You have got to be kidding me. Zon, where are you getting your information? Cocaine blocks dopamine reuptake receptors in the brain and thus constantly stimulates the body as long as the cocaine is bound to the receptor. Dopamine is what your body experiences when you're having sex or some other immense high. Cocaine produces the same effect, only your body keeps dumping dopamine into the synampse and never reuptakes it. That kind of action is incredibly addictive.
Cocaine is way, way, way, way more addictive than any drug listed above. Without question.
Cocaine is way, way, way, way more addictive than any drug listed above. Without question.
You are flatly wrong. You're "without question" remark is a typical status-quo protection tactic. Don't ask questions, just take my word for it.
THE POINT is not which substances may be more harmful than others, rather, which actions inflict harm on another person. And that the person harmed should gain restitution for their pain and suffering.
How have you been harmed by a person's act of ingesting drugs? You haven't. Otherwise you would take the person to court, before an impartial jury and try to convince the jury that Joe Defendant harmed you by putting drugs into his body. Doing that so that you may gain restitution for your pain and suffering. Ninety-nine out of one-hundred impartial juries would decide in favor of the defendant. Probably even frown at your attempt to shakedown Joe Defendant for minding his own business.
Really? I defy you to produce evidence of this assertion. You can begin by citing studies that show that the percentage of cocaine users who have subsequently been able to quit is lower than the percentage of former smokers who have quit cigarettes and stayed off them.
-ccm