help! I abused this drug and had a bad reaction how is this legal?!
This post (assuming it isn't bait) reminds me exactly of that meme with the guy throwing a stick through the spokes of their bike
this post was submitted on 23 Jan 2024
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Why should it be illegal?
No one is forcing you to huff it.
I should have been clearer - why is weed illegal while other less-harmful drugs like weed (UK) are illegal? Makes no sense. If I can black out from weed while making coffee surely to fuck weed which has never made me black out should be legal? All weed ever did was make me fucking laugh or get paranoid.
Most of the drug laws are due to back door racism, at least here in the US. They couldn't make laws that directly targeted minorities and so they made laws that targeted things that were part of the targeted minorities culture. Opium and heroin laws seemed to target Asians and the weed laws seemed more to target "beatniks" and Native Americans. It's an interesting (if depressing) research topic of you've a mind.
Chasing the Scream by Johann Hari gives a good run down of the history of the drug war and how/why it came to be. Shocking and depressing.
Also the Behind the Bastards podcast episode on the US Crack Cocaine Epidemic is a good look at that end of things.
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why is weed legal while other less harmful drugs like weed (UK) are illegal?
wat
If I can black out from weed while making coffee sure to fuck weed which has never made me black out should be legal?
Lol I know you meant nicotine and not weed, I think the nicotine is still affecting you
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why is weed illegal
Now that's a good question, very odd indeed. But I don't know the answer.
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That's a really bad argument. People smoking in public do force me to huff the second hand smoke.
That's not an argument for banning nicotine in general. That's an argument for banning smoking in public indoor places, which I think is already the case in most countries.
This and the fact that we're talking about nicotine here, not cigarettes directly.
Inhaling vapor is much less unhealthy (still unhealthy) than inhaling cigarette smoke.
And what about nicotine patches? Should we can those because people don't like inhaling smoke? Doesn't make sense.
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Same way caffien is legal. If you downed 7 espresso shots in a row I'd bet you'd also feel some advers effects. Hell down 7 McDoubles and see if you dont feel adverse effects.
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- Prohibition doesn't work.
Hey now, if we just militarize our police a bit more, kill and/or throw a few more black people in jail, and further erode civil liberties, surely white kids will stop over dosing on drugs.
/s for the morons
I do think it would be interesting to see a ban on alcohol today and how things would play out.
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My guy, see a doctor. Temporary blindness/blacking out is not a normal reaction to nicotine, even in excess. "Nic sick" should just mean nausea/vomiting, dizziness and headaches.
I take it you have never taken nicotine in any capacity then. This is not "nic sick" but that "first hit of the day." Happened to me and everyone I knew when i smoked cigs, and when I kicked it for vaping, and when I kicked that for gum, patches, and lozenges. It's lightheadedness caused by replacing all your air with not air AND the head rush of nicotine.
That said OP should kick the habit if they can anyway (:
I got unconscious on marijuana two times. Not much, smoked a few times before without any consequences. Went to the doctor, he tested my heartbeat (I think), which was fine, and said βwell just donβt smoke marijuanaβ. Which I ended up doing because I was scared. But I would have liked to know what the fuck was going on with me because that canβt be normal. The doctor did not care.
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Sounds more like a blood circulation thing. Nicotine overdose feels more like dizziness and tingling. If you ever feel like fainting try moving your arms and legs to get blood circulation up again. If it happens often see a doctor.
I like the discussion on nicotine, but yeah. Op's "medical moment" seems unrelated to nicotine!
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I think this was supposed to be in c/shitposts
Lobbying. Why is anything in its current legal status? Because a lobby somewhere has spent an amount of money to convince someone to make it so.
The bigger question is why alcohol is not illegal. Ruins lives and families all over the globe. It is addictive, although not as much as opioids, and drunk people cannot drive and can also otherwise not be trusted. Some tend to violent outbursts etc.
The only answer is: It's easy to make, it's been tradition and banning/limiting it has been tried before. And that's also the reason why tobacco is still legal and nicotine isn't illegal.
It is addictive, although not as much as opioids
Here's the thing. There's that famous study of Vietnam vets who used heroin. Turns out that 95% quit cold turkey and never relapsed. In Vietnam, their life was shit, so they used heroin to cope. Back in the US, their lives weren't that shit, so they simply stopped using.
Alcohol? If an alcoholic quits cold turkey, there's a high chance they'll drop dead.
This is partly why there's that 2010 study that ranked alcohol as being more dangerous than heroin.
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Headrush. It's part of the appeal! Funny story, I once stood up too quickly and as I opened the door to leave the room I had a headrush. I grabbed the top of the door for support, but also fell against it trapping my fingers, so I yanked it back and smacked the door into my face, so I pushed it away and trapped my fingers in the top. Good times.
All drugs should be legal. Heroin should be legal. What actions people decide to take towards their own bodies are none of the governments concern (outside of offering rehabilitation).
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I know, right? Last night I drank 5 liters of water while brushing my teeth, and I got a serious stomach ache! How is water legal!?
What I'm saying is that what you experienced there was something called an "user error".
I have smoked for around 15 years now, got a vape maybe 3 years ago and I've never had anything like that happen, unless you count the "contests" we had in middle school.
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Same way alcohol is legal I imagine, we've been doing it for enough time that it has become culture, and it's not like THAT many people die of it anyway.
Luckily smoking (hopefully including e-smokes) appears to still be declining.
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Real question is: Hows weed illegal (well over here it still is) and nicotine is not? It ainβt logical thinking thats for sure.
Don't do that.
If you huff gas you'll get lightheaded, doesn't mean we make it illegal. Self control and responsibility for the win.
Because itβs a major export and cash crop with significant cultural value. Banning it would go like banning alcohol did
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Sarcasm nice
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