The Recreational Drug Thread

[Scarlett O'Hara]

The Afgans bro.

[Freebase Dali]

Originally Posted by Vanilla

I can't believe there is 2.5 million heroin addicts in Russia.

I wonder how they get those statistics...

[Janszoon]

Originally Posted by Vanilla

I can't believe there is 2.5 million heroin addicts in Russia.

According to the BBC, that's the total number of drug addicts in Russia. It's not just heroin addicts, though they are a large part of the picture. Also, you have to remember that Russia is a huge country. 2.5 million is only 1.8% of their population. I don't have the statistics for rates of drug addiction in other countries but it doesn't seem like 1.8% would be an abnormally high figure for anywhere.

[Harry]

Originally Posted by Paloma

Junkies drop like fliesssssssssssssssss

I'm not one to sit here and vouch for this sort of thing.... but may I revise that to stupid people drop like flies. Not everyone is dumb with their ****e...

Originally Posted by Janszoon

According to the BBC, that's the total number of drug addicts in Russia. It's not just heroin addicts, though they are a large part of the picture. Also, you have to remember that Russia is a huge country. 2.5 million is only 1.8% of their population. I don't have the statistics for rates of drug addiction in other countries but it doesn't seem like 1.8% would be an abnormally high figure for anywhere.

Who even takes these surveys, anyways?
Always see all these numbers coming out, but I've never submitted anything!
Not that I bide in Russia, but its the same in UK...

[Janszoon]

Originally Posted by Harry

Who even takes these surveys, anyways?
Always see all these numbers coming out, but I've never submitted anything!
Not that I bide in Russia, but its the same in UK...

I agree. I'd imagine it's hard enough to figure out how many users there are, how would they even begin to figure out how many of them are actually addicted?

[Engine]

Originally Posted by Harry

I'm not one to sit here and vouch for this sort of thing.... but may I revise that to stupid people drop like flies. Not everyone is dumb with their ****e...

Smack addiction tends to take it's toll on one's intellect though. Sure you can be a functioning junkie for a while (even if you're stupid to begin with) but plenty of highly intelligent heroin addicts die young. Be careful..

[lucifer_sam]

The willingness to do smack is a pretty solid indication of poor judgmental abilities in the first place. Opiates themselves are overtly idiotic things to experiment with, just another way for the universe to speed up this "natural selection" business.

[Engine]

Originally Posted by lucifer_sam

The willingness to do smack is a pretty solid indication of poor judgmental abilities in the first place. Opiates themselves are overtly idiotic things to experiment with, just another way for the universe to speed up this "natural selection" business.

Still, smart people do take opiates for fun. Smart people exhibit all kinds of poor judgement daily - with drugs and otherwise. And there is no such thing as natural selection on a generational level. Everybody currently alive will be dead soon enough and every genetic trait in existence will survive in future generations for a while. That is to say that smart people will keep doing smack as well as dying over road rage. And stupid people will continue to use good judgement and live safely. Maybe we should just separate good judgement from intelligence - is there any evidence they are linked?

[Harry]

Originally Posted by Engine

Smack addiction tends to take it's toll on one's intellect though. Sure you can be a functioning junkie for a while (even if you're stupid to begin with) but plenty of highly intelligent heroin addicts die young. Be careful..

I don't categorise using skag as necessarily deeming one a junkie automatically.. a junkie is someone whose strung out and can barely function without their drug. Those are the bums who do 'drop like flies,' but not everyone who uses is like that.
Although admittedly prior judgement aside, it does its toll on judging priorities regardless. And by that I only mean good things don't seem to good anymore, and bad things don't seem that bad.. or at least one won't care enough for either of em. Then again, anything can jumble up your priorities. A significant other is probably a worse drug than any!

The willingness to do smack is a pretty solid indication of poor judgmental abilities in the first place. Opiates themselves are overtly idiotic things to experiment with, just another way for the universe to speed up this "natural selection" business.

aye mate.. I wouldn't judge you based on wot you put in your epidermis needle.
but in all seriousness, theres a million stupid people not doing drugs who feck up your little natural selection scheme. probably more than are.
And now why are opiates so 'overly idiotic' yet blokes can go off about their acid or coke or weed whenever they'd like? I'm not understanding where the bad rap comes from. Unless of course, YOU, sir, mister holier-than-thou, are XXX, in which case I'd understand your 'I dinnieken cos I've never tried it' attitude.

[Janszoon]

Originally Posted by lucifer_sam

The willingness to do smack is a pretty solid indication of poor judgmental abilities in the first place. Opiates themselves are overtly idiotic things to experiment with, just another way for the universe to speed up this "natural selection" business.

People can, and do, make this exact same argument about alcohol. The problem with it is that it's built on a foundation of hyperbole.