Switzerland used to have one of the worst heroin addiction rates in Europe, until the state opened clinics giving unadulterated heroin to addicts for free with clean needles. . This stopped them spending all day robbing or dealing for their fix & enabled them to hold down jobs & lead stable family lives. The clinics provided support helping addicts to quit. & many did. More importantly, as the addicts had no motivation to deal, there were fewer new users drawn into the habit as the black market collapsed. Free Heroin, crazy idea right? Well It has payed for itself many times over.
@@rainbowkrampus Switzerland has compulsory military service, after which each vet is given a military grade assault rifle & pistol. However this is for use in case of war, their use is highly regulated. & of course the army has two years to assess wether someone is responsible to keep weapons at home. They are strictly for military use only, not for repealing a home invasion for instance. One in three Swiss households are armed.
@@zivkovicable yeah my uncle had a 44 and a chinese made AK. his friend down the road had like 6000 firearms. The saying goes that switzerland dont need an army, cause switzerland IS an army. That dont do jack I might add
Good. Drug addiction should be treated as a medical condition. Portugal decriminalized all drugs sometime ago so we have hard data on this and as long as you aren't getting your rocks off at suffering it's a win-win for everyone. I guess sadists lose out a little bit but that's about all
Years ago I had a coworker who was a recovering heroine addict. He was a hard worker and a good dude who was trying to recover for his daughter’s sake. I know for a fact he would have sought out and benefited heavily from the kind of government aid Vaush talks about here. Last I heard of him was a few months after last I saw him, another coworker told me he saw him being carted off a public transport train on a gurney. Still bothers me to this day 7 years later and I didn’t even know him that well.
Excellent news. Hopefully this will be a lot more effective in informing policy in North America than drug reform in more distant countries like Portugal
Imagine you're tripping in the woods. Lot's of weed, or you're ripped on acid or mushrooms. And you see a moose with bleeding horns, and you aren't aware that that is a thing. That's a kind of horror that would take a piece of your soul.
Brazil does a pretty good thing with making drug possession not a crime... However, it makes drug sales a crime, and, since the police has the power to judge that, well, you can bet they're super impartial and totally not racist
@@godhobb2019 The police decides if the amount of drugs you have is for selling or consuming. And I've seen black kids getting caught with fucking two joints and getting fucked for it. Rich white kids however, that's a different story.
@@godhobb2019 He's saying there are individual police officers who use the power they have to specifically put minorities behind bars for the same crime (you can look at someone who has 5g of weed on them and say it's intended for consumption (not illegal) or selling (very illegal) depending on your "judgment" which is usually pretty subjective due to limited evidence). Which seems to be a pretty international phenomenon regardless, but considering Brazilian politics it's probably pretty bad in places. Or are we going to pretend individuals can't be racist and that can't affect their job? Because you'd have to be pretty delusional to think that
Id like to also note giving people an out from their addiction that doesn't involve religion is extremely important. as a former alcoholic going to any AA meeting was just religious recruitment, and i cant imagine how many people lose themselves in it, trading one addiction for another.
…besides the fact that it can act as a deterrent for those looking for help. I’m a recovering addict & have never felt comfortable going to NA meetings bc of that religious aspect…so much so that I stopped going. Along with decriminalization, I think having more options as far as the types of programs/services available (that aren’t just for the mega rich) so that any addict can get the help they need while feeling both comfortable & engaged is crucial to this fight.
It’s weird that religion is a part of those services at all. We’ve got plenty of actual data on what’s most helpful for fighting drug addiction, we don’t need to revert to religion to help people. Guess it’s just another area where Christianity is presumed, and if your not Christian too bad.
Stone is reaaaaaaaly taking it's time to roll down the hill here. We have the data, we know what the right policies are, immensely frustrating that they're not just sweepingly implemented.
Yeah but that's how it always works, unfortunately. Gay is ok, trans is ok, and, maybe the least objectionable, easiest to collect massive amounts of data on, Global Climate Change is slowly but surely killing all of us and making life much harder for everyone left alive. Climate Change has been the biggest inexorable threat to mankind as a whole since, perhaps, the Cold War finally cooled off. And yet, at least here in America, the Government is doing jack-shit about it. Slightly more jackshit than when scientists first started warning us about this back in the 50s or whenever but still, compared to what you would imagine people would do once they realized there was something that was going to destroy the only viable planet we have to live on? Next to nothing is being done. And that just fucking sucks, lol.
Vaush is largely correct here but I would add to his point that decriminalisation is most effective when a robust medical/mental health rehab system is available and can be accessed alongside the safe usage sites. Thats the often unsaid greatness of the the portugal model, they went ALL IN and it worked
I saw a live moose driving home one night. Absolutely terrifying how big they are. Like I'm inside my car and didn't feel remotely protected from this wild animal. But it was minding it's own business so it was chill.
Years ago my great uncle got into heroin. He lived in a different state than all of us so when he ran off we had zero idea where he was. When he got arrested for possession he called my grandma (who was still the closest to him) to bail him out. She said that she'll do that in person, but then she's taking him to a rehab center. He hung up and then called his brother for money the next day so I guess he was only in jail for a day. He died about a month later. He overdosed, yeah, but he was also sharing the same needle with another guy every time. If there was an injection site program at the time I do wonder if he'd still be alive today. We'd lie and say that the state he lived in didn't have one, but ours does, and we'd be able to work slowly from there. (I dunno where he'd stay though.) I also lost my aunt from methadone. (What they give you when you're trying to get off of heroin.) I was fourteen at the time and I didn't find out the details until I was in my 20's. Though thinking back I can see the bread crumbs- she'd ask everybody for money and say that it was for food or something. And she stayed with her abusive boyfriend (who also died) because he's the one who had access to the drug. Again if there were injection sites, she wouldn't have needed him and I think it'd be a lot easier for her to not only get off of it, but for us to help her through it.
"Addiction shaming" and what Vaush did are two different things !! He did not says that you are less of a human being because you are addicted. That can happen to anyone. And anyone is to a degree. Vaush simply said that no addict wants to be addicts, and we should help them get off the leash.
@@Ass_of_Amalek True, I think that's what the chatters were trying to say and Vaush was just being dismissive. It's important to note the statistical fact that the capture rate (% of people who try who end up addicts) of heroin is 30%. That's the minority!
Last summer I started my job as a county level D&A caseworker and now I work for the Treatment Court recovery program. The state of Pennsylvania's DDAP explicitly advocates for Syringe Service Programs not just in their websites but when you ask members at trainings. It just seems so undeniably helpful. Big shame my county commissioners are so old and conservative they'll never implement them
i always have this argument with grandma about drugs...and i just ask her about alcohol...what makes drugs different from alcohol...she just makes a face and tells me to shut up
If the only difference anyone can name between two things is social acceptance, there is no meaningful difference. The dose makes the poison. It's just a fact of biology.
@@FelisImpurrator not just that, but how we deal with alcoholics in general...there is so much help for them but somehow we cant wrap our head around similar concepts for drug addicts
To the people who refuse to believe there is a level of willpower needed to quit an addiction, you're missing the point. The willpower needed can be overwhelmingly high, which is why these support systems are so crucial. People need the resources to lessen the willpower ceiling in order to quit.
It's generally true but it's not always true. Ibogaine and potentially some iboga alkaloid analogues (such as tabernanthalog) for instance can instantly reverse withdrawal symptoms of opioids while also psychologically inhibiting further intake, effectively fast-forwarding both the physical and psychological dependence on the drug. There are other examples for different drugs, and of course such methods won't work for every addict, but it is certainly possible to treat addiction medicinally without much (if any) willpower, because addiction is ultimately still a reversible change in brain state.
@@dandelion3391 Of course Ibogaine has had some amazing results. But that's part of the support system too. That falls under therapeutics, which are an important step to lowering that willpower threshold needed to pass in order to break addictions.
As a truth teller we also need to acknowledge that not everyone experiences withdrawal and that the majority of people can recreationally use without issue. Also things like cocaine don't typically give withdrawal symptoms which is why you can take your Ritalin one day and forget about it the next without issue. So withdrawal isn't even 100% a functional part of addiction. I firmly believe people excessively turn to drugs because life becomes unbearable to them. Those who can use without addiction generally see life as still positive and worth pursuing. We need to fix our society and the hopelessness because that is also the same reason people are shooting others.
How has it gone? And that's not meant as inflammatory, I've just heard it hasnt gone great, and considering how down the tubes our healthcare has been going, housing crisis, etc, I wouldnt be surprised if it was having little impact
Yeah being addicted to weed is very real, it depends how well you handle it. But I’ve had multiple friends where weed addiction really messed up their lives
McDonalds has ruined more lives than weed. We literally have obese sugar addicted toddlers who go to hospital to be weaned onto a healthy diet because their little bodies are so trashed. Weed is an addictive HABIT please don’t forget to add that
To be clear, there is NO scientific definition of what a "hard" drug is... One of the basic principles of Portugal's decriminalization regime is that there is no such thing as "soft" vs. "hard" drugs (which was maybe not such happy news for users of the former).
Sure, soft vs hard drugs are socially constructed categories based on how much societal harm a drug causes (or is perceived to cause). "Drug" itself is also a social construct by the way since there is no consistent definition of what it even is. A drug is a chemical substance that crosses the blood-brain barrier and exerts pharmacological functions. Don't mean to alarm you, but you and I eat those in food every day. Chocolate alone has several mildly psychoactive constituents. If you eat raw cacao this becomes very obvious. Are chocolate consumers unhappy that Portugal doesn't make a categorical hard/soft distinction between hard drugs and the psychoactive drugs they consume in small amounts everyday? Doubt it. Even if you take a more strong drug, like caffeine, do coffee drinkers care that these are technically socially constructed categories? No. All drugs should be considered on a case by case basis. And if the prototypical "soft drug" is cannabis, then what there IS scientific evidence on is that the dangers of this drug are very minimal compared to a prototypical "hard drug" like heroin. So what does it matter that there is no scientific definition for these societal terms? Should chocolate, coffee, or cannabis users view such news from Portugal as something to be unhappy about?
I differ a little in the idea of addiction. My take is that usually you are an addict even before you take any drugs. You walk around feeling a little off, depressed or maybe your brain just wont shut up. Then you take a drug all that goes away. It solves all your problem just like that. Someone said "don't ask why the drugs, ask why the pain".
I support decriminalizing all drugs. That being said to say the adicts arent hurting anybody is definetly a lie. I live in a bad area and ive been robbed many times by adicts. Ive seen them assault people randomly they arent harmless. You definetly wamt your head on a swivel. But giving them a criminal record makes it harder for them to get a job and rejoin society.
You can kill a polar bear with a handgun. It will still kill you but it will die from the wounds eventually. Moose will total any vehicle it collides with and it might even stand back up. The bleeding moose is them removing the skin of the new woods.
Moose have antlers and they shed velvet. Their antlers are coated in fuzzy velvet during the winter and then they shed the velvet in the spring exposing the antlers.
While I agree with the points he made here, I kinda wish that he would talk a bit more about solutions that aren't dependent on action from the state. One chatter I think mentioned clean rooms in the UK set up by anarchists, which is pretty cool
i get what you're saying. he's a political commentator tho. it's very case-by-case and nearly any advice he'd give to a specific set of people, particularly addicts, will probably only be useful to a very small minority of that already small subset of his audience
Cool as that is. Police not storming such a place and shooting and arresting everyone involved is pretty nice. And that does require government deciding not to.
During that whole mooselock I was thinking if that video of the person on a snowmobile getting attacked by a moose, then they took it down with their handgun.
its super interesting vaush doesnt have an addictive personality at all, since I and a lot of other adhds have that as a symptom of adhd. although it seems like he doesn't really understand how this works with his adderall comments, because giving an adhd person adderall is an insta cure for addiction, and the best thing you can do to help a person with adhd who has an addiction. ive never had any drug addiction, because well, I have an addictive personality and anxiety so ive always been very avoidant, but the first day I took adderall, I didn't crave caffeine. I didn't crave masturbating. (adhd induced hypersexuality is a common form of adhd causing addictiveness). certainly drug addicts have to do a lot more to deal with getting off heroin and stuff, but I do find it interesting that I went from hardcore all-my-friends-were-concerned caffeine addict to NO WITHDRAWAL SYMPTOMS with my magic no addiction pills. and by magic I mean my brain finally has dopamine, instead of desperately craving and constantly impulsively doing whatever will give me anything. long comment so good job if you read it; the way adhd and addiction work together is super interesting so I dont want to oversimplify when this already feels too simple lol
I'd put him saying he doesn't have an addictive personality down to the fact that he's never gave himself the opportunity to actually become addicted, he admitted to never having done "hard drugs" which in the mind of most people is anything beyond weed
@OP Interesting, though. I wonder if Adderall would do anything for mine. It's impossible to test, as in my country Adderall is impossible to acquire, but as far as ADHD is concerned Ritalin doesn't seem to do much for me and modafinil's only slightly useful. Edit: On the other hand, at least I don't feel personality effects too strongly. Cravings and slightly impulsive buying habits are relatively easy to suppress, and more or less all I have an issue dealing with is starting tasks, more so than finishing them. Be nice to live somewhere with less ridiculously backward cultural preconceptions around psychoactives though, because this place has one of the worst, dumbest drug wars in the world.
@@FelisImpurrator that's really awful you dont have access to medical treatment :(( it's pretty common for ritalin to be a less effective treatment for ADHD, because if I understand it correctly, Ritalin and other methylamphetamines are just reuptake inhibitors, meaning the dopamine you do have stays in yours brain longer, whereas stuff like both of my stimulant meds, adderall and vyvanse, both inhibit reuptake and release more dopamine. treatment for adhd is definitely stigmatized here in the USA, I've always known ive had adhd but never got treatment until now, being 20 years old, after actively seeking it once I was an adult. but I'm very glad and privileged to now have the medical access that I do, and it's pretty wild and new to see... people that are just less privileged deal with things I got over, but they can't because what I did just isn't an option. keep in mind adhd is very responsive to making an adhd friendly environment for yourself, so I hope you keep finding good ways of living ur best adhd life, therapist can help a lot with adhd too which surprised me at first but its very true, be well and good luck comrade
@@allergiccookies6735 That's the Philippines for you. Modafinil isn't even available normally here, let alone a low level amphetamine. And yet politicians can grab a hit of fentanyl whenever they want while poor people get shot over a bag of pot. I'm lucky. I can basically manage about 85% of my getting shit together with self-applied cognitive behavioral therapy, and the fact that my autistic-ass brain decided its special interests were psychology and sociology and learning basically everything about those things. The other 15% is sleep apnea leading to chronic energy deficiency, which has a solid chance of being the cause of all the significant ADHD symptoms by itself. One of these days I'll just borrow some spoons and get a sleep study so I can find out whether fixing that means I don't need to bother working around the limited access to psychiatric care here.
The amount of doses in 2.5 grams of heroin depends on the quality, the route of administration, and the tolerance of the individual. As a brief heroin addict I could go through 2 grams a week. According to the research i've read about ~4 grams of heroin a day seems to be the top of tolerances to heroin.
a little over half a g a day was my sweet spot. i could have done more but my addict brain was always planning on curbing withdrawal instead of getting really high so i would always save a bit for the morning so i could be straight while getting more money the next day to maintain. what a rough fucking life sheesh. been away from it for 9 years now thankfully
Talking about the first segment, I think a lot of the Canadian supremacy comes from the fact that US politics are all over the media, even up here, so people hear of all the problems in the US, while promptly ignoring how similar the two countries are. Plus there's that old joke about how peaceful and nice Canada is and I unironically think that a lot of those people forget its a meme.
I encountered a moose on the PCT in northern Washington. I had my headphones in and was jamming to Grateful Dead and didn't even notice it until it took off running behind me, away from me. I had passed right by it, probably about 20 feet away? It looked like a car moving away honestly.
Criminal lawyer here who works in BC. This is somewhat not news because police forces and prosecutors haven't been charging people for personal amounts of drug possession in BC for quite some time. On the other hand, an explicit ban on criminalizing drug possession means the police no longer have probable grounds to search someone merely because they've spotted them possessing or using illegal drugs. So this might be protecting people's privacy more, to some extent.
Moose shed their horns, but the blood comes from “velvet” which is a thin layer of skin with tons of blood vessels that pump blood into their horns so they grow fast. They shed it off during the mating season
I live in vancouver and the level of suffering and destitution in the downtown Eastside is absolutely criminal. Complete failure of government on every level and I have no idea what's the solution to help these people.
Vaush's first point, on civil rights: "I'm so pissed off at these people telling me Canada is different to the US, so I banned them all!" Vaush's second point, on gun control in Canada (in literally the next breath) "I don't care about gun laws in other countries, the US is uniquely different." Such a debate bro lol
i love weed so i dont care about being addicted to it (that and the fact that weed has remarkably few drawbacks compared to harder drugs) but being addicted to codeine fucking sucked. pretty much all of what vaush said is just straight up true
any stoner that says "you can't be addicted to weed" is coping AND seething. it's addictive and habit forming but it's withdrawal symptoms are extremely mild.
Ok but weed is an addictive habit like coffee or fast food. You won’t die from withdrawal like from a hard drug. Please don’t muddle just how severe hard drugs are to your body
@@FernandoTorrera it's not muddling to say weed is addictive. Also coffee has CAFFEINE in it which is a very addictive drug. It's just legal. Fast food does not contain drugs or chemicals in it to make you want it, it's just fast and easy. Don't compare that shit to drugs.
5:56 in comparison to “how much of the drug” it is I would say for heroin atleast that’s like a little over two days worth for a kinda heavy daily user. Which I don’t see a user having more then that on there person at a given time. Throwing an addict in jail for having a needle or a couple bags doesn’t help them it just traumatizes them. Most people don’t stay clean after getting locked up briefly they need rehab or like mat (medical assisted treatment I just want people to stop dying. And yes nobody wants to be addicted waking up every day sick as shit chasing dope yeah being high is cool but after you’ve been an addict so long you don’t even get high anymore. You just have to do it to feel normal not sick. I think a lot of people would go into treatment if they had the support.
"Throwing an addict in jail for having a needle or a couple bags doesn’t help them it just traumatizes them." I wonder if this could ever be healthy as a roleplay kink. But certainly real criminal charges are counterproductive.
@@synchronium24 Kinks are often ways for people to explore their fears in healthy ways by rendering them safe and controllable. So, about as safe as any other...
Bottom line, addiction is a disease just like diabetes or Parkinson’s, and criminalizing people who suffer from a disease is demented and cruel. I’ve never done heroin, but I was an alcoholic and a cocaine addict for many years. Now I work at a drug and alcohol rehab and I’ve been clean for over three years. Decriminalization and safe injection sites can literally only help. Step two is Medicare for all free at point of service so anybody can attend a residential treatment facility, meet with a therapist, and get adequate psychiatric medication if they need it. Step three is federally guaranteed housing so drug addicts who have difficulty staying sober and can’t live in a sober home at least have a roof over their heads.
So the problem is not the substance, but people who abuse them in different ways? If that’s the case then you could use a similar argument for guns, right?
Addiction happens regardless. Better to have social inclusion and data. Far as the cartels.. American alcohol cartels haven't been an issue since last century. Maybe criminalization puts control into the hands of people who are profit motivated alone?
@@stormmcbeth5744 All of the most successful economies in human history were capitalist, Meanwhile not a single communist nation existed that wasn't a fascist genocidal hellhole.
Knew a guy who went moose hunting with his buddies in Alaska. Took seven people unloading into it with a mix of .223 and .308 and the moose still managed to charge a good 150 yards partially uphill. A handgun ain't gonna do shit.
It works the other way around. The brain builds up a resistance to the dopamine. So you get less effect from the same amount. In the end, you have to take massive amounts just to get the same feeling as when you started, and that's when ODing happens.
So I just got done smoking my second bowl and I gotta say, my grass is looking a lil different this time around. Little bit more like a habit and less like a lifestyle ya know?
opiates are the drug class best able to depict why strict criminalization of drugs doesnt work. Every single time they make it harder to access clean drugs and paraphernalia the more deaths, economic destruction, crime and generational trauma. What is the difference between heroin and methadone? The ability for people to have constant and cheap access and avoid the ups and downs of withdrawl and drug searching completely disrupts the behavioral implications weve come to ascribe to opiate addicts.
The only reason methadone is better option is due to it length of effects. If we got people into a clinic to pick up their heroin or DOC, we could more easily target treatment services and harm reduction to those who need it.
Only half based here. Only 10-20% of all drug users are addicts, and legalization is the way to solve most drug related social issues. Drugs are nowhere near as likely to cause addiction as people think. I.e. crack only has a 5% higher rate of addiction than alcohol, despite it’s primary user-base being people predisposed to addiction. Addiction can also be prevented much more easily than cured. You can’t really help an addict in terms of getting clean. Sending people for “help” doesn’t actually work in most cases. Addiction is more a side effect of social and mental circumstances than it is a core problem in a vacuum. It’s a symptom
Good take. What vaush missed a little bit is non addict hard drug consumers. Lotta my friends do a little MDMA or Ketamine or Speed on the weekends and are totally functioning, hard working human beings. Most of that is thanks to their good education and knowledge about the risks of drugs so they abide to safer use rules, know their dose and use test kits etc. Still due to the criminal justice system they are potential inmates, which is fucked.
I 99% agree but it's worth noting that the drugs you listed (besides speed) are not really that addictive. MDMA is a strong stim that can cause psychological addiction in some cases sure, but it causes massive serotonergic downregulation and tolerance such that it rarely does. You can't abuse MDMA at the same rate as meth or speed, it simply will not work, and most people will find that even doing it more than once a month will make them "lose the magic" and have terrible side effects. Ketamine can likewise sometimes be psychologically addictive, but rarely, since it doesn't release any monoamines (i.e. dopamine, serotonin). In fact it's often used to treat addictions and can in some cases reverse deficits associated with stimulants via NMDA antagonism.
I litteraly have to drink coffee and even that is bad. Like it did jack for me since i was realy used to it but not drinking it makes me sleepy , angry , less mentaly capable and it gives me tons of headaches. I tryed to stop drinking it for 30 days and now i cannot drink it as much as i need to get the headache go away compleatly because if i do i can't sleep. I had 4 days of no sleep at some point. Coffee in question is about 20 shots of espresso dayly. Now i am just drinking watered down coldbred instead of water watering it down a bit more every week. Edit:400 mg is the limit for safe caffeine 20 shots is about 1500 mg. More than 3 times the limit. I stoped due to hearth complications. I have a chekup once every 6 months and i am 19.
I still disagree about your first bit regarding the use of emergency powers. I agree the ability to have that power is dangerous, but I also think that just like with various other powers currently available to your own government, it is necessary, albeit needs to be heavily scrutinized and has to immediately trigger review by as impartial entities as we can get. In your own country you were able to do what we did immediately and to less effect. By contrast as someone who had friends living downtown Ottawa, it was literally their homes being held hostage by people. The use of emergency powers was by and large required in Ottawa as multiple agencies got brought in and coordinated in such a way that allowed for essentially no blood shed. The police were down right too non aggressive, but the reality is it is more effective. This wasn't the first time something like this happened exactly but this time it was actually handled well. These powers are fine so long as they're held with appropiate checks and balances. The ability to protest is crucial without a doubt but we all struggle to find the line between protest vs riot VS occupation. These right winger nut jobs weren't calling for policy change but government Change. Would that qualify as insurrection? We got our problems here but having those emergency powers are needed. When shit hits the fan there and we start taking American refugees en masse, those same powers will be triggered to allow rapid set up, bank accounts, you name it. Also your love of moose rocks haha they're cute asf. Oddly most of our moose seem to be on one of our islands haha. As for the wolf comment about hunting them, generally apex predators aren't the ones you need to manage and are key stone animals. It's why when they reintroduced wolves into certain areas biodiversity actually goes up and overall health does as well.
The Flap Nose on this moose looks like a Mule's Flop Nose, also my pet Donkey nose was Floppy Nose and He would Laugh like a Kackass when I tickled his haunches, I miss my donkey.
as an ex addict, I gotta say that thumbnail is pre effin rough man. makin my feet sweat out here. not to be the triggered guy in the comments but it's literally triggering to see that stuff
I’ve literally never met a “functioning addict” that is actually doing well or that doesn’t turn into a degenerate bc they refuse to get help. The very least you need to do is acknowledge that it’s a problem.
I work in healthcare and I've seen people like this. They are real. They spend decades doing hard drugs making big bucks and nobody knew about it and nobody targeted them and eventually they got a stroke to the brain but they never went to jail for it because they were white.
@@havenwalton7206 depends on the definition of "functioning addict". I know folks that shit on the sidewalk, sleep in a tent and end up in the hospital a few times a month. If you ask them they would say they are "functioning addicts". I also know folks that are trapped in a cycle and want out but due to trauma always end up back on drugs to cope. I also live in vancouver BC and deal with the marginalized folk a lot.
As a Washingtonian I welcome the progressive and forward thinking BC/Cascade. May your future look brighter and hope the grass is sincerely greater on the other side.
![ตีสิบเดย์ [FULL] | เปิดใจ "อาจารย์ เบียร์ ฅนตื่นธรรม" นักสนทนาธรรมสายดุดัน!](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/vqaBI_mnoDk/mqdefault.jpg)
5:14 To Skip The Mooselock. I left it in because moose are cute.
What a good stunlock
tempest is the foundation to which holds the Vowtress secure
*meese
Based
Even Souls-boss moose is kinda cute if you can get past the terrifying antlers
Switzerland used to have one of the worst heroin addiction rates in Europe, until the state opened clinics giving unadulterated heroin to addicts for free with clean needles. . This stopped them spending all day robbing or dealing for their fix & enabled them to hold down jobs & lead stable family lives. The clinics provided support helping addicts to quit. & many did. More importantly, as the addicts had no motivation to deal, there were fewer new users drawn into the habit as the black market collapsed. Free Heroin, crazy idea right? Well It has payed for itself many times over.
Sure sure, but here in the Greatest Country in the World™, we believe that all anyone needs to fix what ails them is God™ and Guns™.
@@rainbowkrampus Switzerland has compulsory military service, after which each vet is given a military grade assault rifle & pistol. However this is for use in case of war, their use is highly regulated. & of course the army has two years to assess wether someone is responsible to keep weapons at home. They are strictly for military use only, not for repealing a home invasion for instance. One in three Swiss households are armed.
@@rainbowkrampus God & Guns > Puberty blockers.
@@zivkovicable yeah my uncle had a 44 and a chinese made AK. his friend down the road had like 6000 firearms. The saying goes that switzerland dont need an army, cause switzerland IS an army. That dont do jack I might add
@@تشؤنسخى God & Guns. Two of the biggest reasons why the U.S. is in this dumpster fire of a mess.
Good. Drug addiction should be treated as a medical condition. Portugal decriminalized all drugs sometime ago so we have hard data on this and as long as you aren't getting your rocks off at suffering it's a win-win for everyone. I guess sadists lose out a little bit but that's about all
Sauce?
I saw a Micheal Moore documentary that touched on that. "Where to Invade next" was what it was called.
@@connormacleod4922 thanks!
Me: I can't wait to hear about the legalization of hard drugs!
Vaush: Guys, moose are big
Gotta love them meese! 😍
Decriminalisation of hard drugs, isn't the legislation of them
Years ago I had a coworker who was a recovering heroine addict. He was a hard worker and a good dude who was trying to recover for his daughter’s sake. I know for a fact he would have sought out and benefited heavily from the kind of government aid Vaush talks about here. Last I heard of him was a few months after last I saw him, another coworker told me he saw him being carted off a public transport train on a gurney. Still bothers me to this day 7 years later and I didn’t even know him that well.
Excellent news. Hopefully this will be a lot more effective in informing policy in North America than drug reform in more distant countries like Portugal
The depressing thing is that other European countries are ignoring Portugal's success...
Imagine you're tripping in the woods. Lot's of weed, or you're ripped on acid or mushrooms. And you see a moose with bleeding horns, and you aren't aware that that is a thing. That's a kind of horror that would take a piece of your soul.
Brazil does a pretty good thing with making drug possession not a crime...
However, it makes drug sales a crime, and, since the police has the power to judge that, well, you can bet they're super impartial and totally not racist
How is that racist
@@godhobb2019 The police decides if the amount of drugs you have is for selling or consuming. And I've seen black kids getting caught with fucking two joints and getting fucked for it. Rich white kids however, that's a different story.
@@godhobb2019 He's saying there are individual police officers who use the power they have to specifically put minorities behind bars for the same crime (you can look at someone who has 5g of weed on them and say it's intended for consumption (not illegal) or selling (very illegal) depending on your "judgment" which is usually pretty subjective due to limited evidence). Which seems to be a pretty international phenomenon regardless, but considering Brazilian politics it's probably pretty bad in places.
Or are we going to pretend individuals can't be racist and that can't affect their job? Because you'd have to be pretty delusional to think that
If you skip the Mooselock you're a fake fan
As a Canadian, we don't need tanks in our military, moose are nature's tanks
I’m pretty sure I can beat the breaks off of scoutmaster Lumpus and the rest of his kind.
Can you send some to Ukraine?
Yall were under the impression that our Royal Canadian Mounted Police rode horses,
Moose? Canadian geese are the ones to be wary of
@@andyspell9417 attack dogs? No need, we got geese bitches
Id like to also note giving people an out from their addiction that doesn't involve religion is extremely important. as a former alcoholic going to any AA meeting was just religious recruitment, and i cant imagine how many people lose themselves in it, trading one addiction for another.
…besides the fact that it can act as a deterrent for those looking for help. I’m a recovering addict & have never felt comfortable going to NA meetings bc of that religious aspect…so much so that I stopped going. Along with decriminalization, I think having more options as far as the types of programs/services available (that aren’t just for the mega rich) so that any addict can get the help they need while feeling both comfortable & engaged is crucial to this fight.
It’s weird that religion is a part of those services at all. We’ve got plenty of actual data on what’s most helpful for fighting drug addiction, we don’t need to revert to religion to help people. Guess it’s just another area where Christianity is presumed, and if your not Christian too bad.
Stone is reaaaaaaaly taking it's time to roll down the hill here. We have the data, we know what the right policies are, immensely frustrating that they're not just sweepingly implemented.
Yeah but that's how it always works, unfortunately. Gay is ok, trans is ok, and, maybe the least objectionable, easiest to collect massive amounts of data on, Global Climate Change is slowly but surely killing all of us and making life much harder for everyone left alive. Climate Change has been the biggest inexorable threat to mankind as a whole since, perhaps, the Cold War finally cooled off. And yet, at least here in America, the Government is doing jack-shit about it. Slightly more jackshit than when scientists first started warning us about this back in the 50s or whenever but still, compared to what you would imagine people would do once they realized there was something that was going to destroy the only viable planet we have to live on? Next to nothing is being done. And that just fucking sucks, lol.
It’s too useful for cops. They just throw some drugs in your trunk, and bam, they get a promotion, & your life is ruined.
Conservatives.
Most american libs (like chat) still have puritanical views on drug usage, which is weird considering how much they worship tf out of frat culture lol
@@blackmage1276 ah, I see we’re playing jeopardy now.. I know this one:
“Which group is the most likely to destroy to America?”
Vaush is largely correct here but I would add to his point that decriminalisation is most effective when a robust medical/mental health rehab system is available and can be accessed alongside the safe usage sites. Thats the often unsaid greatness of the the portugal model, they went ALL IN and it worked
Got people in my life that do heroin, I wish it was not sold by drug dealers
I saw a live moose driving home one night. Absolutely terrifying how big they are. Like I'm inside my car and didn't feel remotely protected from this wild animal. But it was minding it's own business so it was chill.
Wtf moose aren’t scary
I was attacked by a deer as a teenager so the thought of a moose terrifies me. It’s like a super deer
@@frost1183 bro theyre massive, jacked, and have spears strapped to their heads. in person at least theyre kinda intimidating
Damn that's scary. I've never seen a moose driving.
How did they even get the license??? Probably by threat of death 😔
@@wynoglia Goddamnit, you beat me to it! I was rushing here to make that joke before anyone else! 😠
Edit: take my like.
Years ago my great uncle got into heroin. He lived in a different state than all of us so when he ran off we had zero idea where he was. When he got arrested for possession he called my grandma (who was still the closest to him) to bail him out. She said that she'll do that in person, but then she's taking him to a rehab center. He hung up and then called his brother for money the next day so I guess he was only in jail for a day.
He died about a month later. He overdosed, yeah, but he was also sharing the same needle with another guy every time. If there was an injection site program at the time I do wonder if he'd still be alive today. We'd lie and say that the state he lived in didn't have one, but ours does, and we'd be able to work slowly from there. (I dunno where he'd stay though.)
I also lost my aunt from methadone. (What they give you when you're trying to get off of heroin.) I was fourteen at the time and I didn't find out the details until I was in my 20's. Though thinking back I can see the bread crumbs- she'd ask everybody for money and say that it was for food or something. And she stayed with her abusive boyfriend (who also died) because he's the one who had access to the drug. Again if there were injection sites, she wouldn't have needed him and I think it'd be a lot easier for her to not only get off of it, but for us to help her through it.
"Addiction shaming" and what Vaush did are two different things !!
He did not says that you are less of a human being because you are addicted. That can happen to anyone. And anyone is to a degree.
Vaush simply said that no addict wants to be addicts, and we should help them get off the leash.
@@Ass_of_Amalek True, I think that's what the chatters were trying to say and Vaush was just being dismissive. It's important to note the statistical fact that the capture rate (% of people who try who end up addicts) of heroin is 30%. That's the minority!
Last summer I started my job as a county level D&A caseworker and now I work for the Treatment Court recovery program. The state of Pennsylvania's DDAP explicitly advocates for Syringe Service Programs not just in their websites but when you ask members at trainings. It just seems so undeniably helpful. Big shame my county commissioners are so old and conservative they'll never implement them
Build up experience then run against them.
I know, easier said than done. But dang, you already seem more qualified than them in my eyes.
i always have this argument with grandma about drugs...and i just ask her about alcohol...what makes drugs different from alcohol...she just makes a face and tells me to shut up
If the only difference anyone can name between two things is social acceptance, there is no meaningful difference.
The dose makes the poison. It's just a fact of biology.
@@FelisImpurrator not just that, but how we deal with alcoholics in general...there is so much help for them but somehow we cant wrap our head around similar concepts for drug addicts
To the people who refuse to believe there is a level of willpower needed to quit an addiction, you're missing the point. The willpower needed can be overwhelmingly high, which is why these support systems are so crucial. People need the resources to lessen the willpower ceiling in order to quit.
Hear fuckin' hear.
It's generally true but it's not always true. Ibogaine and potentially some iboga alkaloid analogues (such as tabernanthalog) for instance can instantly reverse withdrawal symptoms of opioids while also psychologically inhibiting further intake, effectively fast-forwarding both the physical and psychological dependence on the drug.
There are other examples for different drugs, and of course such methods won't work for every addict, but it is certainly possible to treat addiction medicinally without much (if any) willpower, because addiction is ultimately still a reversible change in brain state.
@@dandelion3391 Of course Ibogaine has had some amazing results. But that's part of the support system too. That falls under therapeutics, which are an important step to lowering that willpower threshold needed to pass in order to break addictions.
As a truth teller we also need to acknowledge that not everyone experiences withdrawal and that the majority of people can recreationally use without issue. Also things like cocaine don't typically give withdrawal symptoms which is why you can take your Ritalin one day and forget about it the next without issue. So withdrawal isn't even 100% a functional part of addiction. I firmly believe people excessively turn to drugs because life becomes unbearable to them. Those who can use without addiction generally see life as still positive and worth pursuing. We need to fix our society and the hopelessness because that is also the same reason people are shooting others.
As a resident of British Columbia, I'd much rather that these addicts get the help they need, than end up in prison.
How has it gone? And that's not meant as inflammatory, I've just heard it hasnt gone great, and considering how down the tubes our healthcare has been going, housing crisis, etc, I wouldnt be surprised if it was having little impact
Kicking ass and taking names? More like ripping ass and taking blame.
Yeah being addicted to weed is very real, it depends how well you handle it. But I’ve had multiple friends where weed addiction really messed up their lives
it is not addiction. can you be addicted to big macs?
@@volusiasorange yes you can
@@volusiasorange *Yes.*
McDonalds has ruined more lives than weed. We literally have obese sugar addicted toddlers who go to hospital to be weaned onto a healthy diet because their little bodies are so trashed.
Weed is an addictive HABIT please don’t forget to add that
@@FernandoTorrera no need to be so defensive about your weed 'habit'
First time I saw a moose, I was expecting it to be about the size of a horse. They are way bigger than a horse.
At this point, with fentanyl, it would help a lot of people to legalize heroin.
Moose are cute until you're driving down a New England backroad in a blizzard and one jumps out in front of your car 🙃
me, an adhd: what is dopamine?
Vaush you should have just uploaded the first 5 mins of the segment. I loved hearing you talk about moose. Not that the rest is gonna be bad.
To be clear, there is NO scientific definition of what a "hard" drug is...
One of the basic principles of Portugal's decriminalization regime is that there is no such thing as "soft" vs. "hard" drugs (which was maybe not such happy news for users of the former).
Sure, soft vs hard drugs are socially constructed categories based on how much societal harm a drug causes (or is perceived to cause). "Drug" itself is also a social construct by the way since there is no consistent definition of what it even is.
A drug is a chemical substance that crosses the blood-brain barrier and exerts pharmacological functions. Don't mean to alarm you, but you and I eat those in food every day. Chocolate alone has several mildly psychoactive constituents. If you eat raw cacao this becomes very obvious.
Are chocolate consumers unhappy that Portugal doesn't make a categorical hard/soft distinction between hard drugs and the psychoactive drugs they consume in small amounts everyday? Doubt it.
Even if you take a more strong drug, like caffeine, do coffee drinkers care that these are technically socially constructed categories? No.
All drugs should be considered on a case by case basis. And if the prototypical "soft drug" is cannabis, then what there IS scientific evidence on is that the dangers of this drug are very minimal compared to a prototypical "hard drug" like heroin. So what does it matter that there is no scientific definition for these societal terms? Should chocolate, coffee, or cannabis users view such news from Portugal as something to be unhappy about?
I differ a little in the idea of addiction. My take is that usually you are an addict even before you take any drugs. You walk around feeling a little off, depressed or maybe your brain just wont shut up. Then you take a drug all that goes away. It solves all your problem just like that. Someone said "don't ask why the drugs, ask why the pain".
Sped up moose calls are what were used for Half-Life 2's fast zombie screams.
Meeses always running on the road, if youre lucky they're facing you. Eyes are easier to see than a bum
Heading to work dopesick wish me luck!
Jesse can I have heroin plz?
Yes but only one spoon full
I support decriminalizing all drugs. That being said to say the adicts arent hurting anybody is definetly a lie. I live in a bad area and ive been robbed many times by adicts. Ive seen them assault people randomly they arent harmless. You definetly wamt your head on a swivel. But giving them a criminal record makes it harder for them to get a job and rejoin society.
there are two d's in addict, just so ya know
good thing he didnt say that then
Being an addict in and of itself should be treated strictly as a medical issue and not criminalized to any extent. That's Vaush's point.
That's a theft hurting you. Not an addiction hurting you.
Learn the difference
That's a theft hurting you, not an addiction hurting you.
Learn the difference
You can kill a polar bear with a handgun. It will still kill you but it will die from the wounds eventually.
Moose will total any vehicle it collides with and it might even stand back up.
The bleeding moose is them removing the skin of the new woods.
Based! Instead of arresting addicts, just invest in rehab centers!
From what I've heard they didnt, and just did the decriminalization. So the effects have not been promising
Moose have antlers and they shed velvet. Their antlers are coated in fuzzy velvet during the winter and then they shed the velvet in the spring exposing the antlers.
While I agree with the points he made here, I kinda wish that he would talk a bit more about solutions that aren't dependent on action from the state.
One chatter I think mentioned clean rooms in the UK set up by anarchists, which is pretty cool
i get what you're saying. he's a political commentator tho. it's very case-by-case and nearly any advice he'd give to a specific set of people, particularly addicts, will probably only be useful to a very small minority of that already small subset of his audience
Cool as that is. Police not storming such a place and shooting and arresting everyone involved is pretty nice. And that does require government deciding not to.
Bro 2.5 grams of MDMA could kill my hometown 🤣
2.5 grams of heroin is quite the amount. Most users usually buy a quarter or half a gram at a time. So being able to carry around 2.5 grams is a lot.
During that whole mooselock I was thinking if that video of the person on a snowmobile getting attacked by a moose, then they took it down with their handgun.
In Canada, we welcome our beloved Moose overlords.
The moose are fighting for drug decriminalization that’s why he spent 5 minutes praising them
chauvinist canadians are afraid of meese and we all know it
its super interesting vaush doesnt have an addictive personality at all, since I and a lot of other adhds have that as a symptom of adhd. although it seems like he doesn't really understand how this works with his adderall comments, because giving an adhd person adderall is an insta cure for addiction, and the best thing you can do to help a person with adhd who has an addiction. ive never had any drug addiction, because well, I have an addictive personality and anxiety so ive always been very avoidant, but the first day I took adderall, I didn't crave caffeine. I didn't crave masturbating. (adhd induced hypersexuality is a common form of adhd causing addictiveness). certainly drug addicts have to do a lot more to deal with getting off heroin and stuff, but I do find it interesting that I went from hardcore all-my-friends-were-concerned caffeine addict to NO WITHDRAWAL SYMPTOMS with my magic no addiction pills. and by magic I mean my brain finally has dopamine, instead of desperately craving and constantly impulsively doing whatever will give me anything.
long comment so good job if you read it; the way adhd and addiction work together is super interesting so I dont want to oversimplify when this already feels too simple lol
I'd put him saying he doesn't have an addictive personality down to the fact that he's never gave himself the opportunity to actually become addicted, he admitted to never having done "hard drugs" which in the mind of most people is anything beyond weed
@@aidanrock8719 Addictive personality means it applies to things other than drugs, such as gambling.
@OP Interesting, though. I wonder if Adderall would do anything for mine. It's impossible to test, as in my country Adderall is impossible to acquire, but as far as ADHD is concerned Ritalin doesn't seem to do much for me and modafinil's only slightly useful.
Edit: On the other hand, at least I don't feel personality effects too strongly. Cravings and slightly impulsive buying habits are relatively easy to suppress, and more or less all I have an issue dealing with is starting tasks, more so than finishing them. Be nice to live somewhere with less ridiculously backward cultural preconceptions around psychoactives though, because this place has one of the worst, dumbest drug wars in the world.
@@FelisImpurrator that's really awful you dont have access to medical treatment :(( it's pretty common for ritalin to be a less effective treatment for ADHD, because if I understand it correctly, Ritalin and other methylamphetamines are just reuptake inhibitors, meaning the dopamine you do have stays in yours brain longer, whereas stuff like both of my stimulant meds, adderall and vyvanse, both inhibit reuptake and release more dopamine.
treatment for adhd is definitely stigmatized here in the USA, I've always known ive had adhd but never got treatment until now, being 20 years old, after actively seeking it once I was an adult. but I'm very glad and privileged to now have the medical access that I do, and it's pretty wild and new to see... people that are just less privileged deal with things I got over, but they can't because what I did just isn't an option.
keep in mind adhd is very responsive to making an adhd friendly environment for yourself, so I hope you keep finding good ways of living ur best adhd life, therapist can help a lot with adhd too which surprised me at first but its very true, be well and good luck comrade
@@allergiccookies6735 That's the Philippines for you. Modafinil isn't even available normally here, let alone a low level amphetamine. And yet politicians can grab a hit of fentanyl whenever they want while poor people get shot over a bag of pot.
I'm lucky. I can basically manage about 85% of my getting shit together with self-applied cognitive behavioral therapy, and the fact that my autistic-ass brain decided its special interests were psychology and sociology and learning basically everything about those things.
The other 15% is sleep apnea leading to chronic energy deficiency, which has a solid chance of being the cause of all the significant ADHD symptoms by itself. One of these days I'll just borrow some spoons and get a sleep study so I can find out whether fixing that means I don't need to bother working around the limited access to psychiatric care here.
The amount of doses in 2.5 grams of heroin depends on the quality, the route of administration, and the tolerance of the individual. As a brief heroin addict I could go through 2 grams a week. According to the research i've read about ~4 grams of heroin a day seems to be the top of tolerances to heroin.
a little over half a g a day was my sweet spot. i could have done more but my addict brain was always planning on curbing withdrawal instead of getting really high so i would always save a bit for the morning so i could be straight while getting more money the next day to maintain. what a rough fucking life sheesh. been away from it for 9 years now thankfully
Talking about the first segment, I think a lot of the Canadian supremacy comes from the fact that US politics are all over the media, even up here, so people hear of all the problems in the US, while promptly ignoring how similar the two countries are. Plus there's that old joke about how peaceful and nice Canada is and I unironically think that a lot of those people forget its a meme.
I encountered a moose on the PCT in northern Washington. I had my headphones in and was jamming to Grateful Dead and didn't even notice it until it took off running behind me, away from me. I had passed right by it, probably about 20 feet away? It looked like a car moving away honestly.
Criminal lawyer here who works in BC. This is somewhat not news because police forces and prosecutors haven't been charging people for personal amounts of drug possession in BC for quite some time.
On the other hand, an explicit ban on criminalizing drug possession means the police no longer have probable grounds to search someone merely because they've spotted them possessing or using illegal drugs. So this might be protecting people's privacy more, to some extent.
I would probably watch an entire stream of just Mooselock.
Edit: The plural of "moose" is just moose, apparently.
It is, but for the sake of the band Meese, I am contractually obligated to disagree.
Moose shed their horns, but the blood comes from “velvet” which is a thin layer of skin with tons of blood vessels that pump blood into their horns so they grow fast. They shed it off during the mating season
Has bachelor's in debating. What is the plural of moose... "Meese? Messes?" Classic
I live in vancouver and the level of suffering and destitution in the downtown Eastside is absolutely criminal. Complete failure of government on every level and I have no idea what's the solution to help these people.
People might need to realise decriminalisation =/= legalisation
No one's gonna start a McCrack house.
I'll start a McCrack house excuse you. But mine will be used as a rehab clinic that will help addicts get back on their feet
I've never done hard drugs before but the moment it's legal I'm smoking crack.
Surprising considering the BCNDP is quite centrist like the Liberals (not the BC ones) despite supposedly being a party of labour.
This is unironically the best vod of Vaush I've ever watched.
I'm here for the five minute moose stunlock. Could've had a whole video of that honestly
Vaush's first point, on civil rights:
"I'm so pissed off at these people telling me Canada is different to the US, so I banned them all!"
Vaush's second point, on gun control in Canada (in literally the next breath)
"I don't care about gun laws in other countries, the US is uniquely different."
Such a debate bro lol
i love weed so i dont care about being addicted to it (that and the fact that weed has remarkably few drawbacks compared to harder drugs) but being addicted to codeine fucking sucked. pretty much all of what vaush said is just straight up true
you aren't addicted to weed. that's not a thing.
@@volusiasorange it very much is. you are coping
any stoner that says "you can't be addicted to weed" is coping AND seething. it's addictive and habit forming but it's withdrawal symptoms are extremely mild.
Ok but weed is an addictive habit like coffee or fast food.
You won’t die from withdrawal like from a hard drug. Please don’t muddle just how severe hard drugs are to your body
@@FernandoTorrera it's not muddling to say weed is addictive. Also coffee has CAFFEINE in it which is a very addictive drug. It's just legal. Fast food does not contain drugs or chemicals in it to make you want it, it's just fast and easy. Don't compare that shit to drugs.
Finally some American coverage of Canada that isn't a national embarrassment. It's been a while.
I didn't know people lived in Canada I thought it was just moose and beavers and Canadians
@@scottvelez3154 Now that you mention it, I haven't seen another human being here before.
@@scottvelez3154 Everyone in Canada is a Moose, beaver, goose or maple tree. Except the Quebeous. Sometimes they are snowmen.
"I tried a lot of drugs
I tried a lot of ladies
Some I probably wouldn't have tried if I wasn't on drugs"
5:56 in comparison to “how much of the drug” it is I would say for heroin atleast that’s like a little over two days worth for a kinda heavy daily user. Which I don’t see a user having more then that on there person at a given time. Throwing an addict in jail for having a needle or a couple bags doesn’t help them it just traumatizes them. Most people don’t stay clean after getting locked up briefly they need rehab or like mat (medical assisted treatment I just want people to stop dying. And yes nobody wants to be addicted waking up every day sick as shit chasing dope yeah being high is cool but after you’ve been an addict so long you don’t even get high anymore. You just have to do it to feel normal not sick. I think a lot of people would go into treatment if they had the support.
"Throwing an addict in jail for having a needle or a couple bags doesn’t help them it just traumatizes them."
I wonder if this could ever be healthy as a roleplay kink. But certainly real criminal charges are counterproductive.
@@synchronium24 it’s worth looking into for sure
@@synchronium24 Kinks are often ways for people to explore their fears in healthy ways by rendering them safe and controllable. So, about as safe as any other...
Moose are like spicy Canadian horses to Vaush.
I live in northern MN, you could definitely fuck up a moose w a 45. Js
Bottom line, addiction is a disease just like diabetes or Parkinson’s, and criminalizing people who suffer from a disease is demented and cruel. I’ve never done heroin, but I was an alcoholic and a cocaine addict for many years. Now I work at a drug and alcohol rehab and I’ve been clean for over three years. Decriminalization and safe injection sites can literally only help. Step two is Medicare for all free at point of service so anybody can attend a residential treatment facility, meet with a therapist, and get adequate psychiatric medication if they need it. Step three is federally guaranteed housing so drug addicts who have difficulty staying sober and can’t live in a sober home at least have a roof over their heads.
In Vancouver British Columbia there was already safe injection sites and needle exchange programs been running for years
I'm addicted to weed and I'm not sorry.
Drugs are not the problem.
Cartels and addiction are,
So the problem is not the substance, but people who abuse them in different ways?
If that’s the case then you could use a similar argument for guns, right?
Addiction happens regardless. Better to have social inclusion and data.
Far as the cartels.. American alcohol cartels haven't been an issue since last century. Maybe criminalization puts control into the hands of people who are profit motivated alone?
You misspelled capitalism
@@stormmcbeth5744 All of the most successful economies in human history were capitalist,
Meanwhile not a single communist nation existed that wasn't a fascist genocidal hellhole.
@@havenwalton7206 Have you not heard about drug smuggling cartels? Drugs are how they make most of their money.
i appreciate his honesty and vulnerability in this video, we need more people to speak up about the addictive influence of Cheese Cake Factory
Knew a guy who went moose hunting with his buddies in Alaska. Took seven people unloading into it with a mix of .223 and .308 and the moose still managed to charge a good 150 yards partially uphill.
A handgun ain't gonna do shit.
It works the other way around. The brain builds up a resistance to the dopamine. So you get less effect from the same amount. In the end, you have to take massive amounts just to get the same feeling as when you started, and that's when ODing happens.
If you hit a moose with a car it tumbles on top of the roof and crushes you. Very common cause of death in traffic.
Vaushs new pass or smash: the moose
dependence does not equal addiction. Heroin is used as a painkiller just like oxy or morphone in other countries.
looking at a moose is upsetting?! bah! i snuck up behind one once here in Utah. one of the dumbest and coolest moments ive ever had hebe
I think Portugal has actually had mixed results on the drug issue... That's what Philip DeFranco said anyway...
So I just got done smoking my second bowl and I gotta say, my grass is looking a lil different this time around. Little bit more like a habit and less like a lifestyle ya know?
I litreally started this topic, the man almost spent as much time ranting about moose as he did on the drugs.
opiates are the drug class best able to depict why strict criminalization of drugs doesnt work. Every single time they make it harder to access clean drugs and paraphernalia the more deaths, economic destruction, crime and generational trauma.
What is the difference between heroin and methadone? The ability for people to have constant and cheap access and avoid the ups and downs of withdrawl and drug searching completely disrupts the behavioral implications weve come to ascribe to opiate addicts.
The only reason methadone is better option is due to it length of effects. If we got people into a clinic to pick up their heroin or DOC, we could more easily target treatment services and harm reduction to those who need it.
It’s mad how cannabis is still a class B drug in the uk how are we so behind here
Only half based here. Only 10-20% of all drug users are addicts, and legalization is the way to solve most drug related social issues. Drugs are nowhere near as likely to cause addiction as people think. I.e. crack only has a 5% higher rate of addiction than alcohol, despite it’s primary user-base being people predisposed to addiction.
Addiction can also be prevented much more easily than cured. You can’t really help an addict in terms of getting clean. Sending people for “help” doesn’t actually work in most cases.
Addiction is more a side effect of social and mental circumstances than it is a core problem in a vacuum. It’s a symptom
Good take. What vaush missed a little bit is non addict hard drug consumers. Lotta my friends do a little MDMA or Ketamine or Speed on the weekends and are totally functioning, hard working human beings. Most of that is thanks to their good education and knowledge about the risks of drugs so they abide to safer use rules, know their dose and use test kits etc. Still due to the criminal justice system they are potential inmates, which is fucked.
I 99% agree but it's worth noting that the drugs you listed (besides speed) are not really that addictive.
MDMA is a strong stim that can cause psychological addiction in some cases sure, but it causes massive serotonergic downregulation and tolerance such that it rarely does. You can't abuse MDMA at the same rate as meth or speed, it simply will not work, and most people will find that even doing it more than once a month will make them "lose the magic" and have terrible side effects.
Ketamine can likewise sometimes be psychologically addictive, but rarely, since it doesn't release any monoamines (i.e. dopamine, serotonin). In fact it's often used to treat addictions and can in some cases reverse deficits associated with stimulants via NMDA antagonism.
I litteraly have to drink coffee and even that is bad. Like it did jack for me since i was realy used to it but not drinking it makes me sleepy , angry , less mentaly capable and it gives me tons of headaches. I tryed to stop drinking it for 30 days and now i cannot drink it as much as i need to get the headache go away compleatly because if i do i can't sleep. I had 4 days of no sleep at some point.
Coffee in question is about 20 shots of espresso dayly.
Now i am just drinking watered down coldbred instead of water watering it down a bit more every week.
Edit:400 mg is the limit for safe caffeine
20 shots is about 1500 mg.
More than 3 times the limit. I stoped due to hearth complications.
I have a chekup once every 6 months and i am 19.
Drinking 2-3 coffees a day is a slippery slope. All those coffee addicts were once 2-3 coffees per day kinda people.
Luv my city lol also this was needed. We have so many fucking addicts. Kids start doing drugs at 14 here, including my friends & i. Shits crazy
Oregon? I mean, you live just a few miles north of me man, we have this same law
I still disagree about your first bit regarding the use of emergency powers. I agree the ability to have that power is dangerous, but I also think that just like with various other powers currently available to your own government, it is necessary, albeit needs to be heavily scrutinized and has to immediately trigger review by as impartial entities as we can get. In your own country you were able to do what we did immediately and to less effect. By contrast as someone who had friends living downtown Ottawa, it was literally their homes being held hostage by people. The use of emergency powers was by and large required in Ottawa as multiple agencies got brought in and coordinated in such a way that allowed for essentially no blood shed. The police were down right too non aggressive, but the reality is it is more effective. This wasn't the first time something like this happened exactly but this time it was actually handled well. These powers are fine so long as they're held with appropiate checks and balances. The ability to protest is crucial without a doubt but we all struggle to find the line between protest vs riot VS occupation. These right winger nut jobs weren't calling for policy change but government Change. Would that qualify as insurrection?
We got our problems here but having those emergency powers are needed. When shit hits the fan there and we start taking American refugees en masse, those same powers will be triggered to allow rapid set up, bank accounts, you name it.
Also your love of moose rocks haha they're cute asf. Oddly most of our moose seem to be on one of our islands haha.
As for the wolf comment about hunting them, generally apex predators aren't the ones you need to manage and are key stone animals. It's why when they reintroduced wolves into certain areas biodiversity actually goes up and overall health does as well.
The Flap Nose on this moose looks like a Mule's Flop Nose, also my pet Donkey nose was Floppy Nose and He would Laugh like a Kackass when I tickled his haunches, I miss my donkey.
as an ex addict, I gotta say that thumbnail is pre effin rough man. makin my feet sweat out here. not to be the triggered guy in the comments but it's literally triggering to see that stuff
I’ve literally never met a “functioning addict” that is actually doing well or that doesn’t turn into a degenerate bc they refuse to get help. The very least you need to do is acknowledge that it’s a problem.
*That you know of
I work in healthcare and I've seen people like this. They are real. They spend decades doing hard drugs making big bucks and nobody knew about it and nobody targeted them and eventually they got a stroke to the brain but they never went to jail for it because they were white.
@@havenwalton7206 depends on the definition of "functioning addict". I know folks that shit on the sidewalk, sleep in a tent and end up in the hospital a few times a month. If you ask them they would say they are "functioning addicts". I also know folks that are trapped in a cycle and want out but due to trauma always end up back on drugs to cope. I also live in vancouver BC and deal with the marginalized folk a lot.
Thinking of people as degenerates is way more indicative of a problem, on average, unless that was meant to be ironic.
15:03 I too have noticed this
As a Washingtonian I welcome the progressive and forward thinking BC/Cascade. May your future look brighter and hope the grass is sincerely greater on the other side.
@killercaos123 As a British Columbian I hope B.C. leaves Canada and Washington Oregon and Idaho somehow find a way to join us.
finna have a hell of a friday night!!!!!
It crazy how many people are against decriminalization and safe injection kits, which have been proven to be effective, because oh no scary drug bad.
oh hey that's me, your hat.
don't kill the polar bears or the moose, just do the normal survival strategy that everyone does, run away
Moose look like they should have gone extinct after the ice age
Got drunk, smoked a blunt, snorted some coke, got back home safe, Simple As Bruv.