My child died of a drug overdose.
You have just told me his death cleansed the gene pool? And that when he was 13 he should have been strong enough to not experiment with the marijuana that led him through the gateway of hell to bigger and better thrills?
I believe in karma to people who give such hurt, but am trying to overcome it. May God protect you from your stupidity and never suffer loss like mine. On the other hand, if you or someone you ove is reborn as an Amsterdam junkie, it might be poetic
But to be candid, yes, he should have known, at 13, after experimenting with marijuana, that he did not have the resistance to addiction and never EVER experimented with anything else.
If your child had no children he did take himself out of the gene pool.
Once again, this is a fact of life not a reflection on your child.
Your child could well have been tempted by the "forbidden fruit" and wanting to rebel, we can't know but you probably do. Marijuana laws lead to less respect for the law in general. People don't see the average pot smoker as a criminal, therefore they lose respect for the law. People who self-medicate tend to have unresolved issues. Attacking the addiction and the drugs are not the answer. Finding out why they feel they must escape is the key to avoiding excessive vice.
Of course we mourn the loss of your son and all those who self destruct. Prohibition wont stop them though
Thousands of people die every year from over usage or incorrect usage of innumerable things. Both legal and illegal.
Your post reminds me of the "if it saves just one life it is worth it" nonsense.
It is not the governments job to protect us from ourselves.
And currently illegal drugs should have been banned in the way alcohol was. Constitutional amendment. No where in the constitution is the federal government granted an enumerated power giving it the authority to tell me or anyone else what we can and can not put into our bodies.
I can only imagine how horrible it would be to lose one of my children to a drug overdose. I am skeptical though when I see someone blame a child's death on marijuana though. I played around with drugs when I was very young too. I idolized rock stars like Jim Morrison, Jimi Hendrix and a few others who were really into drugs and I wanted to experience what they were experiencing. I probably would have taken LSD if that was the first drug available to me. Instead I drank alcohol first, and I took pills that were in the house (my dad was a doctor so we had some heavy duty narcotic painkillers and drugs like Valium in the medicine cabinet). The first illegal drug I took was marijuana, but that's just because it was the first one available to me. I did several others to, as they became available. Smoking marijuana doesn't make you want to do other drugs. Some people, for whatever reason, are just inclined to take drugs and marijuana is the first illegal drug most will encounter. Most will have smoked cigarettes and drank alcohol before trying marijuana, because those drugs are generally going to be available to them first.
One thing about marijuana though is that being illegal using marijuana does open the door to the black market for drugs. If you use marijuana people aren't going to worry so much about breaking other illegal drugs out in front of you. Often the people who sell marijuana will sell other drugs too because all illegal drugs tend to travel through the same channels. I can remember many times looking for pot and the person I would contact would tell me he was out of pot but had some other drug he'd sell me.
Marijuana is already super easy to get, especially if you are young. A greater percentage of young people smoke it than do in oder age groups. Teenagers tend to know lots of people who smoke pot, and the more you know who do it the easier it is for you to get some. All you do is call around and ask your friends. In the process of doing that though you are likely to be offered other far more dangerous drugs.
If we legalized marijuana, far fewer marijuana smoking teens would encounter other far more dangerous drugs. They'd still get pot, just like kids get alcohol. But they probably wouldn't be buying it from dealers who often sell other drugs. They'd get fake IDs or they'd hit up an older relative or friend or acquaintance to go and buy it for them like they do for booze today. Since fewer would encounter these other substances, I think fewer would use them, which in turn means fewer would get addicted and fewer would die from drug overdoses.
My step-mother died of cirrhosis of the liver at the age of 39, brought on by years of alcohol abuse.
Who was responsible for her death?