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Originally Posted by Hailto
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While i agree that marijuana should be legal, theres no way nicotine is as addictive as heroin when taken as a whole. It might be more addictive on a basic chemical level if you don't consider the high associated with it, which is another factor leading to addiction. When i smoke a cigarette i don't feel like im having a full body orgasm for 3 hours.
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I still have my textbook from the drug class.
It's on page 83 (Uppers, Downers, All Arounders: Physical and Mental effects of Psychoactive Drugs. C 2007.) It says:
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The drugs that push the hardest and the quickest toward addiction are, in order from the fastest to slowest:
smoking tobacco
smoking crack cocaine
smoking or injecting heroin
injecting methamphetamine
snorting cocaine
ingesting opioid painkillers
ingesting any amphetamine
ingesting sedative hypnotics
drinking alcohol
smoking marijuana
ingesting PCP
ingesting caffeine
ingesting MDMA (ecstasy)
ingesting LSD
ingesting peyote
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The same textbook obviously does not support legalizing Marijuana or any of hte other drugs and in fact takes a hardline stance against all drugs and addictions. I don't agree with it on that. I think we'll never eliminate drugs or addictions. And I think it's better to keep them out in the open then in the shadows.
The costs of addictive drugs to society is high. There's no doubt that there's negative health impacts. But there's negative health impacts to driving too. You can't live without dying either. I'm not saying this to diminish the harm that addiction does to people, but there're things about people that we're not ever going to change. Best we can do is compromise and to instill in people responsibility and to teach our children to be discerning.