Is It Ok to Get High?

Is it ok to get high - PT 1
Is it OK to get high, get blasted, get wasted, get lit? Cocaine, Weed, Meth, Alcohol, Vicodin, Syrup, Valium, etc ... Is it only bad when it's illegal or is the act of getting high wrong period?. | listen to audio archive

Is it ok to get high - PT 2
Is it OK to get high, get blasted, get wasted, get lit? Cocaine, Weed, Meth, Alcohol, Vicodin, Syrup, Valium, etc ... Is it only bad when it's illegal or is the act of getting high wrong period?. Our young people, and drug users speak out on this important and interesting topic. | listen to audio archive

DRUG ADDICTION: Drug addiction is a condition characterized by compulsive drug intake, craving and seeking, despite what the majority of society may perceive as the negative consequences associated with drug use.[8]Some Airports Say It's OK to "Get High" With Medical Marijuana. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drug_use)

RECREATIONAL DRUG USE: Recreational drug use is the use of psychoactive drugs for recreational purposes rather than for work, medical or spiritual purposes, although the distinction is not always clear. At least one psychopharmacologist who has studied this field refers to it as the 'Fourth Drive,' arguing that the human instinct to seek mind-altering substances has so much force and persistence that it functions like the human drives for hunger, thirst and shelter. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drug_use)

GATEWAY DRUG THEORY: The gateway drug theory is the hypothesis that the use of soft drugs leads to a higher, future risk of hard drug use and crime.[2] The term is also used to describe introductory experiences to addictive substances. Some believe[3][4][5] tobacco, alcohol, and marijuana are gateway drugs.

RESPONSIBLE DRUG USE: The concept of responsible drug use is that a person can use recreational drugs with reduced or eliminated risk of negatively affecting other parts of one's life or other people's lives. Advocates of this idea point to the many well-known artists and intellectuals who have used drugs, experimentally or otherwise, with few detrimental effects on their lives. Critics argue that the drugs are escapist--and dangerous, unpredictable and sometimes addictive; thus predicating the idea of a responsible use of drugs as an idea, ultimately disputable upon debate.
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Some research suggests that serious drug abusers adopt a typical drug use sequence with use of other drugs initiated before marijuana or alcohol.[6] There are many pharmacological similarities between various drugs of abuse. Individual social histories show that "hard" drug users do progress from one drug to another, but the reasons are not clear enough to generalise a gateway.[7]

Some people have suggested that "soft" drugs such as marijuana are only a gateway because the same people selling marijuana are also the ones selling hard drugs, and that association is more to blame than the drugs themselves. This cannot be proven, however, as no credible research has been done on the topic.

QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS FROM - http://answers.yahoo.com/

While local laws may vary from state to state, some airports in the San Francisco Bay Area allow up to eight ounces of marijuana for card-carrying medical marijuana patients. Police say the policy at San Francisco International Airport echoes the city guidelines used in San Francisco proper. The same goes for Oakland International Airport in Oakland, Calif. - more info at

http://industry.bnet.com/travel/10003858/airports-and-medical-marijuana/

Aspirin, Advil, Motrin, Ibuprofen, Aleve: will not only not get you high but in large amounts will cause internal (stomach) bleeding and ulcers.

Tylenol (and the other stuff that says "acetaminophen") will cause liver failure if taken in large doses