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jdog2050

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laogaiguk

Joined: 06 Dec 2005 Location: somewhere in Korea
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Posted: Fri Mar 23, 2007 10:52 pm Post subject: Re: Alcohol and Tobacco listed as worse than E and weed in s |
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One, I'm about as surprised as I was when the sun came up today. But I don't understand your comment. Only Korea? |
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4 months left

Joined: 07 Feb 2003
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Posted: Fri Mar 23, 2007 11:45 pm Post subject: Re: Alcohol and Tobacco listed as worse than E and weed in s |
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laogaiguk wrote: |
One, I'm about as surprised as I was when the sun came up today. But I don't understand your comment. Only Korea? |
Maybe because in Korea they can pull you off the street for a urine test and throw you in jail if you smoked on vacation in Thailand but in some more sane countries a cop would just tell you to put out that joint you are smoking. What about the Korean dude who recently wrote on his blog about smoking in Amsterdam and the Korean police questioned him? I think the OP was referring to the close mindedness of society here, and yes there are other countries that are as well. |
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Yesterday

Joined: 15 Aug 2003 Location: Land of the Morning DongChim (Kancho)
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Posted: Fri Mar 23, 2007 11:46 pm Post subject: |
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Most people ALREADY know that alcohol and tobacco are worse than marijuana or speed.......
WHY POST IT ON DAVES ESL CAFE - "for people living and working in korea".......
you waste our time... reading your shit posts.......
go post it where it belongs........ |
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chamisul

Joined: 04 Jan 2007
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Posted: Fri Mar 23, 2007 11:47 pm Post subject: |
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Two points to ponder.
Careful what you wish for:
""The rankings also suggest the need for better regulation of the more harmful drugs that are currently legal, i.e. tobacco and alcohol,"
Lies, damned lies, and statistics:
"Tobacco causes 40 percent of all hospital illnesses, while alcohol is blamed for more than half of all visits to hospital emergency rooms."
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4 months left

Joined: 07 Feb 2003
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Posted: Fri Mar 23, 2007 11:48 pm Post subject: |
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Yesterday wrote: |
Most people ALREADY know that alcohol and tobacco are worse than marijuana or speed.......
WHY POST IT ON DAVES ESL CAFE - "for people living and working in korea".......
you waste our time... reading your *beep* posts.......
go post it where it belongs........ |
Most people??? On this board??? Maybe you are smoking some now, I'm jealous!!  |
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hubba bubba
Joined: 24 Oct 2006
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Posted: Sat Mar 24, 2007 12:17 am Post subject: |
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edited for being a dumbass who can't read. |
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Sister Ray
Joined: 25 Mar 2006 Location: Fukuoka
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Posted: Sat Mar 24, 2007 12:23 am Post subject: |
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Yesterday wrote: |
Most people ALREADY know that alcohol and tobacco are worse than marijuana or speed.......
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I'm all for legalising narcotics. But, speed can be pretty nasty. Not the best drug to mention when pitching the decriminalisation argument. |
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Yesterday

Joined: 15 Aug 2003 Location: Land of the Morning DongChim (Kancho)
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Posted: Sat Mar 24, 2007 12:23 am Post subject: |
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4 months left wrote: |
Yesterday wrote: |
Most people ALREADY know that alcohol and tobacco are worse than marijuana or speed.......
WHY POST IT ON DAVES ESL CAFE - "for people living and working in korea".......
you waste our time... reading your *beep* posts.......
go post it where it belongs........ |
Most people??? On this board??? Maybe you are smoking some now, I'm jealous!!  |
Yeah - I am smoking some right now - (some tobacco) - and drinking some wine...
I know its worse than marijuana and ecstasy - but its like the OP only found out "yesterday" - (I guess the OP is smoking some right now) -
however I assumed most people knew it already...
I guess the OP is american (ignorrant)....... |
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4 months left

Joined: 07 Feb 2003
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Posted: Sat Mar 24, 2007 12:30 am Post subject: |
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Yesterday wrote: |
Yeah - I am smoking some right now - (some tobacco) - and drinking some wine...
I know its worse than marijuana and ecstasy - but its like the OP only found out "yesterday" - (I guess the OP is smoking some right now) -
however I assumed most people knew it already.... |
Don't know about that, previous weed discussions on here have seen a lot of people thinking it was the work of the devil- guess that's why they like Korea so much. Just wait until they all get home from church and start raging about the evils of sweeeeeeet sweet ghanja! |
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Ginormousaurus

Joined: 27 Jul 2006 Location: 700 Ft. Pulpit
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Posted: Sat Mar 24, 2007 12:35 am Post subject: |
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Yesterday wrote: |
Most people ALREADY know that alcohol and tobacco are worse than marijuana or speed.......
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Anybody who has done speed or some any of it's forms knows that it is not in the same league as ganja. Just as anybody who has smoked a little dope knows it's not in the same league as alcohol. |
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SPINOZA
Joined: 10 Jun 2005 Location: $eoul
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Posted: Sat Mar 24, 2007 1:54 am Post subject: |
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Sister Ray wrote: |
Yesterday wrote: |
Most people ALREADY know that alcohol and tobacco are worse than marijuana or speed.......
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I'm all for legalising narcotics. But, speed can be pretty nasty. Not the best drug to mention when pitching the decriminalisation argument. |
Narcotics are drugs that alleviate physical pain, suppress coughing, induce constipation, induce anesthesia and produce tolerance and addiction. Natural narcotics are derived from the Opium poppy and synthetic narcotics are made to act like the constituents of Opium (thebaine, morphine, codeine).
In other words, marijuana is not a narcotic (if that's what you mean) and 'narcotic' is an often wrongly used term to include marijuana and cocaine (a central nervous system stimulant). US federal laws (and most state laws) restricting Marijuana's usage erroneously define it as such.
And speed may be nasty, but given that alcohol and tobacco are perfectly legal, there seems no obvious reason why any substance should be illegal on the grounds that they are nasty. The whole concept of illegality in drugs is complete crap, since drugs do not become any less dangerous when control of them is handed over to the black market and also, in Western countries, there is a clear link between illegality and prevalence.
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Sister Ray
Joined: 25 Mar 2006 Location: Fukuoka
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Posted: Sat Mar 24, 2007 1:58 am Post subject: |
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SPINOZA wrote: |
And speed may be nasty, but given that alcohol and tobacco are perfectly legal, there seems no obvious reason why any substance should be illegal on the grounds that they are nasty. |
Yeah, okay. I said I was pro-legalisation. You're preaching to the choir.
Sorry for mixing in my uppers with my downers, but hey that's not all bad.  |
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Yesterday

Joined: 15 Aug 2003 Location: Land of the Morning DongChim (Kancho)
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Posted: Sat Mar 24, 2007 3:43 am Post subject: |
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Basically both tobacco and alcohol are highly addictive - and cause over half of peoples deaths and medically related problems in western countries...
whereas neither marijuana NOR ectacy are addictive - and both almost cause no deaths at all....
(people argue that the latter two cause other psyhological problems - whereas - other SMARTER people know - the psychological problems were ALWAYS there - only the "illegal" drugs brought them to the surface....
HOWVER - from people (like myself) - who are addicted to tobacco and alcohol - and are dying from tobacco/alcohol symptons such as fucked up lungs and infected livers....
I state that alcohol and tobacco are FAR WORSE than marijuana and ectascy...
AND WHY????? am I arguing this on the "Dicscussion site - for foreigners living and working in korea"???? |
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jdog2050

Joined: 17 Dec 2006
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Posted: Sat Mar 24, 2007 5:30 am Post subject: |
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Yesterday wrote: |
Basically both tobacco and alcohol are highly addictive - and cause over half of peoples deaths and medically related problems in western countries...
whereas neither marijuana NOR ectacy are addictive - and both almost cause no deaths at all....
(people argue that the latter two cause other psyhological problems - whereas - other SMARTER people know - the psychological problems were ALWAYS there - only the "illegal" drugs brought them to the surface....
HOWVER - from people (like myself) - who are addicted to tobacco and alcohol - and are dying from tobacco/alcohol symptons such as *beep* up lungs and infected livers....
I state that alcohol and tobacco are FAR WORSE than marijuana and ectascy...
AND WHY????? am I arguing this on the "Dicscussion site - for foreigners living and working in korea"???? |
Because there are sever penalties for "drug" possession in this country as you well know. here is an article showing the mounting evidence for the need to at the least reclassify substances.
Is it just me or can anyone else see drugs being reclassified in most western countries in the next 5 years?
If so, where will that put the northeast asian countries?
There, now does *that* make it "pertinent"? |
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