Drug Addiction: Drug Addiction Facts

Question: When drug addiction is legalized, how it will affect evolution of mankind?

(Posted by: BuddhaFan on 2009-09-08 01:36:23)

Drugs like Heroin, Cocaine, Marijuana, DMT, Morphine, LSD etc. (Remember , alcohol is a foreign substance for human body and its not required by it - thats what medical science says, so alcohol is like cocaine, heroine etc.) It is known that some large groups of people have become addicts to alcohol who have had a long ancestry to alcoholism. Their offspring are easily sucked into the alcohol dependency. And those who havn't , can easily resist the habit. So if large population of humans start consuming illegal drugs which modify behavior , attitude, morality and common sense , then what kind of human beings are expected to be born. Probably tolerant strains or those who cannot live without drugs right from infancy like a child needing milk?

Posted by: dynollis on 2009-09-08, 01:42:40

I think a lot of people would die if it was just..legalized. Broken families, broken hearts, the whole bit. In Canada they did a research project where they had a clinic where addicts would go and get clean drugs, clean needles, and be supervised by a medical staff. There were like 3,000 that went and only 700 died in a three year period. Some people quit, some didn't. I think it's feasible...but only in the right scenario. I mean some people wouldn't do them even if they were legal. I, for instance, would not do heroin. I know first hand what it does, and I don't like it. I don't need a law to tell me that, only common sense.

Posted by: Helena on 2009-09-08, 01:39:14

No 1 it WONT be legalized. Because drugs are harmful to the body, and you'd have to be a idiot to want it. It wont affect evolution, because evolution doesn't exist. Simple

Posted by: Blaine H on 2009-09-08, 01:39:50

It would take millions of years and billions of people to do even the smallest effect. I highly doubt that it will do anything and if it does it might just make people immune to the effects that drugs give.

Posted by: Happy Penguin on 2009-09-08, 01:41:18

Probably very little - if possibly to very very slowly weed out those with addictive personalities. To be fair though, the drugs are illegal, not the act of addiction, and secondly, if you want any of those you can get them, and plenty of people are already addicted - illegal or otherwise, so I don't really see it being an issue.

Posted by: Dionyus on 2009-09-08, 01:41:39

It's very likely that plants like hallucinogenic mushrooms and cannabis played a key role in the evolution of human consciousness.

Posted by: MussMan on 2009-09-08, 01:44:15

Several Flaws: (1) The evolution of humanity has been stunted for years now, due to mass propaganda campaigns and false hope in a system that has failed them, etc. (2) Marijuana and LSD are not addictive at all, never have been, and never will be, unless they are laced with something like, I don't know, nicotine... (3) Drug addiction is already legalized, but it's the corporate drugs like tobacco and the pharmicudical drugs, so I fail to see your point, besides Morphine is legal, but it's prescribtion based, you know. Get your facts straight, sucka. Besides, those drugs would never become legal for one reason or another, with the possible exeption (decades from now) of marijuana and maybe LSD/ shrooms (highly doubt it). The rest have NO benefit to society, though.

Posted by: chrispy on 2009-09-08, 01:46:11

I am going to give you one of those "stupid " answers. I am a recovering addict, and I am STILL and addict. Drug addiction is NOT illegal, but possessing drugs without a license, and using drugs without a prescription is illegal. This will remain illegal because the government has cornered the market on controlled substances and narcotics.

Posted by: Jane on 2009-09-08, 01:47:04

Many of the drugs you mention are in fact on prescription around the world today! The facts are that it's the governments way of getting people addicted to prescription meds so as to boost the big pharmaceutical companies, who are arm in arm with the the Govt. We have already seen the disastrous effects that legal drugs have had on the population and their offspring, so no surprises there. As for the illegal S*it making it's way into our children's school yards, I suspect like always we have to keep our eyes and ears open, and take some responsibility ourselves as to how we want to combat the scourge.

Posted by: socialdeevolution on 2009-09-08, 01:49:42

Humans have been doing drugs since there were humans. I don't expect they should have any impact on evolution, since they don't actively manipulate our genetics. Although they can have the passive effects of mutating our genes, this however is random. Given that most drug addicts produce offspring before they die, there really shouldn't be much other impact. Unless, of course, you believe Timmothy Leary. Interesting stuff but seems kind of out there and not very scientific.

Posted by: We Don't Have the Facilities on 2009-09-08, 01:54:58

No difference because people are taken them regardless.

Posted by: net master on 2009-09-08, 21:16:40

Wrong section to ask. but in short, other than pissing away some genes, and slowly over a few hundred years creating a chemical tolerance to these things. of course there could be the possible mutations effects. the only one likely to be legalized anywhere in the near future is Marijuana. and that has less negative effects than smoking

Posted by: Felix on 2009-09-09, 00:43:36

Well first of all LSD and DMT are not addictive. Just because drugs are illegal doesn't really stop people from doing them. For instance, in SF where weed is illegal more people per capita smoke than in amsterdam. If all of these drugs become legal we will see a reduction in prison inmates, overdoes, and crime. Most drugs are not particularly dangerous and do not cause crime. It is the ilegality of these drugs that makes them dangerous (dirty cuts, differing potency, ect) and causes crime (anything in the hands of criminals causes crime).

Posted by: Hal on 2009-09-09, 11:26:24

The only drug on your list that WILL be legalized is marijuana. Others that have the possibility of being legalized are LSD and cocaine. It wont effect the evolution of man kind. Marijuana was completely legal up until the thirties. We have been smoking it for thousands of years. Cocaine has also been legal for a very long time as well. Indians in mexico would chew cocaine leaves. In world war 2 the officers would give the soldiers cocaine. Make them more energetic. The de evolution of man kind is caused by people with low IQ's mating and having eight kids, when people with high IQ's only having a few. And the people who say its wrong are then likely to believe creationism. Because they are willing to believe someone who has more power then themselves. They don't even think evolution is happening. helene: case and point