From a societal perspective, we need to accept that drug use is a personal choice that governments can't control in any free and open society. From an individual perspective, we need to accept that drugs in any form are extremely harmful if not taken in extreme moderation. Instead of brainwashing kids into believing drugs are always bad, we need to be teaching them the arts of self control, self awareness, and delaying gratification.
@No-pp1yi4 жыл бұрын
T H I S
@braders964 жыл бұрын
Couldn't agree more with that!
@isaiahgarcia74564 жыл бұрын
Yeah, that’s WOULD be nice but unfortunately human biology can be pretty damn unforgiving with even the smallest of doses of certain drugs. If addiction was beat so easily with self control then why are we having a obesity epidemic. Sorry but while I agree that legislation shouldn’t be the first option sometimes it’s the best option.
@erincoppola41034 жыл бұрын
@@isaiahgarcia7456 agreed.
@tammyrobinson16133 жыл бұрын
And how trauma and stress effects drug use, legal and legal.... including sugar!
@stepi94415 жыл бұрын
Watching this and reading the comments while high feels extremely trippy
@solomonherskowitz4 жыл бұрын
High on what
@flashstyx7154 жыл бұрын
I’m high on Marijuana and watching this makes me happy too.
@switchblade80283 жыл бұрын
@@flashstyx715 bruh get help , no offence
@asdfg43304 жыл бұрын
Illegal drugs should be treated the same as legal drugs. You’re not supposed to take adderall 10 times a day every single day, same goes for marijuana.
@moneygrinds42163 жыл бұрын
Adderall last all day so you shouldn't take it everyday but the doctor prescribes it multiple times a day chill out on coming for weed bro.
@Ace01234k Жыл бұрын
The difference is you can’t overdose on weed. mean you can only over do it
@wakkowarner88106 жыл бұрын
LSD and Shrooms are the safest drugs out there according to the graph that he showed.
@Jack-ny7kn6 жыл бұрын
Don't know about LSD being safe, but psilocybin mushrooms and peyote may be the only completely naturally occurring drugs on earth, that don't require any cultivation, preparation, etc. on our parts. Even marijuana, which everyone thinks of being the most natural drug on earth, isn't psychoactive in its naturally occurring, wild form.
@wakkowarner88106 жыл бұрын
@@Jack-ny7kn lsd is safe. the danger is that people are passing off dangerous RCs as lsd
@zachzorn99304 жыл бұрын
I'd put DMT highest on the list
@zachzorn99304 жыл бұрын
@@Jack-ny7kn DMT is the most natural. We don't even need to harvest DMT. You are holding right now... now what the strongest drug in the world is doing inside your head. I don't have answers to that yet
@coachjah44394 жыл бұрын
Wanna mail me some I'll mail money back don't believe me then you won't make a second transaction
@sveinmagnus29505 жыл бұрын
This video has criminally few views compared to the value of what he's saying. This should be taught in school, not be reserved for those interested in finding it
@statzszn3 жыл бұрын
I swear bruh
@tippnerxx3 жыл бұрын
Facts
@kalaiolele87962 жыл бұрын
I have never seen someone stoned on weed, coke, shrooms, or any other illegal/recreational beat or violate anyone....alcohol, I've seen and experienced violent drunks to often. I myself spent a month in a coma, 6 months in a hospital, a month in a rehab hospital and 5 years of mental and physical therapy because I was hit by a drunk driver. He and his companion died.
@senamrabtendorji22952 жыл бұрын
Government needs to hear it!
@ModernConversations3 жыл бұрын
It’s incredible that you have lived in a society for so long and focused so singularly on science that you expect society to conform to scientific rationale.
@dexterbeagle67324 жыл бұрын
I’m surprised that people think drugs are bad or harmful or the cause of addiction. They aren’t. There is nothing endogenous about drugs that causes addiction. Addiction is the result of a combination of things: mental illness, poverty, child abuse, and the response is adding drugs to untreated mental illness with limited resources causes “addiction.” But this is rare compared to the benefits. It is sad that people think drugs are bad when in really they are good for you. No one should be forced to take drugs but adults should be allowed to control their consciousness; right now we live in a totalitarian legal system where the US government says citizens do not have a right to their minds, the government controls it, but people seem to find this be fine.
@FIDIOT-cringe3 жыл бұрын
"If negative consequences cured addiction, there'd be no addicts." -Dr Gabor Maté
@krystlesmith98102 жыл бұрын
Thank you!
@krystlesmith98102 жыл бұрын
Do you happen to have anymore great quotes you can post for me? Its something totally not fun for you to do, yet it would mean A LOT to me .. .. :)
@FIDIOT-cringe2 жыл бұрын
Sure. That's from Dr Gabor Matè. He also said "The question is not 'Why the addictio? but 'Why the pain?" He's got a lot of videos here on KZbin. Also watch "Everything you know about addiction is wrong." 🤗
@andysalinas1626 жыл бұрын
This guy is handsome, intelligent, polished appearance, and well spoken. These are the types of people we need speaking about this subject. When you have someone who dresses and looks like a bum he/she loses all credibility because that is the image associated with drug users. Recreational drug use is ok but abuse is bad. Most addicts have emotional personalities and seek instant gratification. They lack discipline. How can we teach drug attics addicts discipline?
@bobjary9382 Жыл бұрын
Maybe we cant but even with the moat dangerous drugs addicts are a small minority and punishing them has not worked .
@francismausley72396 жыл бұрын
Excepting medical use, an initial & healthy outlook would be "total abstinence from all alcoholic drinks, from opium, and from similar habit-forming drugs." - Baha'i Thought
@bradleyc79 Жыл бұрын
Great work
@erincoppola41034 жыл бұрын
Disclaimer: This TED speaker is studying Philosophy. He is NOT a medical doctor/ chemist/ biochemist etc. He is speculating on social behaviors and patterns. Please take medical advice from those who are qualified to give the medical advice :)
@AG-iu9lv5 жыл бұрын
Excellent talk, made better by the voice/accent.
@This-ones-on-her3 жыл бұрын
beautiful
@senorjoel68804 жыл бұрын
thank you for opening my eyes to drugs
@room41106 жыл бұрын
Dhal Ssan. Rhan Ssal. Sinny. Sin. Drome. Ant. Whatever you are called, you are a special man. Congrats
@switchblade80283 жыл бұрын
why is this video not mch viewed , it was awesome !
@hristiankrastev33433 жыл бұрын
Wow that really changed my understandings of alcohol ahahha
@coverthecanvas49786 жыл бұрын
What is the most used addictive drug on the planet? Sugar! What you don't think sugar is a drug? Reference the definition of 'drug' at the beginning of this video.
@colmmcnulty53596 жыл бұрын
or just Food in general
@lmnts5566 жыл бұрын
Colm McNulty No, because sugar is altered sugar that is very bad for your health, while foods straight from nature is fine and also healthy.
@le-cteur6 жыл бұрын
@@JohnMcSayer Sugar indeed causes levels of dopamine and serotonine to raise, it tricks you with it's taste, sweet taste is just one that people recognize as 'full of pleasure' (you can google why, taste isn't any information about wheter substance is good for you or not), so in fact - it's drug like any other. Therefore you may get addicted to it, when you eat it in large, unnatural quantities (drinking Cola often will do). Fun part is, that it's physically doing only harm to you and gives you just a sweet taste, so it's one of the worst drugs in the world for sure. Also a fun thing is, that legal drugs are the one, that destroys most people. People should change their mind about what drugs are as soon as it's possible
@MB-su4tr5 жыл бұрын
I hate sweet food it makes me nauseous and also well die without glucose how's that a drug wtf
@jonaflynn744 жыл бұрын
Because it doesn’t alter your state of mind and perception of reality.
@VenusLover179 ай бұрын
❤❤
@hsidlihc3 жыл бұрын
yeah, actually, lots of famous scientists actually used drugs too. HUH.
@mikegrecamusic59173 жыл бұрын
Great talk, but It should have been called ‘everything Most of you know about drugs is right.’
@Zaethefitgamer4 жыл бұрын
Drugs have destroyed many people Ik that’s all ima day simple as that
@iamkubic4 жыл бұрын
any addiction can destroy people
@asdfg43304 жыл бұрын
Ive seen video game addiction destroy someones life. So by your logic video games destroy people even though so many people play video games without problems just like people take drugs without problems. Its addiction.
@pavlekovacevic16764 жыл бұрын
@@asdfg4330 drugs in total killed or made millions of people sick world wide and you are comparing that to playing minecraft and cod?Sounds like we found drug addict
@erincoppola41034 жыл бұрын
Yup. Drug addiction takes lives and has zero mercy. It’s not safe for people to condone their use with no qualifications to do so......
@serialsbabydaddy87872 жыл бұрын
@@asdfg4330 has nothing to do with playing video games 💀💀💀
@mavraganisx5 жыл бұрын
I ATE THE DRUG WAR TOR BREAKFAST 🥞
@winwift4 жыл бұрын
Drug are from smart people.
@5688gamble3 жыл бұрын
20000 spliffs in 15 minutes? That's not even a decent buzz! You really aren't fully experiencing what cannabis has to offer!
@juanjosevanegas52826 жыл бұрын
Quien vino sólo por una tarea de ingles :v
@catherinemartinez7834 Жыл бұрын
They could have brought me up there to speak about crack because I was a crackhead was was was was was it was it was but since I was not no more crack head or heart I'm not a crackhead I need a job 👎🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@11codyhale3 жыл бұрын
Dude has the same facial features and expressions and even the accent is the same as Milo
@south13282 жыл бұрын
Don’t wake people up shhhhhhh
@asdfg43304 жыл бұрын
The new generation will fix everything.
@justinohare297 Жыл бұрын
dont waste 16 minutes of your life
@Ace01234k Жыл бұрын
This dude clearly not talking from experience just look at him lol
@心中-y4e4 жыл бұрын
Just don’t do drugs man, it’s not cool
@chetansharma1632 жыл бұрын
Why there is so much effort nowdays for normalizing the use of drugs. I don't understand why most of the people in favor of drugs quote that it was used in history that's why there is no problem in it. In history we also had slavery does this make slavery is good.
@joemahma3017 Жыл бұрын
How about mind your business.
@HikeRx5 жыл бұрын
This guy doesn't know much about drugs.
@jonvontrapp95325 жыл бұрын
And you do?
@HikeRx5 жыл бұрын
@@jonvontrapp9532 ...yes. I have a doctorate degree in pharmacology.
@ob19345 жыл бұрын
@@HikeRx well what specifically did he say that you disagree with
@HikeRx5 жыл бұрын
@@ob1934 .... it's what he doesn't say. He lacks differential specificity when discussing drugs. He doesn't go into pharmacology, pharmacokinetics, pharmaceutics, etc.
@arterial51774 жыл бұрын
@@HikeRx So, just because he didn't dive head-first into your particular profession, you've come to the ridiculous conclusion that he doesn't know much about drugs? I'm sorry, but I really can't take your comment seriously. Of course he knows a lot about drugs. You've replied stating that you are knowledgeable about this, but my question to you would be... Why aren't you giving a Ted Talk about drugs? It just feels like you're being that heckler in the third row. I have no qualms in admitting that you know a lot more about drugs than a lot of people. Although, it's abundantly clear to me that you think pharmaceutical related things make you a drug expert, when actually, it makes you an expert in that particular field. Sure, it spans a lot of drug related issues, but I bet I could ask you a dozen questions about drugs that I could almost guarantee you wouldn't know the answer to. Kindly, lower the jealously, and accept the fact that he was given this Ted Talk for a reason.
@vivekprataprai24333 жыл бұрын
Well any kind of addiction is bad in a nutshell :) ban everything that causes addiction
@creativesource35146 жыл бұрын
So we should ban alcohol as well then. :-)
@Impetuss6 жыл бұрын
Or let people use what they want, Portugal did and it worked out good for them
@aliensystem15286 жыл бұрын
if any drug should be illegal, it should be alcohol. Of course no drug should be illegal, as it's no one's business but my own what i choose to put in my body or affect my consciousness.
@Jack-ny7kn6 жыл бұрын
Yea, we tried that in the US, and it didn't go so well for us...
@pavlekovacevic16764 жыл бұрын
We should
@999Wayno3 жыл бұрын
Then people would just make a way to make alcohol banning stuff wont make a change really