Colombia’s president: Legalize cocaine, it’s no worse than whiskey

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You can grow coca plants in other nations. It grows in Bolivia, Colombia, Peru, Ecuador, Brazil and Venezuela.

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Cocaine, like, regular chemical cocaine, is also used as a vasopressor (think Epinephrine) in Europe.

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Alcohol - meaning Ethanol - is also used in medicine due its antimicrobial properties though. I believe the medical-grade mouthwash I used after my wisdom teeth were removed contained some ethanol, though I'm unsure because I didn't memorize the ingredients.

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Really ? the devil ? We agree on the fact that legalization would go a long way in encouraging safe use. However you seem to be under the impression that drugs are solely used as a getaway from hardships of life. Let me know if I got that wrong. In any case, plenty of users find drugs to be entertaining, eye-opening, tranquilizing, or otherwise interesting or helpful in a variety of other ways. I think it's important to remember that many drugs are just part of nature; plants, mushrooms. They're god's creation.

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99% of my drug problems are law related.

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I read some time ago that drug producers often don't want it to be legal. They make a lot more money when it's illegal.

But yes, I believe so too.

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If drugs are legal, education on such stuff could be done in schools, just like sexual education.

It also allows people to be honest about their usage in case of heart problems. For example, I live in a country where you can simply tell your doctor or hospital about drugs in your system and they will not call the police for it. It's much safer.

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Both can be horrible.

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There are synthetic cathinones that give a similar effect.

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just like sexual education.

Not off to a great start there for a major part of the USA

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USA only has 4.2% of the world population. And the article is about the Columbian president and his stance.

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It's also about how the US threatened to pull out of the WHO over the report.

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I have met plenty of people who did various drugs. I have made various experiences myself. Nobody that i met who did drugs, was in good place in life all around. Those who did materially well had family issues, anxieties, etc.

Everyone who developed to do better reduced and eventually stopped using drugs regularly including not drinking alcohol much anymore.

Some drugs are needed for medicinal uses. Some like psychedelics can have a a very positive impact in therapy, if used properly. But that is very different from taking acid at some festival, where many people end up on bad trips. I also volunteered for helping people with bad trips on festivals, provide safer use material, and sometimes drug checking. Psychedelics often have a history of spiritual use in a careful ritualized setting by people who lived in a very different relationship to their environment. In my eyes that is more of a medicinal use than how psychedelics are mostly used "recreationally".

I think we can agree that these are very different from the Cocaine, Meth and Alcohol i mentioned as coming from the devil. For cocaine one could argue, whether Coca-Tea is to be put in the same category as extracted cocaine.

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if someone gets reeeally drunk, they’ll probably sleep… maybe do some sloppy fighting or very risky driving….
if someone does a whole lot of cocaine, they do some crazy shit.

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Maybe you got confused by other comments in the thread here. No worries.

But yeah, in some countries there is already drug education in school, albeit very basic. Most of it is stuff like how you shouldn't mix uppers and downers and that you should drink a lot of water.

The Netherlands has some great drug education though. They even allow stuff like this: https://www.youtube.com/@Drugslab

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Colombia’s president: Legalize cocaine, it’s no worse than whiskey