can acknowledge that much of what you said is *only just opinion* - and that not everyone is going to think the same way - you have no need to take it personally