Should we be legalizing drugs
Dec 31, 2015 07:45:28 #
Should we be legalizing drugs?
This is almost a no-brainer. Would you want the doctor that is going to operate on you to smoke a joint to calm his nerves? Can you imagine a truck driver hauling a 50,000 pound load smoking a joint while driving? What about your child or your childs teacher? Legalizing drugs is bad for America. Illegal drugs damage every life they touch and dont help anybody. The life of a child is mainly centered on pleasure. A transition occurs as children become teenagers. Hormones transition a child into an adult. We all grow up physically. If we keep the pleasure seeking mentality into adulthood, it stunts our maturity. If a person engages in adult activities before they are an adult, they believe that life is perpetual childhood. Life is not perpetual childhood and if we make better decisions we will have a more productive outcome. Teenagers lives are stressful. Chemicals are transitioning them from child to adult and then there is the added pressure of peers and the media. Everybody seems to give the same message that the future should be of no concern. That right now is all that matters. That they will never grow up and mistakes are bad things. The truth is success comes from good decisions. Good decisions come from experience. Experience comes from bad decisions. A lot of kids get involved with drugs because of peer pressure, but no one looks up to a junkie. If you avoid drugs you will not become a junkie. (If you dont drink alcohol you will never get a DUI). Some things are easier to avoid than fix. Revelation 21:8 describes the character traits of those that will be on to the first train to hell. Number six is sorcerers. This word in the Greek is pharmakeus. We get the word pharmacy from this word. Drug addicts will be on the first train to hell. They have chosen to take what could have been a good life and wipe their butt with it. If you make the main focus of your life feeling good then you probably think the legalization of drugs is a good thing. But getting off drugs is not easy and no one celebrates getting hooked. I have seen drugs destroy lives and ruin families. I have seen better people than myself lose everything they had because of drugs. I have seen a few functioning addicts who could hold down a job and still keep a family. What I have never seen in 50 years is drugs help anybody. Success is going to be tough and require sacrifice. It will require strict discipline. Drugs dont help. Drugs are like a deep ditch. They are easy to fall in, (drug dealers give you your first high for free), but tough to get out, (when you get hooked you will do anything to get more).
This is almost a no-brainer. Would you want the doctor that is going to operate on you to smoke a joint to calm his nerves? Can you imagine a truck driver hauling a 50,000 pound load smoking a joint while driving? What about your child or your childs teacher? Legalizing drugs is bad for America. Illegal drugs damage every life they touch and dont help anybody. The life of a child is mainly centered on pleasure. A transition occurs as children become teenagers. Hormones transition a child into an adult. We all grow up physically. If we keep the pleasure seeking mentality into adulthood, it stunts our maturity. If a person engages in adult activities before they are an adult, they believe that life is perpetual childhood. Life is not perpetual childhood and if we make better decisions we will have a more productive outcome. Teenagers lives are stressful. Chemicals are transitioning them from child to adult and then there is the added pressure of peers and the media. Everybody seems to give the same message that the future should be of no concern. That right now is all that matters. That they will never grow up and mistakes are bad things. The truth is success comes from good decisions. Good decisions come from experience. Experience comes from bad decisions. A lot of kids get involved with drugs because of peer pressure, but no one looks up to a junkie. If you avoid drugs you will not become a junkie. (If you dont drink alcohol you will never get a DUI). Some things are easier to avoid than fix. Revelation 21:8 describes the character traits of those that will be on to the first train to hell. Number six is sorcerers. This word in the Greek is pharmakeus. We get the word pharmacy from this word. Drug addicts will be on the first train to hell. They have chosen to take what could have been a good life and wipe their butt with it. If you make the main focus of your life feeling good then you probably think the legalization of drugs is a good thing. But getting off drugs is not easy and no one celebrates getting hooked. I have seen drugs destroy lives and ruin families. I have seen better people than myself lose everything they had because of drugs. I have seen a few functioning addicts who could hold down a job and still keep a family. What I have never seen in 50 years is drugs help anybody. Success is going to be tough and require sacrifice. It will require strict discipline. Drugs dont help. Drugs are like a deep ditch. They are easy to fall in, (drug dealers give you your first high for free), but tough to get out, (when you get hooked you will do anything to get more).
Dec 31, 2015 07:55:56 #
fredlott63 wrote:
Should we be legalizing drugs? br This is almost a... (show quote)
Legal or illegal people are going to do drugs. And surgeons have access to drugs much more potent than pot--if you are going to worry that's what you should be worried about...
Dec 31, 2015 08:03:09 #
PeterS wrote:
Legal or illegal people are going to do drugs. And surgeons have access to drugs much more potent than pot--if you are going to worry that's what you should be worried about...
When you choose drugs you choose your own destruction.
Jan 13, 2016 23:31:06 #
fredlott63 wrote:
Should we be legalizing drugs? br This is almost a... (show quote)
Legalize all drugs: a no-brainer.
Jan 13, 2016 23:53:25 #
Jan 14, 2016 03:41:26 #
Jan 14, 2016 15:01:26 #
fredlott63 wrote:
Should we be legalizing drugs? br This is almost a... (show quote)
Portugal legalized drug usage 12 years ago: the result, drug usage plummeted, and addiction could be treated, since it wasn't treated as a crime anymore. The government has clinics set up with quality control and low prices, you just have to be willing to get treated for addiction.
...so the answer is yes, legalize drugs. Anything else is just hypocrisy.
Jan 14, 2016 16:50:44 #
Dummy Boy wrote:
...so the answer is yes, legalize drugs. Anything else is just hypocrisy.
It's hypocrisy TO legalize drugs. Why not attack the root of the problem? People who use drugs, drink, gamble, smoke, etc. are in need of a saviour in Jesus Christ. I am a living testament to His power of overcoming these and numerous other vices.
Jan 16, 2016 14:45:54 #
mwdegutis wrote:
It's hypocrisy TO legalize drugs. Why not attack the root of the problem? People who use drugs, drink, gamble, smoke, etc. are in need of a saviour in Jesus Christ. I am a living testament to His power of overcoming these and numerous other vices.
Nope, it hypocrisy to treat an addict or troubled individual as a criminal. It is not a crime to be either. You or anyone else will never, ever stop drugs.The root of the problem is being born human where we force a teenage to have a baby who didn't want to get pregnant in the first place.
Why aren't preaching outside bars, casinos, crack houses and hooka bars? Apparently, the only people that need Jesus already have Jesus.
Jan 16, 2016 18:40:58 #
Dummy Boy wrote:
Nope, it hypocrisy to treat an addict or troubled individual as a criminal. It is not a crime to be either. You or anyone else will never, ever stop drugs.The root of the problem is being born human where we force a teenage to have a baby who didn't want to get pregnant in the first place.
Why aren't preaching outside bars, casinos, crack houses and hooka bars? Apparently, the only people that need Jesus already have Jesus.
Why aren't preaching outside bars, casinos, crack houses and hooka bars? Apparently, the only people that need Jesus already have Jesus.
Why didn't you comment on my solution?
Jan 19, 2016 13:00:03 #
mwdegutis wrote:
Why didn't you comment on my solution?
Do you know how many people in prison that have been forgiven by Jesus....every one of them. So, your solution is a non-solution. If Jesus was the solution, we wouldn't have plenty of Christians addicted to painkillers or sex.
Jan 19, 2016 13:56:40 #
Dummy Boy wrote:
Do you know how many people in prison that have been forgiven by Jesus....every one of them. So, your solution is a non-solution. If Jesus was the solution, we wouldn't have plenty of Christians addicted to painkillers or sex.
Jesus IS the solution. It's people like you and those "Christians" addicted to painkillers or sex or who are in prison that don't believe it in their hearts that make Him a non-solution.
Jan 19, 2016 14:21:46 #
mwdegutis wrote:
Jesus IS the solution. It's people like you and those "Christians" addicted to painkillers or sex or who are in prison that don't believe it in their hearts that make Him a non-solution.
Nope: there are all kinds of "believers" that claim belief, therefore Jesus is not the solution. In fact, if you're hallucinating about Jesus, than you have the problem.
Just because someone told you that Jesus solved all their problems doesn't mean they're telling the truth.
I'm not addicted to anything...other than sleep I guess...it's all bunk...I put my pants on every morning (for now), Jesus never got it done: me that's who.
Jan 19, 2016 14:35:32 #
Dummy Boy wrote:
Nope: there are all kinds of "believers" that claim belief, therefore Jesus is not the solution. In fact, if you're hallucinating about Jesus, than you have the problem.
Just because someone told you that Jesus solved all their problems doesn't mean they're telling the truth.
I'm not addicted to anything...other than sleep I guess...it's all bunk...I put my pants on every morning (for now), Jesus never got it done: me that's who.
Just because someone told you that Jesus solved all their problems doesn't mean they're telling the truth.
I'm not addicted to anything...other than sleep I guess...it's all bunk...I put my pants on every morning (for now), Jesus never got it done: me that's who.
"Believers," in quotation marks, are not believers. And from what you posted, it appears you aren't either.
And I am not "hallucinating" about Jesus. I am a living testament to His power to change someone.
Jan 19, 2016 15:28:41 #
mwdegutis wrote:
"Believers," in quotation marks, are not believers. And from what you posted, it appears you aren't either.
And I am not "hallucinating" about Jesus. I am a living testament to His power to change someone.
And I am not "hallucinating" about Jesus. I am a living testament to His power to change someone.
You didn't change me or my mind...add liar to your list of accomplishments with Jesus's concurrence.
Only Jesus can change someone...you're delusional or a psychopath.
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