Interesting idea about drug use

[chrisms]

Originally posted by: azazyel
that has to be one of the stupidest things I have heard in a long time. What motivation would anyone have to go there? If they were living on the streets then sure they might want a warm place but not all drug users fall into this catagory, in fact very few probably do. If the drugs and sex were free then sure that would work but other than that I don't

I am a drug user. I hang around many drug users. Every time I have ever used drugs, the first thing that comes up afterwards is where we should do them. In the wintertime, when it is cold and raining, being indoors is always our top priority. So, speaking from experience, nearly every drug user falls into this catagory.

Besides that, the drugs would be legal in this building. Why get intoxicated on the streets, where you can get caught and go to jail, when you can just go get a room and have it all be legit? Why pick up a prostitute who could be a cop, when you could just go to this building and be guaranteed a successful transaction?

 

I must disagree here Roger. Though initially there would be more, and newer, people using this "Service". After a period of time it would die down (one way or another).

Please inform me why you think it would die down, an assumption ?

 

[Descartes]

Originally posted by: Roger

Your egregious ignorance is exhausting. Stick to your Porsches and your malformed perception of the "real world." It's also nice to see you always reduce yourself to ad hominem attacks rather than actually say something of value.

OK smart guy, let's fire all the police officers and lets see how rampant crime gets, you and your book are trying to tell me that that law enforcement has no effect on crime prevention ?


answer me that

Who is the ignorant one, it certainly is not me.

The problem with people like you is that you have no real world experiance, you draw conclusions from books and not experiance.

Such thinking is shown to be patently false in many cases. Fundamental to this somewhat fallacious thinking is the scarcity facet of social psychology. Simply put, independent of the emotional/physical value derived from drug use the credulous often desire it simply for its scarcity value alone

Oh, I forgot to add that I was talking about prostitution, not drug use, read my post.

I don't know what you're talking about, Roger. Did i say that at all? I'm merely saying that threatening actions with punishment hardly addresses the psychological motivator behind these acts in the first place. I am interested in the problem, not the many different manifestations of it. I'm interested in what social and pscyhological factors influence one's decision. Telling someone not to do something for they will be punished is to elicit its scarcity, and sufficient psychological research exists to show that this will significantly increase its desirability independent of any previous desire; in other words, someone not previously interested in something will suddently be very interested once it becomes scarce.

Anyway, I don't pretend to have the answer to the problem of drugs, nor do I pretend to be a critic of the function of law enforcement. I'm merely offering references of human knowledge that might help others better understand the problem.

 

Originally posted by: Roger
Incorrect, this would entice many more people into that illicit activity than is now present.

Do you honestly think that law enforcement is not a deterrent to prostitution.

Your first sentence Descartes




Such thinking is shown to be patently false in many cases.

 

[Chunkee]

I will open up a "Munchie Snack" on the pothead floor.

JC

 

FIGHT FIGHT !

HIT'EM HIT'EM

Put up your dukes Descartes, I'm ready to go

 

[Gurck]

Originally posted by: Chunkee
I will open up a "Munchie Snack" on the pothead floor.

JC

 

[Descartes]

Originally posted by: Roger

Originally posted by: Roger
Incorrect, this would entice many more people into that illicit activity than is now present.

Do you honestly think that law enforcement is not a deterrent to prostitution.

Your first sentence Descartes




Such thinking is shown to be patently false in many cases.

I was referring to the generalized action->punishment relationship and its elicitation of social influences, not the effectiveness of law enforcement.

Have a :beer:

 

Then why did you quote this ?

Incorrect, this would entice many more people into that illicit activity than is now present.

Do you honestly think that law enforcement is not a deterrent to prostitution.

Screw the beer, I'M READY TO FIGHT TO THE DEATH, LET'S GO.

 

[Descartes]

Originally posted by: Roger
FIGHT FIGHT !

HIT'EM HIT'EM

Put up your dukes Descartes, I'm ready to go

I find that a :beer: offering usually helps calm things down You'd win any way; I'm just a geek.

 

[StageLeft]

OP I think your professor was watching New Jack City.

 

Dammit, I was looking forward to a really good battle


I did like that Porsche remark, it was good

 

[Descartes]

Originally posted by: Roger
Then why did you quote this ?

Incorrect, this would entice many more people into that illicit activity than is now present.

Do you honestly think that law enforcement is not a deterrent to prostitution.

Screw the beer, I'M READY TO FIGHT TO THE DEATH, LET'S GO.

My statement was primarily in reference to that line, not the last. I have a tendency to argue only a few sentences of a response yet quote the entire thing. I'm working on it.

Don't hurt me.

 

[jagec]

Originally posted by: Chunkee
I will open up a "Munchie Snack" on the pothead floor.

JC

That's the best idea in the thread.

 

Sh!t, I got to go, my little boy is at the bus stop waiting for me, bye.

 

[Xionide]

Originally posted by: Roger
Great, go in, get laid, pick up Aids or some other disease, come back out of the zone and spread it to the rest of the population, no thanks.

Currently the just go straight to the last step.

-Xionide

 

[UNCjigga]

Wasn't this the idea behind 'Escape from NY' or 'Escape from LA'??? Both of those movies sucked, IMHO, so therefore the idea must suck too.

 

[Gurck]

No way, those movies kicked ass!

 

[Excelsior]

Originally posted by: Jigga
Wasn't this the idea behind 'Escape from NY' or 'Escape from LA'??? Both of those movies sucked, IMHO, so therefore the idea must suck too.

Boooo...they are in the top 20 movies made in the past 20 years, thats for sure.




Haha . No really..Snake Plissken is the man.


And Descartes - you know that talking like you do doesnt't help right? It doesn't make you sound smarter, nor does it get your point across any better. That, and it is getting annoying.

 

[amcdonald]

Originally posted by: Jigga
Wasn't this the idea behind 'Escape from NY' or 'Escape from LA'??? Both of those movies sucked, IMHO, so therefore the idea must suck too.

These are wise words. Take heed.

I think this idea sucks because no one wants to go somewhere to do drugs when they can just get stoned at their house. And true addicts would have to live there because they get high all the time. It really makes no sense. It's like asking someone to go somewhere to smoke, when they smoke a pack a day. Are you going to have drug areas at workplaces?

 

[Corporate Thug]

just like communisim, that idea works only in theory and even in theory its a bit shaky

 

[Excelsior]

Originally posted by: amcdonald

Originally posted by: Jigga
Wasn't this the idea behind 'Escape from NY' or 'Escape from LA'??? Both of those movies sucked, IMHO, so therefore the idea must suck too.

These are wise words. Take heed.

I think this idea sucks because no one wants to go somewhere to do drugs when they can just get stoned at their house. And true addicts would have to live there because they get high all the time. It really makes no sense. It's like asking someone to go somewhere to smoke, when they smoke a pack a day. Are you going to have drug areas at workplaces?

Exactly.

 

[preslove]

This is a "Red Light District." Holland has them and it doesn't do any harm. In fact, it brings hundreds of thousands of tourists to Amsterdam to spend their money and leave.

 

[BatmanNate]

Who pays for it? Exactly. Next idea please.

 

[krunchykrome]

This "place" is commonly referred to as "a home."