A manifesto for the responsible use of drugs and alcohol

Detoxification should be the first level of a drug rehab. You can withdraw yourself completely from drug dependency through good drug treatment center which provides proper rehab facilities.

I agree that you have the right to do what you want as long as you are the only one affected, but usually taking these drugs drive to violence, anger & unawareness of the surroundings.

I agree only with this point of yours that we live in a free society and we should be free to do whatever we want to do. But we are human beings and we have some responsibilities also towards our society and our families. And if we take drug it will have bad effects not only on our lives but also on our families too. So in order to provide them better life and fulfil our responsibilites properly we should not take drugs as it causes only harm on our body and this will harm our families and society also. If anyone is suffering from drug addiction he should get proper drug addiction treatment.

I partially agree with the manifesto. The user must be responsible of not using drugs at the same time as activities such as driving, swimming, operating machinery, or other activities which are unsafe without a sober state. 

There is a paradox in your post, you obviously appreciate a free society, freedom of choice and the very concept of freedom. Newsflash for you: using drugs takes freedom away from you. If your are willing to accept that then you really are a responsible person. Rogger, drug addiction treatment counselor

As for a short text manifesto is OK.It is impossible to even touche every aspect of  a drug use.As a drugs I mean all psychoactive substances.I found manifesto clear,wise,not revolutionary but evolutionary statement which I sign.

What about diference of drugs and their influence on mind and body,there is so many diversity between them that any categorising I will leave to the specialists.One more thing,I am personaly against putting some drugs as "hard""low risk" or any other category cos everything depends on humans!What was first agression or use of amphetamine?Can we be sure what cause agression?

Lets educate in honest way,no lies,If we don`t know something just say it so.

In Solidarity

Marianna Masia Iwulska

The alcohol lobby, at least here in the U.S., has long championed the "responsible use" theory to distinguish between those who consume alcohol unwisely and those consuming responsibly, and therefore justify alcohol's legal status.

With four decades of perspective, we have come to see the "responsible use" theory parallel itself inside the illicit drug environment: as not every drinker is a drunkard, so too is not every drug user an abuser.

The overwhelming majority of drug users do so responsibly. This is an important point, one that must be repeated often.  The media's normal course has been to report only the criminal side of the story, and such bias must no longer be tolerated - especially as many in the media enjoy a nice toke now and again.

Shout down the hypocrisy and amplify the truth.

Daniel Williams

www.theopiumden.net  

All drugs are not the same.  Some are harmless/benign others pose real problems to any society.  I believe it is necessary to distinguish between low social risk and high social risk drugs.  The risk to the individual remains the individuals problem whatever the law,  except of course the law can and does add-on risks in respect of criminality.

I believe the low social risk drugs are cannabis, tranquilizers, MDMA, opiates and psychadelics in that it is only the criminal law that represents serious risk to the vast majority of users.

In my opinion stimulants such as cocaine crack and amphetamines  do pose a societal risk. Firstly they are more-ish secondly they have rapid tolerance building qualities abnd thirdly they quickly change the mores of users from hedonists into agressive  amoral, and egotistic  criminal shits.

All the former drugs, provided supply and use were legal encourage introspection and relaxed social interaction.

The latter all foster extrovert sociopathic tendency simillar to alchohol abuse.  I think education and the 'weaning' to the use of drugs in the first category  a far more sensible aproach than   criminalizing use and distrution.

My last point is it is very much simpler to 'use' responsibly any drug if one has a life.  The middle classes are rarely confounded by drug use it is the poor who get fucked by them.

Politicians don't just need to understand this... they need to sign up to it too!

This is a good manifesto, though I am not sure the part about being a: "productive and socially useful member of society" really applies to me... But good work nonetheless, I agree with Magic Mouse's comment!