Wonky ,very interesting reading.I don't understand why anyone would try taking drugs when they know dangerous they are. Why risk your life so that you can feel good for a while then do it again and hey presto your hooked. I have been through some very stressful times in my life and ended up with depression and anxiety, but never once thought about taking drugs or drink to see me through it. If you respect yourself at all wouldn't it be better to fight hard to get out of one bad situation and not get into another through drink or drugs. I suppose I was lucky I had my garden and it helped me enormously, when I couldn't face going out for months on end I would be found in my garden with a smile on my face. Long live the power of the garden
I totally agree Linda, make life happy and you don't need escapism! but history and stats show its not going to stop anytime soon so let's make it safe and take the profits out of the hands of criminals and use it to fund hospitals for example
The successful middle aged businessman I know who spends every evening absolutely blotto on gin rather than admit to friends, other businessmen and employees that he has an inherited bi polar condition
or
the talented young man who smokes a bit of dope to cope with the fact that his first memory as a child is of being thrown across the room by his successful academic father, and who was homeless at sixteen because his parents' new 'dream home in the country' only had two bedrooms and his father needed one of them as a study - he was put in a scuzzy rented room in the red light district of his local town and left to get himself back and forth to college.
All absolutely true.
Some people don't have the childhood and life experiences to make good choices - it doesn't make them bad people.
Some people don't have the unconditional love of parents and friends to give them the resilience to cope when life gets tough.
Some people have already had to cope with sexual abuse or bullying or bereavement, and then life gets really tough ...
The mental health service in this country is appalling - take antedepressants prescribed by a non-specialist GP and have a nine month wait for mental health support or maybe take no medication and go even further downhill resulting being Sectioned and admitted to a mental hospital as an in patient.
That's the choice given recently to someone I know who has been going to her doctor repeatedly for months asking for support for her anxiety and depression.
Is it any wonder that some people resort to 'a little something' that seems to help blank out the bad times
Don't judge a person until you've walked a mile in their shoes.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
It is so nice to hear some rational debate on this subject. The more the government tries to clamp down on drug use, the more of a problem it becomes. Ban one thing and another will pop up in next to no time and each new thing is more of an unknown quantity.
We should be using cannabis to help people with medical problems, and we should be alllowed to grow a few plants at home for personal use. This is gradually happening in other countries so why not here. I love the smell of the plants and would love to be able to grow them openly in the flower beds just so that I could enjoy the perfume and the foliage......I do not smoke so for me there is no point in growing them for that reason. Some people use the plant to help with anxiety, some to alleviate pain. I think it is criminal to deny people the use of a plant that has so much to offer.
I understand that Colorado's tax receipts have incerased hugely since they legalised the drug. If that happened in this country the money could go to the NHS or to units dealing with alcohol dependency.
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Wonky ,very interesting reading.I don't understand why anyone would try taking drugs when they know dangerous they are. Why risk your life so that you can feel good for a while then do it again and hey presto your hooked. I have been through some very stressful times in my life and ended up with depression and anxiety, but never once thought about taking drugs or drink to see me through it. If you respect yourself at all wouldn't it be better to fight hard to get out of one bad situation and not get into another through drink or drugs. I suppose I was lucky I had my garden and it helped me enormously, when I couldn't face going out for months on end I would be found in my garden with a smile on my face. Long live the power of the garden
I totally agree Linda, make life happy and you don't need escapism!
but history and stats show its not going to stop anytime soon so let's make it safe and take the profits out of the hands of criminals and use it to fund hospitals for example 
Who is more deserving of NHS funds?
The successful middle aged businessman I know who spends every evening absolutely blotto on gin rather than admit to friends, other businessmen and employees that he has an inherited bi polar condition
or
the talented young man who smokes a bit of dope to cope with the fact that his first memory as a child is of being thrown across the room by his successful academic father, and who was homeless at sixteen because his parents' new 'dream home in the country' only had two bedrooms and his father needed one of them as a study - he was put in a scuzzy rented room in the red light district of his local town and left to get himself back and forth to college.
All absolutely true.
Some people don't have the childhood and life experiences to make good choices - it doesn't make them bad people.
Some people don't have the unconditional love of parents and friends to give them the resilience to cope when life gets tough.
Some people have already had to cope with sexual abuse or bullying or bereavement, and then life gets really tough ...
The mental health service in this country is appalling - take antedepressants prescribed by a non-specialist GP and have a nine month wait for mental health support or maybe take no medication and go even further downhill resulting being Sectioned and admitted to a mental hospital as an in patient.
That's the choice given recently to someone I know who has been going to her doctor repeatedly for months asking for support for her anxiety and depression.
Is it any wonder that some people resort to 'a little something' that seems to help blank out the bad times
Don't judge a person until you've walked a mile in their shoes.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Linda - you mention self respect.
In order to respect yourself you have to have experienced being respected by others when you were a child ... not everyone has that experience
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
It is so nice to hear some rational debate on this subject. The more the government tries to clamp down on drug use, the more of a problem it becomes. Ban one thing and another will pop up in next to no time and each new thing is more of an unknown quantity.
We should be using cannabis to help people with medical problems, and we should be alllowed to grow a few plants at home for personal use. This is gradually happening in other countries so why not here. I love the smell of the plants and would love to be able to grow them openly in the flower beds just so that I could enjoy the perfume and the foliage......I do not smoke so for me there is no point in growing them for that reason. Some people use the plant to help with anxiety, some to alleviate pain. I think it is criminal to deny people the use of a plant that has so much to offer.
I understand that Colorado's tax receipts have incerased hugely since they legalised the drug. If that happened in this country the money could go to the NHS or to units dealing with alcohol dependency.