The only reason people do it in the first place it to escape the suffering of their lives. So let them have that little bit of pleasure in a world of hell.
shareSo you're living in hell - why would you then go making that a self-perpetuating hell by taking drugs and compounding the situation, which someone else pointed out also generally has the effect of making everyone around you's life hell too??!!
shareI doubt anyone can know the reasons all people do anything, though as a person who did use hard drugs and alcohol to try to... make it all go away, I can tell you that using anything, drug or not, instead of dealing with your problems and feelings, will absolutely make it worse.
Nothing changes (except for piling up & getting worse) by trying to cover up a problem, and that's not me saying anything about drugs in particular; just anything people try to use as an excuse not to deal with things.
It's also a lot easier to think more clearly about how to fix a situation when you are sober.
People can do drugs if they like. I don't like to do them anymore, because I know how and why I used to do them. I also know that I don't like feeling out of control.
The only thing I know for sure is that ignoring a problem only lets it stay the same or get worse, and if a person is using drugs to do that, they are probably better off getting help to get off of them.
But then, even in this movie we also saw it, it does lead to characters doing bad things, right?
shareRead some books on this, saw some videos. A lot of people seem to get off drugs easily - when they are ready. Interfering with whatever they are going though only seems to delay that process.
shareGood point.
sharewhat about the otherside,
you are doing crime to attain them, you are causing the suffering of others and you are causing suffering to yourself.
That's a good point to, but the first point, along with an understanding of why these laws came about is more central and key to the problem.
Here is an interesting interview with Professor Carl Hart who talks about the drug war, and drugs from how young days as a drug dealer and his older days as an academic interviewed by the Progressive radio talk show host Peter B. Collins. ( who incidentally has a ton of archived interviews of all kind of people and discussions of all kinds of news going back decades )
2021-04-07 From the Archive: Columbia Prof. Carl Hart Fights to End the War on Some Drugs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0Oyz_qMUcc&t=23s
There is also the very interesting book, the best seller on drugs that cutes both Switzerland's and Portugal legalization or decriminalization of drug use by Johann Hari.
Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs
https://smile.amazon.com/Chasing-Scream-Johann-Hari-audiobook/dp/B00S5ASH9I/ref=sr_1_3?dchild=1&keywords=johann+hari&qid=1619317654&sr=8-3
Tell that to the TENS OF MILLIONS of people who are dead of have completely ruined lives because of drugs.
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