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'This entertainment brought to you by Zoloft; never be sad!'

Gordon Brown, the new British PM has said on the record that he wants to extradite drug dealers from the UK. Canada and the UK are importing these disasterous US drugs laws.

These drug laws are more harmful than all the drugs you can imagine added together and multiplied by the first number you can think of.

Government definition of what constitutes a 'drug' is extraordinarily broad and not based in reality. When a drug is listed illegal, it is defined in law as having no medicinal or pharmaceutical value - and no research can be done on a listed drug.

Psychedelics are not drugs. Marijuana is the oldest medicine known to mankind.

LSD was used during the 60s to treat alcoholism with a success rate in the high 90%s - this essentially makes it a CURE for alcoholism.
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-10/uoa-ltf100606.php

MDMA has been used in psychotherapy to treat post-traumatic stress disorder with a success rate in the high 90%s - this essentially makes it a CURE for traumatic stress. American soldiers are starting to receive this treatment.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2005/feb/17/usnews.drugsandalcohol

Pharmaceutical companies aren't interested in cures.

Antidepressants like Prozac, Zoloft, Celexa, Paxil CR, Effexor, Remeron, and Serzone DOUBLE the suicide risk in young adults.

This is a HUGE political issue. For god's sake it's the 21st century and it's about damn time people started to waken the fuck up.

Thanks, cybrbeast. I'll surprise everyone and keep this post short

On the pot/schizophrenia issue to a large extent I'd guess you're right. I don't see evidence that pot causes the problem as such, but I do see evidence that some have problems. We know people can react badly to alcohol, to prescription mood altering drugs, so why not to this as well if they are in some way predisposed to problems? For some anything that messes with their state of mind can't help.

The way I look at it that's not a reason to keep it illegal no more than it's a reason to outlaw zoloft, prozac, or alcohol. It's a reason to make help as available as walking into an AA meeting is for those with an alcohol problem today. Prohibition hasn't worked yet and isn't likely to, all we do is to punish some who didn't need it and keep those who might need help afraid to ask for it. If more were in treatment and less in jail or prison I suspect we'd do better across the board with the drug problem.

I've been on Zoloft, Effexor, and Luvox. The withdrawals actually weren't bad for me (and I stopped cold turkey...not lowering the dose over a week).

The only thing that bothered me were the tingling/electric shock sensation that radiates from the back of the head down the spine and towards the limbs everytime I got up to move or walk. It wasn't painful...just a skin crawling type sensation.

He's not drunk, but massively hopped up on Zoloft (see http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1845896). And the aw-shucks country boy thing is an act.. apparently the accent gets much more pronounced when TV cams are around.