Canada Is Broken

[jazz]

Well Portland tried all this hug a druggie stuff years before Vancouver, lets hear from someone there how it all went down.

Oh my...

[foragefarmer]

GoalieGuy

Thank you for sharing a very personal story, it took courage on your part to put it out for the public to read.

Not sure how drug addiction can only be a Left issue or even be political.

Some of you should keep this in mind as GoalieGuy stated with Fentanyl it only takes one pill one time and your hooked. That's how powerful it is.

Maybe do a little reading and research before coming on Agriville all high and mighty.

Again thank you GoalGuy and I hope your brother in law stays clean and sober.

[Sheepwheat]

GoalieGuy

Thank you for sharing a very personal story, it took courage on your part to put it out for the public to read.

Not sure how drug addiction can only be a Left issue or even be political.

Some of you should keep this in mind as GoalieGuy stated with Fentanyl it only takes one pill one time and your hooked. That's how powerful it is.

Maybe do a little reading and research before coming on Agriville all high and mighty.

Again thank you GoalGuy and I hope your brother in law stays clean and sober.

So don’t take the bloody pill? Raise your kids so they have no “need” for a pill, because they have a positive attitude, positive friends, and a faith in something other than humanity or themselves.

So they don’t take the pill, smoke that joint, or feel supposed “peer pressure” to conform. Kids who are healthy in their own skin won’t take the pill from some idiot who pressures them to. Actually, kids who have a healthy upbringing, won’t even put themselves in positions where they would hang out or be part of idiotic pill pushing groups.

It’s called saying no. Parents have seemed to forgotten how to say no. Nowadays, with everything, it’s,”well kids will be kids, there nothing you can do”. Excuse me. There is.

And. Again. How many genders are there? Just the number please. Thanks.

[agstar77]

Does society not have any responsibilities to address any of the root causes of people resorting to substances in the first place?
Obviously, criminalizing use will not /has not accomplished anything.
The war on production and distribution has been a failure, although the reasons for that failure are debatable.

Same reason it not work for alcohol.

[agstar77]

So don’t take the bloody pill? Raise your kids so they have no “need” for a pill, because they have a positive attitude, positive friends, and a faith in something other than humanity or themselves.

So they don’t take the pill, smoke that joint, or feel supposed “peer pressure” to conform. Kids who are healthy in their own skin won’t take the pill from some idiot who pressures them to. Actually, kids who have a healthy upbringing, won’t even put themselves in positions where they would hang out or be part of idiotic pill pushing groups.

It’s called saying no. Parents have seemed to forgotten how to say no. Nowadays, with everything, it’s,”well kids will be kids, there nothing you can do”. Excuse me. There is.

And. Again. How many genders are there? Just the number please. Thanks.

I am glad your branded kids are perfect and pure.

[blackpowder]

"There but for the grace of God go I"
"The weak shall perish"

Make up your minds you bunch of tough guys.
Compassion or understanding. Or realism?
Goalie is right. Sheep is not wrong.
I think rigidity and ignorance enemies of all. Naivety kinda running amok here. Some are on some pretty high horses.
My girlfriend grew up in Ft Crack before and during the last big change. Early grave for any substance abuser.
Any body here had an abusive alcoholic for a parent in a two parent home?
She's sad but unsympathetic.
People fleeing the Island for the prairies why?
More questions than answers I know.
But so often the loudest the most uninformed.
Prohibition won't help any more than free coke. Or gun free zones baha.
Maybe a chain gang in the muskeg for a 20 year stint for dealers all that's left. I know, that won't be inclusive. Systemically racist actually. Sorry.
Trauma and addiction have always been around. Wailing and navel gazing, the newest fad, won't help.

[AlbertaFarmer5]

Same reason it not work for alcohol.

I wasn't aware that society had ever tried addressing the root causes of alcohol abuse, can you enlighten me?
We tried banning it, we tried regulating it, we tried only selling it through the government, we tried educating about the risks.

But did we ever attempt to solve the depression, and anxiety, and a myriad of other mental and social issues that lead people to abuse alcohol as a solution?

[Sheepwheat]

I am glad your branded kids are perfect and pure.

No one is perfect and pure. Including me, including you. But there are things you can do to prevent a lot of societies ills. Why is it such a struggle to answer such a simple question.

[AlbertaFarmer5]

No one is perfect and pure. Including me, including you. But there are things you can do to prevent a lot of societies ills. Why is it such a struggle to answer such a simple question.

The left really struggles with the concept of personal responsibility. Everything is someone else's fault, and only the state can fix it for them, preferably by blaming someone else and also making them pay for it.

[sumdumguy]

[QUOTE=foragefarmer;559900]GoalieGuy

Some of you should keep this in mind as GoalieGuy stated with Fentanyl it only takes one pill one time and your hooked. That's how powerful it is.

Enlighten me - people are prescribed fentanyl. Are all of them drug addicts?