Why Are People So Misinformed When It Comes to Drugs?

Question by synthetic messiah: Why are people so misinformed when it comes to drugs?
The ignorance in the world in terms of drugs is astounding. The amount of misinformation that is used to scare children into not using drugs is the wrong way to go about educating them. I was just wondering what other people thought of about such lies?

For example, many people are horribly against heroin but support morphine? They are 99.9% exactly the same. Heroin is actually still used in the UK as a pain killer.

People say pot is a gateway drug? Shouldn’t cigarettes actually be the gateway drug since most people start with them before they smoke pot?

How people automatically think if you do drugs you are a failure at life, and fail to recognize the facts that MANY prominent people in society use drugs. Sigmund Freud and even president Grover Cleveland enjoyed cocaine.

What about when you are taking the pain killers your doctor prescribed you, they are opiates, same family as heroin.

How about people who are addicted to food? I’ve seen that destroy peoples lives worse then most drugs could ever do in a life time. All because of people who dont know the term moderation cant control themselves the rest of the world has to deal with it.

And finally how the war on drugs is a complete sham, and is actually doing more harm then good. People arrested for simple possesion of marijuana doing more jail time then rapists? Violent criminals being let out of jail because of overcrowding so we can throw away the person who was minding his own business smoking a joint?

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Why cant they just tell people the truth, and let them make their own informed decision? I’m sick of the government telling me what I can and cant do, when they have little to no idea about what they are creating laws against. All they know is that if they ban this, they get more money.. ban that, even more money.

And we all know how safe alcohol is…
To BananaBlitz: Actually, if you were not so ignorant, you would know that heroin is DiacetylMORPHINE, which is… morphine, just a different form. Heroin does no more damage then any other opiate. This is exactly the lies people believe that caused me to ask the question.

Now, if you are talking about damage from needles, and the diseases they can spread then I understand, but needles are NOT a drug.

Best answer:

Answer by dr.kwack
It’s the drug “war” which is ironically supposed to enlighten kids as a way to stop them from using. All it seems to do though is misinform people and demonize drugs. The drug laws are ridiculous though and I’m sick of these stupid war on concepts that we keep on having.

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