Not sure if you think the ban is good or not but as a non smoker i definitely am thankful for it, it was a bad thing to smoke and still is and only for the industry being so powerful and the level of smokers widespread it would have a case for being banned too.
If smoking has a case to be banned, then so does alcohol, coffee, cars, air-con etc ... As compliant as we generally are, the merest suggestion of banning smoking outright would cause mayhem. Of course the killjoys in ASH would love to tell other people that smoking anywhere but on a desert island with no other living organism is illegal, but then I don't know anyone who takes ASH seriously anyway.
If spamspamspam were made legal then it would be regulated and the level of a 'hit' would probably be diminished so I think users would still opt for the stronger stuff. Moonshine, poitin etc are illegal but drinkers by and large don't look for it but plenty of people I know that do or have smoked spamspamspam quickly decide that they want to try something stronger (not necessarily a different drug but a stronger version of the one their using). There are social smokers of course and enjoy it like having a drink but I don't the two can be compared.
This makes no sense...as alcohol is regulated, there are numerous types of Vodka for example. some are stronger than others but the middle of the road 35-40%abv stuff is the biggest seller. Smirnoff sells extremely well, but Grey Goose doesn't even though it may be much nicer as it's also much more expensive. No-one that I know drinks poteen (at 70-80%abv, or whatever it is), even though they may partake in other illegal activities like smoke dope or take ecstacy. Unregulated spamspamspam in Amsterdam, for example is unheard of, AFAIK, because why bother, if you can go somewhere and buy a consistent product legally ?
ok I shouldn't have said promote but to again conclude that it is a very safe drug could be construed as misleading, how do you tell if it is safe without the use of a lab?
Well I can't but studies of recovering addicts have shown that the damage caused by heroin itself (as opposed to the cutting agents, physical damage due to injecting etc..) is reversible with little permanent damage. Addiction and dependency, as well as the risk in taking a synthetic street drug which can 1% or 10% pure, with no way of knowing, leading to overdose as well as the risk of it being adulterated with any manner of things, is where the danger lies. A BBC documentary last year(about Heroin users and ex dealers, stereotypical 'junkies' and functional addicts, who held down day jobs) reported this, which is where I remember it from.
They are not all bad of course but there aren't too many positive images that spring to mind from the activities of drug users whilst high.
Well the fit of the giggles or just taking complete and utter tosh about how 'deep' the latest Britney Spears song is, are about the worst effects of someone I've ever seen stoned. Sad to report then, that we have all seen much, much worse on a quiet night in any town outside a bar at 11pm.
If there were a nationwide poll tomorrow which would change the law based on its results, asking "Should spamspamspam Be Legalised?", it would undoubtably be a 'No'. I suspect the result would be principally based on the votes of people who never smoked it, or 'knowingly' knew anyone who smoked it, and would probably, if asked, cite the 'gateway drug' response. Most people have little clue or care about the realities or differences between it and Class A drugs like Heroin and Cocaine, but will always remember Katie French and forget about the 3 lads who died in Wexford in the same week. Tabloid fodder, and boy, would the red-tops love it !