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Hi all
NO TO DRUGS NOT NEGOTIABLE IN MY OPINION.
SCOURGE OF SOCIETY CAUSES GUN DEATHS VIOLENT STREETS MESSES UP LIVES.
Caffeine and paracetemol do not make you want to fly in the air of the top of a high rise do they?
I have personal experience of seeing someone die in front of me from a drug overdose I massaged their heart in vain and they died in my arms five years ago in New York.
I will not compromise on drugds and swinging I do not see how they go together.
Sorry this thread from me is without humour.
Go safe and hi to Jags.
Sandie
well said sandie druggies should have no place in swinging or society because drugs causemisery and crime
Drugs do not cause misery or crime.
The misuse of drugs by people cause misery. The addiction to a drug and the need to purchase it causes crime.
Change DRUGS to ALCOHOL and the sentence has the same meaning.
Alcohol, is a drug.
Nicotine, is a drug.
OK, so you've got a problem with drugs and people who use them.
Tough.
Now, get onto another subject.
This site has/had a policy of not criticising others choice in enjoyment.
You don't like it, others do.
Lesmond,
Mind you don't hurt yourself when you fall off your high horse. Some people choose to use drugs, millions of people use canabis. No it's not harmeless but or is skiing, you should see my knee. It's cost the NHS a fortune. It's a personal choice, as is swinging.
If you want to see something REALLY dangereous look for the ads asking for 'bareback' I suppose they think only drug users can pick up HIV? Now that practice SHOULD not be advertised.
Anyway I'm off to drink twelve pints of (legal, taxed) Guinness, get into a fight and throw up in a taxi......
I have a friend that uses illegal drugs on a regular basis. Purely so that she can enjoy life. In fact, as time goes on, it is swiftly becoming the only way that she is able to enjoy life, she has become dependant on this drug and cannot do without it. Part of this is physiological, part is psychological. She also takes many other drugs for her MS. But strangely, pot is probably the least dangerous, and most effective of all the drugs she takes, legal or illegal. I don't have a problem with her drug use.
I also have friends who use the same drug on a purely recreational basis. When we go round their house, I drink beer, they smoke dope. I compromise over their drug use.
This same drug is being sold outside my childrens school, to children who attend the school, and being sold inside the school, by students at the school. I do have a problem with this. I do not compromise over this.
I am sure I could list a thousand other situations where people use illegal drugs, and I would have a different reaction to each of them.
Generalisation is a fools paradise, and anyone who enters it can expected to look foolish.
Kat
Hi All
I am not saying nor inferred anything against anyone's personal choice.
It is that I have personally seen the problems twice in my life brought about by drug abuse.
Last year I was nearly killed in the crossfire in a London restaurant as two Yardie gangs shot it out over my head with bullets flying everywhere.
What was the cause for this arms display?HARD DRUGS
Secondly I cradled a girl in my arms as she died on a pavement in front of me in 1998 in New York. Cause? Overdose HARD DRUGS.
I understand the comments on this thread about other addictions and the numerous other drugs commonly accepted in society.
But anyone with any common sense can tell the difference between these and the real dangers that lurk.
Lecturing us on alcohol abuse and nicotene, Skiing injuries, and driving etc all so called socially acceptable dangers, clouds the issue and appeases the drug dealers and the crime and death and mayhem that then ensues.
I understand that an MS sufferer may find solace and comfort in canabis if so legalise for that person on prescription. But keep the rest illegal.
Canabis can lead to heroin to ecstacy etc.
In summary my view is I would not entertain anyone swinging with me high on anything as it makes me feel uncomfortable.
I am sure others have another view.
Go safe and have fun.
Sandie
not many admitting to it is there ??
Has this thread got clouded in some way. We believe the person that wrote the first post was trying to say "the swinging scene is infected with drug abuse". Well if it is we must be going around with our eyes closed as in the 2 (very active) years we have been swinging, we have only ever come across any drug taking once (apart from some guys and girls using viagra). This was at a club and was a girl who was sniffing a bottle of poppers at the point of orgasm. We did say 2 active years this means we swing most weeks and have travelled very extensively across the country to meet people, we are also very active in the club scene.
We also have adds on many different sites and as far as we can recollect have never come across an add that actually states they take drugs.
Paul N Olive
Hi Mattoleman and Paul n Olive
I must say you have both put your point of view succintly and coherently and it appears there is common sense in all our views.
Thanks for the debate.
Go safe and be happy in yourself.
Ian
Drugs, and their misuse, have been a problem since they were first formulated.
I won't go-on about the opium-dens etc..
Along with everything else in this society, drugs became mass-produced.
Now, drugs are "designed" for the effect wanted.
The old drugs, like cannabis and heroin (derived from opium) are fast giving way to cracked cocaine and a large variety of amphetamines.
Drugs are part of the larger problem of crime.
The majority of deaths from drugs are due to overdose, largely due to illegally purchased drugs being of indeterminate strength.
I prefer not to go into the morality of drugs, not on this site anyway !
I would like to think the problem is solvable, but I don't.
My personal point-of-view is that since crime is really big business today, both crime and drugs are problems without a solution.
And since stats show that alcohol is a factor in nearly 40% of crime..... ?
And while I sympathise about people dying from drugs, they really are not doing so in such large numbers....they just look as if they are.
3600 die from motor accidents every year....is the car really that important ?
Over 2000 have died this year in aviation accidents.
A sense of proportion is needed I think.