Puff to save the US economy

[brian-uk]

Lots of posts on the web lately in the same vein as well as the medicinal side
http://bri.storedat.co.uk/sd/msg/[/img] ... d=13237193
Nice pic

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/03/ ... 4665.shtml

http://blog.norml.org/2009/03/01/is-mar ... rlin-wall/
http://media.www.redandblack.com/media/ ... 9795.shtml
http://www.myfoxchicago.com/dpp/news/Me ... na_mar0409
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/01/us/01sin.html?hp
http://www.examiner.com/x-3157-LA-Mens- ... ars-Senate
http://blog.indecision2008.com/2009/02/ ... calm-high/

I’m not happy with these genocidal swine though
http://walt.foreignpolicy.com/posts/200 ... d_goldberg
The bankers cosy cartel it's called the federal reserve
http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archiv ... on_aig.php
bri

[lampshade]

Surely that graph can't be right: withdrawl from alcohol worse than heroin??

[brian-uk]

Surely that graph can't be right: withdrawl from alcohol worse than heroin??

It's right, a junkie sweats it off in three days doing cold turkey, heavy drinkers gets the shakes yes but also he/she can fit and have seizures, it can kill, it’s a very difficult psychosomatic “habit” to break but I would say a heavy crack user has a difficult one to break as well.
What the graph doesn't show is the damage caused to society by alcohol in the UK, the domestic violence and the street violence, has been calculated that over 50% of all violence in the UK is directly attributable to alcohol.

It’s only in the UK that heavy drinking is seen as “manly”, very unfortunate for the rest of us.

An ex-heavy drinker
bri

[Sir Niall of Essex-sire]

Surely that graph can't be right: withdrawl from alcohol worse than heroin??

It's right, a junkie sweats it off in three days doing cold turkey, heavy drinkers gets the shakes yes but also he/she can fit and have seizures, it can kill, it’s a very difficult psychosomatic “habit” to break but I would say a heavy crack user has a difficult one to break as well.
What the graph doesn't show is the damage caused to society by alcohol in the UK, the domestic violence and the street violence, has been calculated that over 50% of all violence in the UK is directly attributable to alcohol.

It’s only in the UK that heavy drinking is seen as “manly”, very unfortunate for the rest of us.

An ex-heavy drinker
bri

Very very true, its also inbuild into our culture. For a long long while now England has been a hard drinking place. Obnoxios behaviour inculding damage to public property and fighting is also excepted as part of the culture, which is a crazy thing. Its now accepted that some people of a friday or saturday or both will drink themselves to the stage of not being able to move and clogging up our A&E on a friday and saturday night. Drinking is i think associated with a manly connotations in many places, but its only in the UK were it is not embrassing for someone to get paraletic.