Party Pills, the reason certain parties will never ever have my vote
Although there are in fact many things about certain parties, that draw me to them, 20+ years of working with young people and most of my childhood growing up with an addicted parent means their views on drugs legal or otherwise, completely writes them off for me. I know that saying that, possibly wont go down to well, but I feel it needs to be said.
Last year we saw first hand the suffering of family members waiting for weeks not knowing if their child would live or die because of party pills. The fact this kid is alive is more miracle than anything else. What was happening in their body because of these pills was shocking and scary and after the threat of death had passed, they still had to wait hearts in mouths, to know if their child had suffered irreversible brain damage. They weren’t the only parents in that hospital, going thru that same watch, hoping for life and not death. The fact that no reported death has occurred so far is down to pure luck and the amazing skills of medical professionals, who fight to the bitter end, to save these kids lives. I know how painful it was for us to watch the heartache they went through, I cant imagine what it was like to be them.
I am opposed to party pills on so many levels
1: Why the hell do we want to send to our kids, the message that you need to have drugs to have fun. I mean what are we doing. I think we’ve all gone mad. I watch with absolute disgust, the media’s take on this issue. Poor bleeding hearts, we’ve taken our kids drugs away. How bad of our Government and other parties, taking these kids fun away from them. Its just so screwed up, I mean we push for healthy food to be sold in schools and then turn around and back pills that are anything but healthy. Anything society condones as ok gives to our kids exactly that message.. that drug taking is ok. We sell these things in almost every major shopping mall. We are saying legal drugs is ok, these are the ones we condone as safe. But we still give a very clear message.. we live in a world where you have to take stuff to help you have fun. BTW don’t even start me on alcohol.
2: It is absolute crap to say, that stopping these things will cause kids to go on meth, give me a bucket please. Am I saying none will/might… no i’m not, but to use the scare tactic of every kid going on meth is just stupid and untrue. What is more true, is that with legal drugs being sold in every mall etc, far more kids were exposed to drug use. There will always be kids who search it out, and then there will be opportunists, who’ll try it if its there, and wont if its not. To ban these things instantly takes them out of the reach of the masses. It actually makes our kids safer.
3: There is already a black market out there. Even with its legal status, there are people producing them and adding ectasy to them among other things. Dance parties and other places where these things are in ready supply are dangerous places. Kids under the influence of both pills and alcohol are not in the place to take the notice they need to, to check the pills they are taking. They get past around and kids swallow them and have no idea what they just swallowed. Banning them, making them illegal, will actually make our kids safer, because now our police can actually do something.
4: For years we have warned our kids against the drug rape pills. We tell them to buy their own drinks, to never put them down and yet with the introduction of the pill culture, we see kids taking pills willy nilly of friends and strangers alike. How safe are our kids now I ask you. Teenagers dont think, they never think it will happen to them. They dont weigh up the risks first, they just go for it.
5: The party pill guy, sorry cant remember his name, said on the news one night, that these things are totally safe, so long as they are not taken with alcohol and you take the recommended dose. So tell me how many teenagers you know, who will not take them with alcohol. Teenagers who under the influence will only stop at the recommended dose.
6: As to regulation, we already have regulations on alcohol, how effective are they in curbing and managing youth cultures approach to drinking. How effective are they in managing the risks to our young people…… exactly… I rest my case. Hell if prohibition doesn’t work, why ban any drug. Lets regulate them all. Manufacture our own P and meth, wouldn’t that be safer and why not cocaine and heroin, lets go the whole 9 yards. Sell them in our own little drug shops, I mean we already have the infrastructure, shops trafficking oh sorry I meant to say retailing drugs already. We’d just increase their range, and no more gang problem. See its all solved, lets teach kids how to get high safely, isn’t that what any society wants and needs.
I am glad that they have been banned and saddened that parties I might have supported, I now could simply never ever support.
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