Flutterguy said:
Because your experiences have lead you to have these beliefs. What is the point in snowboarding? what is the point in video-games? What is the point in Television? Pleasure.
Now yes a certain element of pain is present in drugs. However it is not there initially, it builds up with continued use. Just as the pleasure gets lessened with use. It is something done on occasion. It is the people who do not realize the increased pain, the people who run from suicidal tendencies only to self-harm with drugs, these are the stories the news will air. It will be easier for these people to blame drugs then their own rotten luck, so that is what they do.
I don't buy it at all.
Does snowboarding, videogames, television or anything like that (bikes, horse riding, volleyball, music, you name it) immediately causes chemical alterations/damage to your body? Answer: NO.
Do drugs immediately cause chemical alterations/damage to your body? YES.
It really would take me hours of constant gaming, or a very unlucky or careless bike incident, or an extremely loud music volume, to get some damage from such hobbies.
It just takes me doing drugs to take damage from that "hobby".
I do believe a person who willingly takes drugs is a person who doesn't understand neurobiology. Or a person who doesn't have respect for their body.