Drugs

During last Thursdays lecture Gerry said one thing which I think was so worthwhile that even if for the remainder of the lecture he recited nursery rhymes it still would have been beneficial. He suggested that people take drugs to make their life fun, so does it mean that their life is not fun the rest of the time?
Although this might have been said in jest, I think that it has a lot of sense behind it. It’s something that a few of us were talking about, and we all seemed to agree that somebody with quite a happy disposition wouldn’t consider taking them – because they don’t have something that they need to block out. Maybe that is a very broad generalisation and maybe it isn’t true of everybody, but in my opinion it makes sense.
I found this website which I think it makes some insightful assumptions as to the reasons people take drugs – and then very successfully argues why it is ignorantly stupid to indulge in such idiocies.
As for the argument if drugs should be legalised or not then I am firmly on the side which says HELL NO! Gerry had a point that banning them has done very little good, but legalising them would make it seem like it’s ok to take drugs and is suggesting that they are harmless. At least while they are illegal the morons that abuse them can be prosecuted.