This section will deal with the controversial subject of the scourge of drugs, particularly the so-called “soft” drugs, which we will approach from a sociological, medical, and psychological standpoint and, I emphasize, in the spirit of prevention, for fixing what is broken after the fact entails its share of risks and costs which are better avoided. Regarding Hans Jonas' quote, let me specify that the fear he refers to is not an uncontrolled, irrational fear but a scientifically grounded concern, based on facts; the same type, really, that makes you look both ways before crossing a street. You will understand at the end of this why it is imperative to disseminate this information to all.

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You will not find here a detailed nomenclature dealing with the physiological effects of each drug. It is not this site's purpose. Other, well-documented sites will be suggested to you to improve your knowledge of the subject should you so desire.

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The drugs theme will be briefly discussed in a broader social and health perspective. This site's main objective is to impress on you that all so-called “soft” drugs are actually hard, very hard.

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According to many a visited website, the “soft” drugs are tobacco, cannabis (marijuana and hashish), and alcohol. Right off the bat, I would exclude alcohol for obvious reasons because leaving it in the drugs nomenclature would, in my opinion, only add to the confusion by suggesting that cannabis are socially acceptable. Why not add sugar and caffeine to the list while we're at it?

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Furthermore, the above-mentioned nomenclature is now being challenged. For instance, it is well known that all hard drugs are highly addictive, addiction being one of the objective classification criteria. However, tobacco is also highly addictive... So which category should we put it in? Which is all the more relevant today as humans (through selection and genetics) have tampered with nicotine and other addiction-inducing substances in order to increase their concentrations. Source: http://rms.medhyg.ch/numero-210-page-1468.htm

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"We know that in bygone days one had to smoke several packs of cigarettes to develop an addiction. Today, a single pack of cigarettes is enough to make many youths addicted. In the case of marijuana, for example, THC concentration is said to have increased more than 900% in the past 30 years through selection work carried out by unknown researchers." In other words modern marijuana's toxicity is incomparably higher today than it was back in Woodstock's days.

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Moreover, be it known that the soft drug myth lives on because it is kept alive by the “industry” - and too often by the useful idiots. Useful idiots in this context does not designate the drugs' victims but instead certain authorities, media, and professionals who downplay the hazards of the so-called “soft drugs”. Some lobbies obviously stand to gain by pretending that marijuana is a soft drug. By using an innocuous-sounding word, they lower the psychological and intellectual defenses of the target individuals. This is a scheme that makes more readily acceptable what would normally be unacceptable to the vast majority.

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Of course, the drug “industry” also stands to gain from enticing people to simply give the supposedly “soft” marijuana a try for it is well-known, as borne out by statistics, that nearly 100% of cocaine users have previously tried marijuana. In short, “pot” is the gateway to harder and more potent drugs in the same way that cigarettes are a gateway to marijuana. To be candid, soft drugs are an oxymoron. One only has to look at the ordeal experienced by smokers wishing to stop.

This reductionist strategy is a true Trojan horse that fools a host of people including teachers and mainly the youths. And now our governments collapsing under crushing debt loads seem poised to take over, particularly the Liberal Party of Canada under the leadership of jolly Justin Trudeau in order to legalize and promote marijuana, an extremely dangerous drug.

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Do you have doubts? Perhaps some of you who have used drugs in the past will find that somewhat paternalistic, moralizing, even exaggerated? By reading the rest you will get to realize that using marijuana and other drugs is playing Russian roulette... But most of all, you will discover that talking about “soft drugs” is a form of underhanded corruption of our young people!

 

The time to act is now!

A major discovery took place in the United States in (...) in 2004. A doctor at (...) University discovered a variation on previously known genetic diseases, porphyria. One of those variations is erythropoietic protoporphyria (EPP).

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What he discovered is a subclass, MEPP ("M" standing for "masked"). Though less serious than the original disease known to doctors (EPP), being “masked”, it causes serious health problems to individuals with defective genes to whom the same contraindications apply as they do the persons affected with the original illness (EPP). But because MEPP-suffering individuals have no knowledge of their condition and appear asymptomatic (as the symptoms are less easily detectable) those people's condition worsens surreptitiously until around 40 years of age, at which time their issues start to seriously inconvenience the people around them.

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Thus, from ages 25 to 60, diseased individuals may experience problems akin to those of persons with a bipolar or psychotic condition. They generally end up on antidepressants which in some cases worsen their state because doctors are still in the dark about MEPP. The incurable disease often degenerates into liver cancer around 60.

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The Quebec-born American researcher had blood samples of people with MEPP genetically analyzed (at Cardiff University, England). Genetic statistical analyzes were then performed. The results are dreadful -- 75,000 people unknowingly carry the MEPP subclass at varying degrees in Quebec. Given that the same contraindications apply to them as to porphyria sufferers, you should know that chief amongst them is... marijuana.

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In their case, this contraindication is absolute. They must NEVER, for any reason whatsoever, consume marijuana or its derivatives!

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Just one marijuana joint can trigger instant psychosis in MEPP sufferers (which sadly too often leads to schizophrenia). For that matter, this discovery provides an explanation to a mystery that has preoccupied researchers for decades: why about 4 to 7% of the population develop this mental pathology after only one marijuana joint. I personally know several people in that situation. MEPP may not be solely responsible in those cases.

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Right now, psychological research shows that the main factor preventing young (and less young) people from trying the drug happens to be the psychological deterrent of warnings by authorities, mainly parents, health practitioners and police. Once again, Milgram's discoveries' relevancy shines through.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Milgram

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Consequently, interrupting or negating those warnings through the legalization or decriminalization of marijuana will lead many youths to give this dangerous drug a try, thereby providing another opportunity to corrupt our young people, already subjected to the adults' ineptitude and inconsistency. Worse, it is to be feared that an heretofore self-restraining adult population might be tempted to experiment with the drug.