Ethical consumption and drugs (1 Viewer)

[Wobbler]

Do you boycott Coke, Nike and Mc Donald's but still buy drugs? Do you not think the drug industry is pretty dodgy?

Interested on hearing people's views.

For what it's worth my opinion goes something like this..

If Mc Donald's had a monopoly on food - I'd still buy food. If there was an ethical way for me to buy drugs, I'd go down that route.

It's not my fucking fault their illegal.

 

[maims bond]

I'd broadly be of the same opinion. sniff...

I'm thinking of some way to link this to prostitution, but i'm just too stoned maaaan.

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

If anyone needs any stuff, I know a guy.

 

[Wobbler]

I'd broadly be of the same opinion. sniff...

It's easy for me, since I'm not much of an ethical consumer.

Interested in hearing Broken Arm's views.

 

[jane]

What do you mean by the 'drugs industry'?

The pharmaceutical industry is extremely dodgy to a crazy degree.

Drugs both legal and illegal are bad fucking news most of the time.

Fuck drugs and people who use them. Fuck them hard in the ass.

 

[broken arm]

It's easy for me, since I'm not much of an ethical consumer.

Interested in hearing Broken Arm's views.

Interesting question and have thought about it quite a bit over the years but I don't think I would have anything more detailed/informed to say on it than anyone else. My position will be fragmented by a moral ambiguity (although I'm much less likely to have to consider my position on it these days - if you know what I mean)

my short answer is that there isn't an ethical international drugs trade (leaving aside home grown weed etc). When looking at specific drugs on the production side alone any other industry would have serious problems if judged along certain impacts/factors (social harm, environmental damage, financial structure) it would have a serious difficulty in operating/trading.

On the other hand the reality of drug supply and demand chains are massively more complex and it's not really possible to make proper non-emotive comparisons between illegal drugs and other industries.

suffice to say there is no fair-trade cocaine yet.

 

[HMD]

grow your own, then there's no ethical issues.

it's easy to grow poppies indoors.

 

[maims bond]

Drugs both legal and illegal are bad fucking news most of the time.

I don't think you realise the gravity of that statement. If Chisty of Aslan wasn't strung out on Herodin, would he have been able to write 'Crazy World'? Would he?

 

[maims bond]

grow your own, thrn there's no ethical issues.

it's easy to grow poppies indoors.

Did you also hear the story, i think before xmas, that the Gards were looking into aerial imagery to detect grow operations in houses? No one is safe.

 

[HMD]

Did you also hear the story, i think before xmas, that the Gards were looking into aerial imagery to detect grow operations in houses? No one is safe.

are they looking for unusually hot roofs?

 

[jane]

I don't think you realise the gravity of that statement. If Chisty of Aslan wasn't strung out on Herodin, would he have been able to write 'Crazy World'? Would he?

You're right. I should be ashamed of myself.

Someone hand me something that will shield me from my own shame, something that will protect me in this crazy world.

 

[Froog]

i'd say the yolk business is ethical enough, no farmers getting buttfucked, just lads in labs making a fortune in holland. couple of shootings here and there, but not much. not much negative social impact either.

 

[Moods For Mallards]

i'd say the yolk business is ethical enough, no farmers getting buttfucked, just lads in labs making a fortune in holland. couple of shootings here and there, but not much. not much negative social impact either.

But the distribution and retail is controlled by the same people who are involved in every other illegal drug. You can't break this down on a drug-by-drug basis.

 

[Bold Lump]

Thankfully I've been able to get a steady supply of organically grown weed sourced from local producers. Best part of all it's a far superior product. If that supply ever dried up though I'd be back to the traditional, (more) criminal and violence breeding distribution chains. Until the product gets too shit, with silica spraying etc.

 

[egg_]

I'm sure you can grow coca at home, too, seeing as most indoor plants are tropical. I dunno how you'd get started though - not like you can just buy seeds in a shop like you can for weed or poppies

 

[Cormcolash]

Drugs are sound. So are paramilitaries. Good bunch of lads.

 

[nooleen]

i don't use drugs, or petrol, or plastic, or paper, or any kind of chemicals, or any food that wasn't grown within a 5 mile radius, because i'm just that ethically aware. oh wait no.

 

[тхеодоре кацзынски]

Fuck drugs and people who use them.

you cant be serious surely?

Did you also hear the story, i think before xmas, that the Gards were looking into aerial imagery to detect grow operations in houses? No one is safe.

they not got better things to be doing?im not expecting them to turn round and legalise it tomorrow but surely they could turn a blind eye to someone growing in their house for personal use?they're not harming anybody and they're not giving money to criminals who are busy blowing each other and innocent by-standers away.

 

[Wobbler]

im not expecting them to turn round and legalise it tomorrow.

It's not the Gards who are making them illegal. It's not even really the politicians, it's us the public, the proles who either don't want them legalised or don't care enough. In fairness the cops are just doing their job.

they're not harming anybody and they're not giving money to criminals who are busy blowing each other and innocent by-standers away.

By the same token, surely drugs should be legalised. I know that's what you (and me) would like to see but if you buy into conventional wisdom, the cops cannot turn a blind eye to that.

I'm not sure if I've made myself clear.

 

[тхеодоре кацзынски]

you make too much sense wobbler...you could have just said "yeah,fuck da polis"