Are drugs bad

Answer 1

Such as question can not be answered with a simple yes or no. Drugs isn't one single thing, it is an enormous group of hundreds of different substances, each one is different and no two drugs are the same. To say drugs are "good" or "bad" would be an enormous over-generalisation at the least. However to give you a short and simple answer, if you think that Alcohol and Tobacco aren't bad, then "drugs" aren't bad either, since Alcohol and Tobacco are the worst of all the recreationally used drugs. They are the only two drugs which are known carcinogens (chemicals which can cause cancer). Each one (Alcohol & Tobacco) on their own also causes more fatalities and addictions than all the other drugs combined. But that's just generalisations, for a longer answer read the rest below.

Drugs is the name used for a large family of different classes of drugs (stimulants, dissociatives, psychedelics, opioids, tranquillisers), the total number of recreational drugs and pharmaceutical drugs also used recreationally runs into the many hundreds or even a thousand different substances. All of them have different properties and effects by which they are characterised. To say "drugs are bad" is an over generalisation at best, and total nonsense at worst. A lot of research has been done to the most popular recreational drugs, and all of them have come to the conclusion that the two most dangerous and addictive drugs are both legally available in every nation in the Western-world, and many nations throughout the rest of the planet as well. Those two drugs are Alcohol and Tobacco.

If used responsibly and with common sense, doing some research on their effects and important precautions, almost every drug is safer than Alcohol or Tobacco and the vast majority of drugs is less addictive than Alcohol or Tobacco. The most dangerous thing about many drugs is their unknown purity and dosages because, inherently caused by their illegal status. The lack of unbiased, fact-based education among pre-teens and kids in their early teens is also what makes many drugs more dangerous then they really are. Both these dangers could be drastically reduced by governments globally but due to the war on drugs, for most countries this is not likely to happen in the foreseeable future.