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is extremely harmful to the mind and body.
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can be extremely harmful to the mind and body. So can television, so can junk food, so can a lot of things. But television can also be educational, and junk food certainly isn't all that bad for you if consumed in moderation. But if you want to consume inordinate amounts of junk food, great. It's your body to ruin. The same can be applied to drugs. They can be good, beneficial, harmless...or they can "ruin your life". People just need to know what they're doing.
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Syd Barrett became so artistically creative that during concerts he would just stare into space, and spend time tuning his guitar while the band continued on. At least it opened the door for David Gilmour's career.
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Syd Barrett was a schizophrenic that obviously wasn't educated on the subject of drugs as much as he needed to be. Maybe if, in schools, rather than trying to scare children away from drugs with a bunch of lies and exaggerations, they just gave them the facts and let them make their own decisions, things like that wouldn't happen. Maybe if Syd knew that it was an extremely bad idea for someone suffering from schizophrenia to take LSD at all (let alone daily), he wouldn't have ended up that way.
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I wonder where Keith Moon, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, Elvis Presley, Jimi Hendrix, Dennis Wilson, Freddy Mercury, John Belushi, Marlyn Monroe, Jerry Garcia, Chris Farley and River Phoenix might be today had they not inspired to become more artistically creative.
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Really? I wonder where they ever would've been in the first place had they not aspired to become more artistically creative.
But come on, you can't be serious? What does listing a few names of people who died from drug-related deaths prove? That a few people went about using drugs the wrong way and ended up dead? So what? A lot of people have died because they had shi
tty eating habits as well. But, hey, once again, those bodies were theirs to ruin. And also, once again, perhaps if these people were actually educated on the subject of drugs, they would've had a better idea of what they were getting themselves into and may not have ended up dead.
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I just don't think we should make something so dangerous look so good to the young kids
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Something so potentially dangerous. Pretty much anything in this world can be potentially dangerous. Trains are great for transportation, but they can be dangerous too. And how do even young kids know this? We educate them, of course. We teach them that standing on a train track is a really fucking bad idea. But we also teach them that trains are great for transportation. We show them the good and bad, and show them why. Seems to have gone fairly well so far. Perhaps we should try the same thing with drugs.