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For things that are physically addictive, addiction is actually a disease.
They change the way your brain functions and can elevate themselves to the same level as thirst in some cases.
You aren't wrong that other factors can cause a person to use addictive substances and this won't help with that.
But many people do addictive substances purely because they get addicted.
In many cases addiction makes your life way worse and the things you do to feed it are horrendous. So this argument doesn't apply to many.
Cocaine isn't physically addictive.
You're absolutely right. I'm surprised by that.
It's a common misconception, like much information around most illegal drugs.
These things aren't illegal for any moral reason, it's purely about money and politics.
If you're further interested, there's plenty of info about the administration of heroin by Boots the Chemist in London before it was made illegal. Fascinating stuff.
Heroin was sold in the back of the Sears catalog in the US in the early 1900s! It was marketed to housewives to "take the edge off of a stressful day".
You're absolutely right that it's all about money and politics. It has always amazed me how (in the US) weed is placed in the same schedule (legal tier of how restricted it is) as heroin and cocaine, saying that they're extremely addictive and have no medical usage... Which is absolute bullshit. We all know cocaine is a stimulant and numbing agent, heroin was invented by Bayer Pharmaceutical and is a strong pain killer, and we're discovering that weed has many benefits. Also the US government has a patent for the medicinal usage of cannabis.... while simultaneously stating that it has no medicinal usage 😶
The UK is said to be the biggest exporter of medical cannabis in the world. The person who owns the largest manufacturer is said to be the husband of the former drug minister Victoria Atkins.
This is all hearsay and tittle tattle of course -
Sky News report.
Victoria Atkins.
Paul Kenward, managing director of British Sugar.
I wouldn't think of the UK as a good place for growing weed since it's generally relatively cold and rainy there most of the time isn't it? That obviously doesn't matter for hydroponics.
Also the US has zero reason to export its weed, we all consume it within the state it's grown in.
Yet alcohol is and it's legal in practically every country! You can go out and buy 5 liters of vodka and go home and get shit faced, but you can't buy weed legally in a lot of places or cocaine legally pretty much anywhere (except for Portugal).