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I love that--very 'Buddhist' in its approach. Karma in the Catholic way?

Yes, I do agree with you: all in moderation and know your limits. Great if you can do that with drugs. But then what about the kids who have died at these raves with ecstasy? I'm all for medicinal marijuana. I just don't like young kids--when their brains haven't developed--to use it. My...

But, Spades, you don't know you are genetically predisposed until you get the psychosis or schizophrenia. Most of it was from dope. Some had hardly used it and developed mental illness. Some had used it more. None of their parents had schizophrenia or psychosis. I agree: some people can...

I worked in a psych ward for five years. No, I don't 'spurt'; it's called anecdotal evidence. I have seen too may beautiful, young, strong and intelligent men develop a mental illness after drug use. No, they didn't have a pre-existing condition; they may have had a genetic predisposition...

The thread is asking people's opinions on whether a mother and son who do a lot of drugs are happy. Many have given their opinion, as did I. I said that they were not happy. You call that a gross generalisation; I call it an opinion. 'People who do drugs'--by that I meant addicted--'are...

Your friends are an abberation. Perhaps you should go into a psych ward and see what dope does to other young men.

Perhaps you and I have a different definition of 'happiness'. Yes, I now get how you have come to define the term 'freedom'. Drug addict: someone who has an overwhelming desire and compulsion take whatever drug/alchohol for its effect. Someone whose ability to function is impaired by...

They don't call it 'dope' for nothing--it's because people end up being dopes. Or they are 'chilled' until they develop psychosis.

But drug addicts are not. And I bet that these two people are now drug addicts--the mother sounds like she is anyway.

Maybe plenty of happy people do drugs, but drug addicts are not happy people--that is what I meant by 'do drugs'. And alcoholics are not happy people

Spades, it's great you have pulled yourself out and have made a better life for yourself. But it's not BS. You have contradicted yourself. First, you insist they are happy. Then you say that you 'learnt some new skills along the way' and that you now 'appreciate freedom!'. So you say you were...

They are not happy; they are resigned. People who do drugs are not happy. They know that there is a better life, but wouldn't know how to start getting there, either because noone every taught them or they think they don't deserve it. They don't know any better and have accepted their lot in...