I spent all day Friday in a Spanish court house giving evidence after being attacked on Thursday evening in my local bar by one of the local drug addicts who was wielding a carving knife. If not for the swift action of the police then I probably would not be here now. I can assure you that he didnt want to be asked if everything was ok or for that matter talk about anything else. Sadly he is now walking the streets again after being handed a suspended sentence, until of course he does something similar again under the influence of drugs and alcohol. If you or your family would like to spend time talking to these people and ask them why they are mugging women and pensioners to buy drugs then that is your prerogative. Personally I would lock them up and throw away the key.
Hello poborsky, glad to hear you survived the ordeal. Being a direct victim of crime is not a pleasant experience.
My point I was making is that for men/women to actually go into bars, high , and start waving carving knives around is not a natural state for any human to live by. (and that is open to nature nurture debate of course) They, (those waving carving knives) are victims themselves. I mean it cannot be healthy for any man or woman to live with those states of aggressive desires as a matter of normality. The symptom of their addictions ? can include going out, mugging, destroying other peoples property and crimes of murder and assault and other acts against their neighbours/ communities.
And that was also another point I was making, we all become victims, some more directly involved than others, yes, but this is happening in all our bars, all our communities, hence I can see it's a social disease , that affects us all in some way.
I'm not sure locking up/ignoring the users of these drugs is going to do any long term benefit for our communities. Perhaps if there were more workshops run by former users, who could act as role models for current addicts, they might stand a better chance of pulling through and kicking their addiction to these substances and thereby lowering the crime associated with users.
But the state, if people are to have faith in it, are obligated to protect the "body politic" (citizens) in return for their allegiance, so its right that your Police Officers protected you from physical harm.
Saying all the above however, I also do stand by that any man should be able to consume any natural plant, herb or substance ,in his own privacy , providing his actions do no harm to any other directly.
As an example , that would include allowing , anyone growing and using cannabis. That is a natural plant thousand of years old, and one which has lots of medicinal uses. And for any outside commercial agency to suggest that mankind cannot use it for their own private, peaceful, beneficial use is a crime against humanity.
That's another thread to itself though maybe.
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