[Metal Ken]

Originally Posted by Brett89

I don't think it's a part of the music world... it's only party of the people who use it... I think. Maybe I'm fucking wrong, because I don't know how drugs work and I don't realy know why people use it... but I still say that NO... I don't tolerate drugs, and I don't care that it's good for some one or not, I think it's poisen and on one sould use them.

Here's something that might blow your mind. Atheist wrote all of their music while incredibly high, they were huge promoters for legal marijuana. If you enjoy their music, that was the catalyst for it.

[Dormant]

Originally Posted by Naren

　(I don't consider cigarettes or alcohol to be "drugs", but they do have similar effects and cause similar amounts of damage)

Eric, spot on with everything else you said, but cigarettes and alcohol are most definitely drugs and are among the most lethally damaging and addictive drugs in the world. So what you said about them causing similar amounts of damage is actually incorrect. If you consumed the same amount of alcohol (and I don't mean exact weight comparison but by drug content stimulator level) alcohol is going to do you more cerebral and physical damage than say cocaine is. In pharmaceutical Psychology a drug is defined as anything that affects the central nervous system, causing changes in behavior and often addiction. That includes caffeine.

The reason so many class A drugs are damaging is not the drug themselves (which in their purest forms would so often be so strong as to completely limit your intake anyway) but the shit that gets cut into it. The amount of chemicals, bleaches etc in pharmaceutical street level class 'A's makes them massively damaging.

[Naren]

Originally Posted by Dormant

In pharmaceutical Psychology a drug is defined as anything that affects the central nervous system, causing changes in behavior and often addiction. That includes caffeine.

I was talking it more at the "illegal drugs" angle which the first post seemed to be aimed at, but, yes, with that definition, alcohol and cigarettes would both be drugs.

Originally Posted by Dormant

The reason so many class A drugs are damaging is not the drug themselves (which in their purest forms would so often be so strong as to completely limit your intake anyway) but the shit that gets cut into it. The amount of chemicals, bleaches etc in pharmaceutical street level class 'A's makes them massively damaging.

I've read a lot about that. Some of that can be pretty scary shit.

[Your Majesty]

Originally Posted by Leon

hmm... i'll take an order of Sex and Rock'N Roll. hold the Drugs, please.

Ditto

[Drew]

You pansies. My life as a rockstar won't be complete until I do lines of blow off a stripper's boobs.

[Your Majesty]

Originally Posted by Drew

You pansies. My life as a rockstar won't be complete until I do lines of blow off a stripper's boobs.

You are such a manwhore!

[nitelightboy]

Only in his cracked out delusions.

[noodles]

Originally Posted by Drew

You pansies. My life as a rockstar won't be complete until I do lines of blow off a stripper's boobs.

Trust me, the coke still sucked, even though her rack was perfect, because coke just sucks.

[rummy]

I smoke pot 'cause I'm bored. In my opinion, it's no worse than drinking. Well, I'm saying that 'cause I don't drink.

[Dormant]

Originally Posted by Naren

I was talking it more at the "illegal drugs" angle which the first post seemed to be aimed at, but, yes, with that definition, alcohol and cigarettes would both be drugs.

Yeah that's cool man. I just wanted to reiterate the point that so many accepted drugs are not considered drugs, but they are drugs and they are just as bad for your physical and mental state.