Everything You Know About Drugs Is Wrong | Rhal Ssan | TEDxWarwickSalon

This talk will be considering society’s use of drugs and why, throughout history, mankind has consistently turned to them. This will then lead to whether we should replace alcohol as the main recreational drug of use with MDMA (ecstasy).
Rhal Ssan is in his final year studying Philosophy, Politics and Economics. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx

[@Jack-ny7kn]

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-pp1yi]

T H I S

[@braders96]

Couldn't agree more with that!

[@isaiahgarcia7456]

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.

[@erincoppola4103]

@@isaiahgarcia7456 agreed.

[@tammyrobinson1613]

And how trauma and stress effects drug use, legal and legal.... including sugar!

[@stepi9441]

Watching this and reading the comments while high feels extremely trippy

[@solomontruthlover5308]

High on what

[@flashstyx715]

I’m high on Marijuana and watching this makes me happy too.

[@switchblade8028]

@@flashstyx715 bruh get help , no offence

[@asdfg4330]

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.

[@moneygrinds4216]

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]

The difference is you can’t overdose on weed. mean you can only over do it

[@wakkowarner8810]

LSD and Shrooms are the safest drugs out there according to the graph that he showed.

[@Jack-ny7kn]

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.

[@wakkowarner8810]

@@Jack-ny7kn lsd is safe. the danger is that people are passing off dangerous RCs as lsd

[@zachzorn9930]

I'd put DMT highest on the list

[@zachzorn9930]

@@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

[@coachjah4439]

Wanna mail me some I'll mail money back don't believe me then you won't make a second transaction

[@sveinmagnus2950]

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

[@statzszn]

I swear bruh

[@tippnerxx]

Facts

[@kalaiolele8796]

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.

[@FIDIOT-cringe]

"If negative consequences cured addiction, there'd be no addicts." -Dr Gabor Maté

[@krystlesmith9810]

Thank you!

[@krystlesmith9810]

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-cringe]

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." 🤗

[@nanzbrown1467]

Great great talk

[@ModernConversations]

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.

[@AG-iu9lv]

Excellent talk, made better by the voice/accent.

[@StuntmanDan03]

beautiful

[@andysalinas162]

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]

Maybe we cant but even with the moat dangerous drugs addicts are a small minority and punishing them has not worked .

[@bradleyc79]

Great work

[@senamrabtendorji2295]

Government needs to hear it!

[@francismausley7239]

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

[@senorjoel6880]

thank you for opening my eyes to drugs

[@switchblade8028]

why is this video not mch viewed , it was awesome !

[@room4110]

Dhal Ssan. Rhan Ssal. Sinny. Sin. Drome. Ant. Whatever you are called, you are a special man. Congrats

[@hristiankrastev3343]

Wow that really changed my understandings of alcohol ahahha

[@dexterbeagle6732]

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.

[@hsidlihc]

yeah, actually, lots of famous scientists actually used drugs too. HUH.

[@mavraganisx]

I ATE THE DRUG WAR TOR BREAKFAST 🥞

[@coverthecanvas4978]

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.

[@colmmcnulty5359]

or just Food in general

[@lmnts556]

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-cteur]

@@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-su4tr]

I hate sweet food it makes me nauseous and also well die without glucose how's that a drug wtf

[@jonaflynn74]

Because it doesn’t alter your state of mind and perception of reality.

[@VenusLover17]

❤❤

[@mikegrecamusic5917]

Great talk, but It should have been called ‘everything Most of you know about drugs is right.’

[@juanjosevanegas5282]

Quien vino sólo por una tarea de ingles :v

[@11codyhale]

Dude has the same facial features and expressions and even the accent is the same as Milo

[@erincoppola4103]

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 :)

[@catherinemartinez7834]

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 👎🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@south1328]

Don’t wake people up shhhhhhh

[@5688gamble]

20000 spliffs in 15 minutes? That's not even a decent buzz! You really aren't fully experiencing what cannabis has to offer!

[@asdfg4330]

The new generation will fix everything.

[@winwift]

Drug are from smart people.

[@Ace01234k]

This dude clearly not talking from experience just look at him lol

[@TheFitGamer]

Drugs have destroyed many people Ik that’s all ima day simple as that

[@iamkubic]

any addiction can destroy people

[@asdfg4330]

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.

[@pavlekovacevic1676]

@@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

[@erincoppola4103]

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......

[@serialsbabydaddy8787]

@@asdfg4330 has nothing to do with playing video games 💀💀💀

[@justinohare297]

dont waste 16 minutes of your life

[@user-ug9dw7ic8j]

Just don’t do drugs man, it’s not cool

[@chetansharma163]

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]

How about mind your business.

[@creativesource3514]

So we should ban alcohol as well then. :-)

[@Impetuss]

Or let people use what they want, Portugal did and it worked out good for them

[@aliensystem1528]

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-ny7kn]

Yea, we tried that in the US, and it didn't go so well for us...

[@pavlekovacevic1676]

We should

[@999Wayno]

Then people would just make a way to make alcohol banning stuff wont make a change really

[@vivekprataprai2433]

Well any kind of addiction is bad in a nutshell :) ban everything that causes addiction

[@HikeRx]

This guy doesn't know much about drugs.

[@jonvontrapp9532]

And you do?

[@HikeRx]

@@jonvontrapp9532 ...yes. I have a doctorate degree in pharmacology.

[@ob1934]

@@HikeRx well what specifically did he say that you disagree with

[@HikeRx]

@@ob1934 .... it's what he doesn't say. He lacks differential specificity when discussing drugs. He doesn't go into pharmacology, pharmacokinetics, pharmaceutics, etc.

[@arterial5177]

@@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.

[@GENX80.]

fuk this guy