Ok, first of all, your comparing a rugby league player having a sneaky line of coke to an ice addict. So already you are way out of context.
I agree, ice is a really terrible, terrible drug, and its epademic in australia is an aweful problem. Its by far and away the worst drug created thus far.
As for comparing ice to alcohol, lets look at it this way; when someone is off their head on ice they are more then likely a useless mess incapable of most things. It is the addiction to the drug and the cost of the drug that 'forces them' to rob and steal. However im sure that this is usually done when they have none of the drug, and are therefore no longer high. This would allow them to actually be capable of this.
However, it is WHEN people who drink are actually drunk that the bad shit happens. This is when a drunk guy king hits another guy and kills him just because the guy looked at him. Or when the drunk husband beats his wife or kids. Or when he gets behind the wheel of a car and crashes into oncoming traffic and kills innocent people, yet survives as a lot of drunks do in these situations.
How many lives and families have been destroyed due to alcohol addiction??? My wife is a nurse, and my best mate and his wife are nurses, and i also have several other friends who are nurses, so dont try and argue that this is not an issue in society.
Do you remember prohabition of alcohol in america???? Holy shit, that was an absolute shitstorm!!!!!
Alcohol abbuse, unlike drug abuse, is tolerated because we are so used to it!! Its in every day life. There is a pub on every second corner in australia, and people are beligerantly out of control, drunk, every single night of the week. Yet VB is the sponsor of our NRL australian team and state of origin!!
While im at it, how about we add ciggarettes to this discussion. In 2005 15,000 people died in australia from smoking related illnesses. It causes a massive strain on our health system every year. Yet people dont perceive it as a drug because theyre so used to it.
Drugs, in more herbal forms, have been used by shamans and witchdoctors for millenia. They are an integral part of ceremonies in many cultures. Marijuana is even prescribed by doctors now due to its medicinal value. But this is probably only because the government has learnt that they can tax it. Just like they do alcohol and tobacco. Can you imagine how much revenue the australian government makes of alcohol and tobacco each year? We would be broke if these drugs were illegal and they could not make a massive profit from them.
I find it interesting how people that have never tried drugs think they are experts and think that anyone who takes drugs is a junkie. If you put 100 people in one room with a bag of ecstacy and another 100 people in another room with unlimited alcohol, i 100% garauntee that you would have barely any, if any issues in the ecstacy room, and countless issues in the drunks room!!! You wouldnt even need security in the ecstacy room. Yet every single pub is required by law to have security just so that they can control the fucking stupid shit drunks do!!!
In closing, all things should be done in moderation. Alcohol and drugs, maybe even religion (im pointing my finger at you hoppa). Drugs like ice create countless problems in society, but so does alcohol. You simply can not deny this. So dont act like your better then someone who has an occasional line of coke, just because the drug you choose to consume every night after a long day at work is legal. Dont be an absolute hypocrite!!
