"Legalize! Do not criticize! Legalize, and I will advertise!" - sang once about marijuana legendary Peter Tosh, one of the most popular artists reggae. In 1987 he was shot, and Tosh did not know that many States followed his advice...


"PARK ON THE NEEDLE"

Today "light" drugs are allowed in the Netherlands (which has made Amsterdam the official capital of tourism), in some States (formally exclusively for medical reasons, but actually get this recipe is not difficult: it is enough to complain of dizziness, insomnia and other diseases, "to facilitate" which is possible due to the healing grass). Policy of different countries seriously think that the only way to stop the growth of drug addiction is to make drugs legal. Only light, of course. After all the sad experience of support of heroin addicts in Europe already have.

In the late eighties, the Swiss authorities decided on a risky experiment: in Zurich was organized by the Park, where addicts could openly using heroin. Soon this place began to name not differently, as "the Park on the needle": health workers gave the visitors a sterile syringes provided emergency assistance, conducted edifying conversation and offered hospitalization. But...from month to month the number of those in need of urgent medical treatment grew rapidly. On the territory of the Park have been registered dozens of deaths from overdose, and finally in the early nineties it was closed.

SELLERS "MIRACLES"

Poklonnikami substances will probably argue: why shouldn all in one heap? Because grass is not a drug! And so consider not only consumers, but some pundits. Healing properties of hemp written a lot, and there is scientific evidence, as she positively affects the vessels, calms nerves, relieves migraine attacks. To argue with that no one is going: it's all in the numbers. Another problem: when "medicine" has a pleasant effect on the psyche, it is difficult to refuse. Here then is born dependence, which, according to many experts, sooner or later leads to the "heavy" and now it is not legal drugs.

There is another way. People start looking officially authorized replacement and...get to a psychiatrist. "The good doctor" writes cherished prescription tranquilizers, stimulants, antidepressants. Even when you can easily do without drug therapy.

Fortunately, the doctors are not sin: we often pills for insomnia is not questioned - you will first need to lie in the hospital, and it would agree not every countryman: the memory of punitive psychiatry is stored on a subconscious level. But in the West, especially in the States, doctors have great hopes for "magic" pills. And write them literally on any occasion: learning difficulties, teen aggression, mild depression, stress, hot temper, mood swings - the list can be continued endlessly. You have no money or time on psychotherapy - and it is not necessary miracles pharmacology will do everything for you.

Richard Hughes and Robert brain in his book "Tranquilitate America" write: "Psychotropic drugs dull anxiety, stress, but they also "dull" and life itself. These pills "freeze" not only pain, but also the mind."

The fact that they are addictive, have side effects, and long-term use destroy the personality, today there is no doubt in anybody - neither the experts nor the consumers. Still, the temptation to drown the little questions (or simply bored) portion wonderful tablets extremely high. In many countries, about 70% of citizens from time to time resort to the help of psychotropic drugs. And I don't see anything wrong!

The postulate "is allowed, so harmless" sits firmly in the mind...
A special story - children who, because of the peculiarities of development" prescribe medications that improve memory, attention, ability to assimilate information. To use them it is necessary "strictly according to doctor's orders". But...many kids will pay attention to such "trifles", if you know that increasing the dose, you can't just quickly deal with the lessons, but to catch a real thrill! And then to share the discovery with classmates...

NEW GENERATION CHOOSES...

"All this looks like some sort of layout: drugs not - but you can vodka!" - sings the notorious group "Leningrad". And with these comrades is hard not to agree: that alcohol, especially of poor quality, addictive, destroys the organism, cripples the mind, none of our compatriots don't need to tell - almost every family has or have been victims of "green serpent". But does this mean that as opposed to drinking should be allowed the use of drugs, even "light"?

Psychotropic drugs, as we have said, in our country just to get impossible, marijuana, we were never considered legitimate, but some "Smoking blends", which consisted of the derivatives of the same hemp, until recently, were freely available. As elsewhere in the world. They acknowledged the drug only last year - and banned. To the deepest disappointment of consumers, most of whom are from 15 to 27 years. This is the generation that grew up on acid clips and tales about the "expansion of consciousness". About the "heavy" drugs, such as crack cocaine or heroin, the young, mostly, not opinions. As about alcohol. Another thing - meditative "grass", the enchanting "ecstasy"dynamic "speedy".

But because they are inaccessible, it is quite suitable... their legal counterparts. Talk about young people on some "specialized" forums. There are so many amazing substances! To replace Smoking mixtures came "magic" bath salts, "legal powders and other attractive products "made solely on the basis of legal homeopathic remedies!" - as stated in the advertisement of one of the sites that distribute such products. "Our products have passed all the necessary expertise, their legality is confirmed by official documents". "Legal powders wholesale and retail, delivery on the whole Russia!". About those ads Peter Tosh probably never dreamed of. And rightly so. Because modern "legal drugs" far more dangerous his favorite marijuana. So why are they allowed?

Everything is simple and difficult at the same time. In the majority of them are really vegetable ingredients that can cause hallucinations, euphoria or Vice versa - braking. They simply do not have time "to count", that is, to recognize the drug. By the way, many of the "ingredients" - poisonous plants that slowly kills a person, have a negative impact on the brain, provoke different diseases. About their intoxicating effect was known long ago - just before anybody wouldn't think to use such a dangerous substance. Because they kill a lot faster than the same cocaine or opium, which outlawed worldwide. That's the "homeopathy"...

It seems, after some time, I will rebuke and drugs "new generation", recording them in the appropriate register. And then, manufacturers and sellers "buzz" will have to find something "better". And probably more dangerous. Because many people cannot imagine their life without the "magic substances". While demand, as is known, gives rise to supply.

Andrey SITNIKOV