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tweet by Johann Hari: The core of addiction is not wanting to be present in life, because pour life is too painful a place to be. This is why imposing more pain or punishment on a person with an addiction problem actually makes their addiction worse.
You are a bit naive on reality.
Right now, anyone can buy coke, opioids and meth without any checks. Even minors.
And organized criminal gangs take all the profit.
With regulation, rules can be put in place for even the hardest drugs. And it would also be registered to whom it was sold, when, what and how much.
But it's really really hard, and it'd be even harder if fewer drugs required knowing drug dealers.
I mean, not really. I've never bought drugs like that, but I could have a bag of coke in about 5 minutes because only an idiot wouldn't know a dealer when they drive past one.
It'd be risky, but otherwise easier than walking into the local dispensary or liquor store. And I don't have to show ID if I'm buying shit on the street (which is why minors are more likely to take illegal drugs than legal ones)
By the time I was 15 I had done cocaine, methamphetamine, alcohol, codeine, ketamine, mdma, amphetamine, methylphenidate, weed, mushrooms, acid, dmt and probably more that I just can't remember. The mushrooms didn't fund a drug gang, they funded my education, but everything else except those and alcohol funded a drug gang.
Which of those are you still on, if you think that experience was typical?
Psychedelics, weed and if I'm at a concert maybe md or k. I'm not on any of the really hard stuff like alcohol tho.
But I don't know where to get any of those things, so I can't buy them.
By the time I was 15 I had done cocaine, methamphetamine, alcohol, codeine, ketamine, mdma, amphetamine, methylphenidate, weed, mushr9oms, acid, dmt and probably more that I just can't remember. The mushrooms didn't fund a drug gang, they funded my education, but everything else funded a drug gang.