This essay presents the private opinion of the author and being such does not represent any particular institution or company.

Harmless drug or man-plant

Out there on Internet in public forums occasionally one can find opinions stating some drugs are HARMLESS. Is it so really?

The mildest consequences of continuous drug abuse

The common error spread freely in public says that drugs are actually just a pleasant amusement, and some used drugs are quite harmless. But here are the mildest results of drug usage:

1. Physical deterioration and weakening of vital body organs and the organism in whole;
2. De-motivation about previous interests;
3. Connection to drug addict community and avoiding any previous social contacts;
4. Appearing or enlargement of psychotic states such as feeling of being chased or in danger;
5. Strong and irresistible wish to buy drug again and consume it.

Basically these are the consequences of "mild" drugs.

"Safe" drugs are turning you into a plant

The main propagator of so called harmless drugs are the rumors of marihuana as a harmless drug.

Marihuana has some similarities to common smoking. That similarity and the classification into mild drugs has giving this drug the reputation of being safe.

Marihuana is the representative of Cannabis type of psychoactive substances (hard drug hashish also belongs to the same group). It is classified as mild hallucination substance, because the consumer is capable of willingly preserve the control over drug amount consumed during usage, and because the pharmaceutical effect is shorter than with hard drugs.

Enjoing marihuana in company, or

the first time is something that comes before the second time

Adolescents can perceive marihuana as a pleasant community drug because they consume it very often in company. Craving for social acceptance and understanding, teared apart with problems and being among their own age-mates,with the help of marihuana they relax by means of common hallucination, feeling united together as one.The problem is however after these experiences they feel the spontaneous wish to repeat this feeling again, this time "the last time for sure". After which comes another one, and another one, and so on...

The prolonged usage of marihuana

Continuous and prolonged using of marihuana brings the following:

Deterioration of learning and memorizing capabilities;

 

Deterioration of motor coordination:

sometime musicians expect bigger results, but because of less movement coordination their technical playing capabilities actually fail

 

Occasional panic reactions;

psychotic states are the pay the marihuana addict pays to his master - drug.

 

Occasional hallucinations;

 

De-motivation

ceasing interest for school, job, society, family, love.

 

Degradation of physical body functions.

deterioration of physical functions of vital organs and important life supporting regulations mechanisms in the organism.

Marihuana - see how it nicely kills

The statistics of World Health Organization shows every fifth marihuana addict switches to hard drugs after some time.

Marihuana contains the poisoning substance THC that physically and psychologically damages the human's organism. THC is the same substance that is present in the hard drug hashish. There are indications that same poison used by any marihuana addict is investigated worldwide for it's war implementations - as specific war gas.

Marihuana has double cancer effect than the biggest cancer carrier today - tobacco.

Unfortunately this dangerous list is not finished: before marihuana comes into drug addict hands, often the very dangerous and hard hallucination drug PCP is added to marihuana, so the drug addict uses the drug mixture instead of pure marihuana. PCP causes worse consequences for the consumer because it is dangerous and hard drug which makes hard influences to the psychic and physical sides of human body, even leading to the acts of self hearting or murder. That is usually not meant under the common phrase of marihuana as a "mild drug"!

While schools are in a deep sleep

It is not known to me that any school in Serbia up to now has any serious lesson dealing with the prevention of drug abuse. I have not heard that the other countries are radically better then in Serbia as well. The reason why countries worldwide are refusing to inform their children of drug addiction consequences is not known to me in this moment.

It would be very interesting if some independent investigation would suggest an answer where this massive disinterest of countries comes from.

Consequences of Hard drugs abuse

1. Serous psychic deceases;
2. Hard deceases of vital organs in body with drop of immunity and all other regulatory mechanisms;
3. Complete behaviour change;
4. Psychic dependency on drugs;
5. Physical dependency on drugs;
6. Criminal;
7. Death.

Who is the common drug victim

• Immature, jung person;
• Person inclined to adventures and eager to feel sensations;
• Educated person looking forward to some extraordinary life truths conceiving;
• sect members that wish to pay any price for spiritual leverage;
• Person feeling uncertainty;
• Psychically disturbed persons;
• Highly emotional persons, artists.

And what if somebody really tries it just once?

First time nobody guarantees there would not be another time! Anyway, if a drug consumer for the fist time is not served with lethal dose, and if the drug is with no dangerous additions (a lot of ifs!), then there is the last check: your genetic material is on the test!

Some people have not enough quantity of certain hormones vitally important for human body process equilibrium. If such a person consumes drug, he can become "naturally" addicted because drug supplies much better feeling for some time, but it also binds the person to the dangerous substance with all the tragic consequences coming from it.

There are indications certain people are genetically inclined to drug addiction.

If any of these persons consumes drug even for the first time, the constant binding to that drug is much more probable then with other people.

Instead of conclusion - the vicious opiate circle

Opiates (opium, morphine, heroin) are hard drugs, causing not only the psychical but also physical addiction.

One of the features which makes these drugs additionally deadly is the tolerance appearance during multiple consummations. That means in time body adapts to these poisons, so the nice effects of these drugs are diminishing, but abstinent crises are staying! That way drug addict which originally started to take opiates because of their seaming nice effect, looses that feel in time, but he has to take the drug anyway because he would be finding himself in the unbearable physical and psychical abstinent crises otherwise.

That way victim is caught like a fly in the web. The vicious opiate circle is waiting for the next "experimenter". And there are always naive people around, aren't they?

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Literature:

Др Стеван П. Петровић: "Drugs and Human Behaviour"