Should performance-enhancing drugs be legal?
Substances like Ritalin are highly restricted, but should they be available to buy over the counter?
If not, then why does the government allow the unrestricted sale of other performance-enhancing drugs, such as caffeine and nicotine?
>NB4 dude weed lmao
Weedfags gtfo, nobody likes you parasites.
NO
The world is productive enough.
imagine thinking ritalin is performance enhancing.
> China hit the bottom and is digging even deeper
> Africa and South America are on the brink of starvation
> Japan and the West are on the verge of economic collapse.
yeah totally productive enough....
Studies prove that Ritalin can improve concentration for time periods ranging from three to six hours.
Only weed should be legal.
>Weedfags gtfo, nobody likes you parasites.
Good thing I don't care what you think of me, faggot; you think performance enhancement can come without a price - other than the cost of pills.
DUDE WEED LMAO
Fuck you, OP
OP is a faggot
>Should performance-enhancing drugs be legal?
No, because the healthcare system (aka the taxpayers) has to deal with the fallout.
Why should weed be legal?
Whereas Ritalin increases produtivity, weed is like alcohol: a drug used for relaxing.
There is no compelling reason as to why weed should be legalised. Its legalisation will not increase global productivity. As a matter of fact it will decrease it. Also weed stinks.
>implying healthcare systems don't have to deal with the fallout of alcohol and nicotine
ban Alcohol and make Ritalin legal instead
>Why should weed be legal?
I like it. It's less harmful than alcohol. I could go on.
>Whereas Ritalin increases produtivity
You assume productivity is beneficial. We work hard enough.
>weed is like alcohol: a drug used for relaxing.
No argument here.
>There is no compelling reason as to why weed should be legalised.
Maybe not compelling to you, or you haven't looked.
>Its legalisation will not increase global productivity.
There's that word again.
>As a matter of fact it will decrease it.
Opinion
>Also weed stinks.
So does pussy sometimes. I love both.
Open your mind, OP. There are more important things in life than being productive. Slow down and take life in for a little while. Buy some excellent weed, mushrooms and LSD and explore your perspective and your mind. It's enlightening.
>I like something therefore it should be legal
Yeah I'd love to have my own private nuclear warheads but I don't think that should be legal. Your argument is retarded.
>You assume productivity is beneficial
Would you rather live in a third world shithole and get eaten by your neighbour?
>there are more important things in life than being productive
like what? Think about it. Our life purpose is to survive and conquer the universe. We can't do that if we allow ourselves to slack out and smoke weed. We should improve the human body with science. Science is the torch that lights up the darkness of night. Ritaline can help us achieve our life purpose. Weed can not.
>Yeah I'd love to have my own private nuclear warheads but I don't think that should be legal.
I can't kill a city with weed. Your argument is retarded.
>Would you rather live in a third world shithole and get eaten by your neighbour?
You assume it has to be a contest.
>Our life purpose is to survive and conquer the universe.
This is an opinion. Some people believe their life purpose is to worship a divine being. Some people think their life purpose is exploration or the pursuit of scientific truth. What you want is your opinion, not fact. It is a perspective.
>We can't do that if we allow ourselves to slack out and smoke weed.
Fine with me. I'm happier growing food and building things.
>We should improve the human body with science. Science is the torch that lights up the darkness of night.
Cocaine uses science, too.
>Ritaline can help us achieve our life purpose. Weed can not.
Our life purposes are not in line with each other.
You're thinking from an individualistic point of view.
I'm thinking about the future of humanity as a collective. If we allow weed to circulate freely, people will use it as a means of escaping the harshness of reality.
We must not allow this to happen. People must learn that suffering is also what makes us human. Attempting to withdraw suffering through any means, be it alcohol, weed or other forms of escapism is inherently evil since it will annihilate our human nature.
Human life is suffering, but that's what makes it worth living. It's what makes these small moments of happiness, like your first kiss, your first child, even more enjoyable. We hate to admit it but we crave difficulty. It's what we're made for: overcoming obstacles. If we cocoon ourselves in a warped reality where suffering is non-existent, we will never enjoy the small pleasures of life anymore.
Let us reject escapism and round ourselves in reality.
all drugs should be legal
bumperino
>Yeah I'd love to have my own private nuclear warheads but I don't think that should be legal.
homo OP better negociate for a noife first, we'll discuss them nukes later
I am jealous of french firearm legislation.
Vive la République.
>adderall used in faggy esports
>doping used in olympics
>roids used by Evans to be Captain America
They are already legal user. You just don't know it.
Just because its use is widespread doesn't mean it's an over-the-counter drug (which it isn't by the way).
> (You)
>I am jealous of french firearm legislation.
>Vive la République.
The thing is, we have the same laws than you reguarding guns or edgy stuff, but nobody to enforce them. And yeap we have AKs. Stay mad and get rekt by PC Ahmed boy
Nah dude you guys can actually own handguns and 30 round chargers. Here's it's basically forbidden.
French legislation is much looser than Brit legislation.
>If not, then why does the government allow the unrestricted sale of other performance-enhancing drugs, such as caffeine and nicotine?
You are comparing much stronger drugs to natural substances found in coffee and tobacco.
It's like arguing whether the government should restrict hunting rifles vs. personal nuclear weapons capable of taking out an entire city.
Speed freak cope
I got some meth if you want
> (You)
>Nah dude you guys can actually own handguns and 30 round chargers. Here's it's basically forbidden.
>French legislation is much looser than Brit legislation.
If you need a gun in europe you really should avoid the legal way. It may be easyer in France or Italy than Central London, but as soon as you sign the paperwork you are kinda fucked.
As an anglo you should know to overcome.
Fuck the police
Sad but true.
all drugs should be legal in a similar context
you take the shit out of the black market, you take the black market out of the shit
when you punish people for needing to get help, they wont stop needing it, theyll just stop getting it
Eh doesn't really phase me either way. Can always find a dodgy doctor to prescribe what you want or use black market. Here you can buy a box of 30x10mg Ritalin for R250-R500 on the black market depending on who you get from.
No, the entire point of sport is to compete at ones peak natural ability.
If we're gonna de-schedule a functional upper why the fuck would we go with methylphenidate; dextroamphetamine is infinitely superior.
But really all psychoactive substance prohibition is retarded and has always been much more connected to political power structures than public health.
Ok so can I get legal OTC cocaine and ephedrine and khat? What about legalizing codeine and morphine? All of the above occur naturally in plants. I'll grant you that caffeine is much weaker than restricted stimulants, but that argument doesn't work very well with nicotine considering it's addiction liability is greater than or equal to heroin.
Sport is not the only activity that can be enhanced
>Ritaline can help us achieve our life purpose. Weed can not.
Pervitin is admittedly stronger than Ritalin, but they are both stimulants. Nazis succumbed to inflexible decision making when faced with Russians. Would you rather grind away in an inefficient matter, because you think more grinding means more productivity?
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