What do you think about this phrase - The thread got resolved, thank you guys. I love you all. -

I like it, no matter the obvi propaganda. Mostly cause, drugs are bad.

Edit: I just realized, this must be quite the comment coming from the Cheshire cat. ^^

I think the phrase is dumb, but the point of the phrase is right.

When I was very young, I got pretty crook. If it wasn't for the drugs the hospital gave me, the only thing I'd have won would be a long sleep beneath a little infant sized tombstone in the corner of the Waikikamukau municipal graveyard.

Not all drugs are created alike...

Sergeant Rex Power Colt says it best.

Unless, you know, you're Lance Armstrong.

If you know an addict or two, it helps you understand that sentence.

I think about arcade beat em ups.

I associate it with kids. This could be wrong, but is there campaign targeted towards kids where they use this phrase? I'm not from USA, but I'm thinking it's there for some reason.

Anyway, as something for kids, sort of as an introduction to warning them about drug abuse etc. I think it's an ok phrase. It's a bit simplistic for older people who won't care about being a so-called winner.

Your assertion that Bob Marley's music/talent wasn't influenced by pot is a bold one sir :P

It reminds me an indie game back to early 2000's which i never found it again.

I even asked people around here on a topic like "which game was that" but nothing... I'd like to try it again.

drugs = chemicals : cocaine heroine lsd etc.
weed = natural = not drug

So you guys tell that use drugs is well... So much contradiction, I just need a really direct answer, not an answer with lots of stuff on it, doing circles and circles to the main phrase. Just a no, a yes... I know you guys aren't retarded, you know what Im talking about Drugs, bad drugs that hurt you and destroy your body, not the drugs from pharmacy. Hope guys you help me to reach a good panorama of the phrase.

I made this question here, because where I live, the person closest to me give me a really good answers, but this is SG and thousands of people watch this post in minutes, so I want to know another answers from people from other parts of the world.

PD: I dont use drugs and I dont plan to do, in my around no one uses drugs as far as I know, but I got attacked for use this phrase really hard, I dont understand why people hate the people that said this Phrase, what it means, probably I dont see far away than my perspective. I also not incite to discriminate, to isolate or to not help people involved in drugs, contrary, I incite to help them and to fix them to be succesful (If possible, I mean there is a lot of people that one just cant help, they like to live like that, or they are really addicts, people that hurt you for try to help). But why people got so mad for hear this?... Are really winners drug people?... what is the benefit of go in drugs?... I NEED TO KNOW THIS STUFF GUYS, TELL ME PLOX. :D

People will only jump on you for that phrase if they have a guilty conscience. Otherwise, they won't care.

What funny is that I can remember when "Winners don't use drugs" was actually true. These days, it seems half the winners are juiced up. Basically, everything you put into your body has an impact, even food and drink. Your body was designed to ingest food and drink, however, not the other stuff.

Mr. Punchy. :)

Some people need drugs to win. Others are natural winners. I would say that it's most accurate to say that natural winners or hard workers do not need drugs, and people at a disadvantage mentally and physically do. If you wanted to get technical about it.

I don't believe in drugs and only take them on last resource, so i rarely do coffee and alcohol or medicines

PS. dont get me wrong, i understand what they do, i just like my brainy/witty self better and wont lightly jeopardize it

I don't like drugs, they get in the way of my drinking.

The problem is that it really simplifies what drugs do and also gives drugs a negative connotation. It implies all drugs are bad, even medicine used to save lives and other natural drugs that do have proven benefits to our health and longevity. A prime example is drugs such as tobacco, alcohol and steroids. Steroids are given a bad rap by their use to shortcut in sports, but they also are used in transplant patients to prevent rejection and do save lives. Alcohol and tobacco also have numerous proven benefits (with smoking it's actually the additives that cause cancer, not the tobacco itself before anyone gets on that soapbox) as well.

In the end if a drug is negatively affecting you, it's bad. If a drug is allowing a shortcut to hard work and determination, then it's unfair to those who do put in the work. And even when it comes to drugs that have proven benefits and can save lives, if the side effects are worse than the disease they are meant to treat, then we really should use another treatment. If such a thing doesn't exist yet, then we need more research to find one.

In the end drugs are much like guns and knives. We all know that a gun or knife can be used to kill, but they also have many good uses. Drugs are a tool much like this and in the hands of some people can be used to treat disease and retain good health. In the hands of others they can be used to do harm. It isn't so much that winners don't use drugs, it is that winners use drugs responsibly and fairly and only when necessary. Even medicine can be bad, plenty of drug users actually are addicted to legal drugs obtained only via prescription and started on using them for a valid reason. This also doesn't even begin to get into the attitude that with medicine there needs to be a pill for everything even if it doesn't need a pill, like the practice of prescribing antibiotics for viral infections.