I agree with you 100%. I feel all drugs should be legalized. Alcohol is one of the worst drugs for your body long term and it’s legal, so are cigs.

We saw what happened when cannabis and other “harder” drugs were legalized across the globe; teen AND adult use dropped. By legalizing a drug, you get quality control, eliminate the black market, eliminate violence and bloodshed, and have 247 rehab centers that will take you in at any time. You also remove the seductive taboo that lures young people in.

Because the truth is, most drug addicts are self medicating pain and do want help. It may take them time to get there, but they want normalcy too. I’m not gonna try crack cuz it’s legal (just like I don’t drink alcohol, period) lol, I know what that shit does to your brain I’ve seen the fMRIs. I don’t think anyone is gonna randomly try heroin either. This is so those who do fall into those cracks of self medication don’t die, suffer and have help available.

Some of you have no idea how cruel life can actually be. For most people their first major experience of loss is their parents dying. Most drug addicts have been through the ringer, before drugs were even involved in their lives.

Edit: and imho, its disgusting we treat drug addicts as criminals, or judge them harshly or think they are “weaker than us”. Some of these people have literally been to hell, like my best friend who’s father was a big coke dealer and was killed when he was under 10, then his cousin took over the family business and his cousin also started molesting him, turning him gay. He hid this even from me, as I had chilled with his cousin many times. I was the only one of his friends his cousin liked for some reason, and his cousin was insanely violent.

He couldn’t admit he was gay to us or anyone around him; he lived in a gangster family and a lot of his “friends” were “gangsters”. When he had his first pain killer, his first drug after 20 years on earth, he told me he literally decided he’d rather “be a heroin addict than a faggot” (and it was around this time in his life I and another friend were starting to catch on). Do you still not see? They find the drug that numbs their pain so of course they latch onto it. My friend could not process or accept his reality (despite being so smart, earning scholarships and being the first one in his family to go to college and being one of the kindest people I knew); it wasn’t what he wanted for himself and was too painful to accept. And then they go through hell again, like my friend did, to become sober which took a long time, luck and many tries, but it ultimately happened when he came out to his family as gay and started openly dating guys, when his cousin also coincidently ended up in prison.

I truly believe he was scared to death of his cousin this whole time as well, as he was a violent monster and had done MS-13 level things.. I wish I was kidding. My friend was self-medicating. There was too much pain, he couldn’t accept his reality but he had to in the end. And that required a lot of help, to make him see.

And a lot of strength for him to accept.