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Originally Posted by Brendone
For me, “hard drugs” have always been the other side of a line where your possible outcomes are a splitting headache the morning after over indulging booze vs overdose and death, so I guess that does make me a drug Prohibitionist. I also stayed away from pot because I considered it a grey area between alcohol and hard drugs. Sort of that next step to rabbit hole I didn’t want to risk going down. I had lots of friends that would indulge in pot and never had an issue, and I don’t consider it a path to the dark side like I used to, but still can’t stand the smell, so not for me.
I have lots of sympathy for those who become addicts due to situations they don’t know how to cope with, and I believe in treatment, not safe supply. I’m all for more funding for treatment. The “I like to party hard” addict. Nope, you chose your path.
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Forget overdosing and death. Worry about the whirlwind these things have on your mind and body. Like, cocaine isn’t bad because it can kill you per say, it’s bad because when life no longer brings you pleasure and the only way you feel good is by feeding your addiction, you tend to devolve a bit. NO addiction is good, by nature of the meaning. But like, most people won’t ruin their children’s lives, steal peoples ####, lose their house and their job or stab their friends over coffee or porn.
Drugs are dangerous because they’re so ####ing good. And we don’t really have much in the way, physiologically speaking, to counter with. And, it’s not as if no longer being an addict makes the addiction go away; simply seeing your old user friends, or smelling a cigarette or whatever causes similar patterns in your body to as if actually partook. So like, normalizing hard drugs really actually does make it more difficult for people in recovery to stay that way.
Drugs aren’t bad because they’re unhealthy for the user in that moment. They’re bad because they turn people into bad members of society with very little control over themselves at that point.