Mild Drugs Can Be Legalized or All Drugs Should Be Strictly Forbidden MILD DRUGS – YES OR NO? Mild Drugs Can Be Legalized or All Drugs Should Be Strictly Forbidden PRO OR CON?

QUESTIONNAIRE Mild drugs (class C drugs) … Yes No - can make you a drug addict - can be legalized How much can different drugs damage your health? Put a tick. No risk Little risk Great risk I don’t know Is there a chance to give up taking drugs? Yes No Is it possible to prevent the spread of drugs in Russia? The alternative to drugs is __________________________

QUESTIONNAIRE total 23 people 17 people think that class C drugs may result in drug addiction.12 people think that class C drugs can be legalized. All people think that cocaine and heroin can damage health greatly. 9 people are optimistic and think it’s possible to give up taking drugs. But 15 people are pessimistic about the possibility to prevent the spread of drugs in Russia.

PRO CON we shouldn’t legalize mild drugs because it can make the situation with drug abuse worse legalizing pot is better for the society than prohibition - it’s protection of human rights

PRO CON teens can smoke pot if they want to – it’s their life, they are free to decide it’s a crime to make pot legally available; it’s a crime against the future generations

PRO CON pot doesn’t increase cancer risk unlike tobacco, hemp is used in medicine mild drugs cause health problems as any drugs do

PRO CON smoking cigarettes and drinking alcohol is worse than smoking pot smoking grass is as dangerous as drinking alcohol

PRO CON there haven’t been any long-term studies on marijuana that can prove its ruining effect; lots of people have tried mild drugs without any harm scientists have proved that mild drugs cause a flash back; the developing flash back may result in heroin usage which is taken by injections; this causes such socially dangerous diseases as AIDS

PRO CON the legalizing of Cannabis would remove the “criminality gateway” and limit access to harder drugs such as heroin all pot smokers are potential criminals; pot pushers make money by involving teens into drug usage and selling pot in the street

PRO CON legalizing pot is successfully applied in the Netherlands legalizing drugs in the Netherlands has made more teens use drugs

PRO CON those who smoke pot do not conform to society standards to smoke grass is a tradition of the hippie community

PRO CON taking mild drugs reduces suicide rates pot smokers often commit suicide

DEATH RATE 1970 JIMI HENDRIX (28 YEARS) had problems with drugs and alcohol died in bed after taking nineteen Seconal sleeping pills and choking on his own vomit

1977 ELVIS PRESLEY (42 years) suffered from severe insomnia; by 1962 he was taking sedatives to get to sleep; as a result he had to take amphetamine to wake up died of a heart attack caused by drug abuse

1993 IGOR CHUMYCHKIN (CHUMA), guitar, “ALISA“ (28 years) committed suicide falling out of the window of his Moscow flat believed he could fly in his ‘trips’

1994 KURT COBAIN (27 years) had heroin addiction suffered from depression committed suicide; report concluded Cobain's death as a result of a "self-inflicted shotgun wound to the head"

1981 BOB MARLEY (36 years) had a form of skin cancer, malignant melanoma, which grew under his toenail the cancer spread to his brain, his lungs, and his stomach was buried with his guitar, a bud of marijuana and a Bible