There is no excuse to use drugs. For me it is acceptable to use drugs only in those cases when a person is terminally ill and in pain, but it should do the doctor. In all other cases the drugs are poison. I am very concerned about the talk about the legalization of all drugs.
Do you drink, smoke, or eat fast food in America? Or use a doctor prescribed mood regulator?
Welcome to the club, buddy.
First off, the opium problem didn't start with Mexico, folks. You can thank your local doctor for that. There has been an aggressive push to over prescribe opiates in certain parts of the country. Check the rates at which they dole this shit out; there was a county somewhere that had prescribed enough painkillers that every citizen should have gotten a few hundred.
Problem is, doctors aren't dealers, for the long run, at least. After the patient would run out of opiates, they would turn to the illegal market to keep up the habit. THIS made the cartels make a choice; sell pot, which folks can grow themselves (quality has gone up, Mex import pot is declass now) or sell an odorless, easier to transport substance that's more expensive?
Also, while I approve that we are helping addicts instead of incarcerating them with this, where was all this rehabilitation shit during the crack epidemic? Black folks ate a long legal dick during the crack epidemic. We locked their asses up, and filled the prisons with a generation of addicts. No talk of solving the problem, we were 'tough on crime' back then.
Kinda like now, under Sessions. But you will never see the massive uptick of inmates behind this, like in the 80s. Now that the demographic of addition has shifted (white, rural rather than black, urban), so have the treatment priorities.