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Anon is anti drugs
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this post was submitted on 08 Jul 2024
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This is the kind of thing said by someone who has never spent any amount of mental energy trying to understand drugs and drug use in any way. This is not a thought someone develops organically through experimentation and reasoning. This is a line parroted by idiots and it’s the kind of thinking that criminalizes and stigmatizes drug use and gets millions of people killed.
Drug use is bad for health and absolutely does have the potential to spiral into a destructive addiction. Alcohol is a drug, by the way.
With that said, criminalizing drug use barely helps anyone - but the distribution must remain illegal.
Making distribution illegal just leads to people getting a bad supply that leads to overdoses and poisoning.
You are acting like a helicopter parent. Stop it. People have the right to make decisions about their own bodies and health.
Also you really want to ban all recreational drugs? Congrats you just removed one of people's only outlets and caused more suicide, self-harm, and mental health issues.
Furthermore not even all drugs are addictive. Classical psychedelics actually are used to cure addictions, it's highly unlikely you become addicted to one. It's also one of the least dangerous forms of addiction you can have, and is better than whatever other addiction you would develop instead of if it weren't there.
Don't you see the issue on the intersection of these two points? People usually don't make a free choice to go for drugs, they do it to make their life feel more bearable.
Solution? Don't rally for drugs, rally for improving life conditions so that people wouldn't try to escape reality.
Why not both?
If we legalize recreational drugs (start w/ weed and shrooms, expand later), here's what we get:
Banning it just pushes the sale and distribution underground. I honestly don't see the benefits there, especially for the less harmful drugs.
We should also be rallying to improve living conditions. Banning drugs doesn't help anyone but the cartels.
Not really plenty of people take up drugs for fun rather than as a coping mechanism. A lot is just because of curiosity too. The motives are diverse.
That doesn't remove the other, more sensible reasons people do drugs. See above statement.
It's not always possible to improve the quality of life. We should definitely try though, don't get me wrong. There will always be heartache, sorrow, mental health issues and disabilities though. That's just the human condition. Sometimes drugs are actually the less self destructive coping mechanism, especially with psychedelics. In some cases something that's recreational for one person, is a medicine for a second person, and an addiction for a third. See amphetamine/adderall for an example.
Half this country wants the other half to hurt because fox news said they should. Your last sentence is literally impossible.
More like a third, but a third of people are dumbasses and don’t vote.