Absolutely! Nor should Meth, XTC or WEED be used either!

All these drugs not only lift the lid on what's really going on inside an individual, but give 'permission' and 'enabling' for it to come out, on, and at all those around! Consequences be damned, 'I'm having fun' and 'feeling good'. We don't want ANY moral taboos....except of course the moral taboo on moral taboos, oh, and yeah, by the way 'moral' outrage if the activities outcomes 'hurt' someone else! (By whatever definition of 'hurt' you care to employ in any particular amoral setting!)

What generates even more cognitive dissonance is that there is a small and noisy (often media supported) demographic that want us to legalize even more of these psychotropic, harm bringing, community destroying toxins into an already dysfunctional and 'amoral' culture and they think that’s going to make our society ‘better’???

Who is driving this agenda? You don't have to look far to find the answer to that!

No Drugs – NO EXCUSES!

A wristband that lets wearers check if their drink has been spiked with a date rape drug has gone on sale in Germany.

How the wristband works

To use the wristband users stir their drink with a straw.

They then place a few drops on the white band and wait two minutes, if the test area turns blue they know their drink has been spiked.

Kim says that it is already having a positive impact on young women's lives.

"We donated some to a group of girls and they told me that they really like the wristbands. It makes them feel more aware and more safe.

"I also gave a girl a wristband and afterwards she was in conversation with a boy at a party and he asked her what it was.

"She told him 'it's a wristband that protects me from date rape drugs' and he was like 'wow' and he stepped back. She said it made her feel very strong."

"What happened to the girl at the festival felt so close to me. As if this could have happened to me and, I realised the danger so of course I have the wristband with me when I go out."

Eventually Kim would like to make products which can detect other drugs.

For complete story

30 April 2019 https://doi.org/10.1111/dar.12933

Abstract

Introduction and Aims: Public support for restrictions on late night trading of licensed venues increased substantially between 2001 and 2013, a period with very few policy interventions in Australia. In early 2014 a set of high profile restrictions were introduced in Sydney, New South Wales. In this study, we examine whether these 2014 policy interventions affected public support for late trading restrictions.

Discussion and Conclusion: Support for late trading restrictions fell sharply, especially among those affected in New South Wales. Advocates for public health‐oriented alcohol policy restrictions need to pay attention to public support in the aftermath of policy ‘wins’.

30 April 2019 https://doi.org/10.1111/dar.12929

Abstract

Introduction and Aims: We tested whether incidental exposure to alcohol marketing messages in sporting events: (i) influenced automatic evaluation of brands and alcohol in general; and (ii) if these processes occur through deliberative (conscious) or non‐conscious processes.

Results: We found a positive main effect of incidental exposure to alcohol brands on indirect measures of attitudes toward alcohol as well as the specific brand. No effect of cognitive fatigue on indirect measure toward brands and alcohol was observed.

Discussion and Conclusions: Incidental exposure to alcohol marketing messages appear to impact indirect measures of attitudes toward the brand and alcohol in general, and seems to rely on non‐conscious automatic processes.