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What is your opinion about street drugs?

de Alkanadi, 18 august 2015

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Alkanadi (Arată profil) 18 august 2015, 09:36:39

What is your opinion about street drugs?

Miland (Arată profil) 18 august 2015, 09:45:20

They don't belong in gufujoj (ah, that's how this relates to Esperanto. ridulo.gif )

Alkanadi (Arată profil) 18 august 2015, 15:07:07

Miland:They don't belong in gufujoj (ah, that's how this relates to Esperanto. ridulo.gif )
I just wanted to see if Esperantists are more likely to support or discourage their use.

erinja (Arată profil) 18 august 2015, 15:33:23

Miland:They don't belong in gufujoj (ah, that's how this relates to Esperanto. ridulo.gif )
+1

Matthieu (Arată profil) 18 august 2015, 17:25:58

Drugs are bad, m'kay.

Why don't you ask this question in the Esperanto forum?

Tempodivalse (Arată profil) 18 august 2015, 18:27:30

Semi-on-topic: I would be interested to know what percentage of Esperantists are teetotalers (besides me ridulo.gif) - they are rare among the general population where I live, even among religious people, and as far as I can tell, teetotalism seems even rarer among Esperanto speakers.

In general, my observation is that Esperantists are more permissive towards drugs/intoxicants than average. This is probably what motivated the original poster to make this thread, though I agree it should be on the Esperanto forum.

(OK, so alcohol isn't a street drug. ridulo.gif)

erinja (Arată profil) 18 august 2015, 19:03:28

I think Esperanto has both ends of the spectrum on teetotalers versus drinkers.

I am not a teetotaler, I drink for religious reasons, but I don't really like the taste and I don't drink alcohol for pleasure. At home without guests I usually use grape juice instead of wine for whatever religious practices require something grapey.

Vestitor (Arată profil) 18 august 2015, 19:18:50

I don't know how true this is (I've never been to a big Esperanto conference), but I imagine the Esperanto movement is a bit like the youth socialist movement or green movements when it comes to topics like this. So open-minded your brain falls out.

It's always something that has irritated me. I remember going to the Amsterdam Marxism weekend (not recommended as a weekend break) and during the meetings and in the evenings nearly everyone was drunk as a lord and and even people who didn't usually smoke weed were trying it. It gets to be de rigueur and viewed as either a protest or an act of 'freedom', when really it's just plain old getting stoned.

Am I completely wrong about this with regard to Esperanto?

Tempodivalse (Arată profil) 18 august 2015, 19:37:29

Am I completely wrong about this with regard to Esperanto?
I don't have much in-person experience with Esperanto culture outside of my local club, but what you've described seems to hold true for most youth culture, (especially in parts of Europe, plus the UK/US South, which have a difficult relationship with alcohol). During my time at university I knew of exactly two people besides me who didn't drink (excluding health reasons), and many people were not new to pot.

I wonder if this isn't mostly a generational difference. I can't envision the 50+ Esperanto crowd getting stoned on a regular basis.

KStef (Arată profil) 18 august 2015, 20:12:01

"Difficult relationship with alcohol" means they cannot drink much or they can drink much?
I think it would be more healthy if cannabis would be legal. It should be cheaper and contain less THC substances than now.
Sorry for mistakes.

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