Mine is Mr. Brownstone, because I've done opiates and I can relate. It's also a screamingly awesome fucking song, from a musical viewpoint.
Thats a good song, I enjoy it but it. I've never done opiates honestly those scare me, unless you count morphine and that was not a pleasant experience.
I fucking love opiates.
I don't do them anymore, because I like 'em a bit too much. I miss them, to be quite frank. If my quality of life were to decrease, I'd start doing them again - and in massive amounts. I don't care about the legality.
But, I have a pretty fucking awesome life. So, I really don't need opiates to make it better. Besides, when I'm not doing opiates, I feel much more alive.
Obviously, I'm not asking you to agree.
However, here's some logic for you.
Would you say we have a drug problem? The answer is yes. I can get drugs, no problem.
So, legalization isn't actually going to make people say, "Hey, I think I'll go try heroin today." In areas where legalization has been tried, the rates of addiction go does. In areas where the government just gives the shit to you, the rates go down even more.
End the god damned war on drugs and ensure clean manufacture with consistent dosages, clean needles, and practicing safe injection practices. Treat addiction like a disease and not a social problem or criminal act. This works, time and time again.
It's pretty fucking basic. Slam the book on anyone providing these drugs to anyone who hasn't reached the age of majority. Take the crime, and thus the profit that is the black market, right out of it.
Done. Solved as well as it's realistically going to be solved. Humans do drugs and we have evidence of this all the way back to prehistory. You're not going to stop that behavior. Frankly, drugs are pretty fucking awesome. That's why we do them. We wouldn't do them if they weren't awesome.
Well I would agree with your statement that when you legalize drugs rates of addiction drop, thats pretty accepted science at this point, however a counter argument to having safe injection sites could be the current state of San Fransisco, So they are doing something wrong in that city regarding their drug problem.
I know that the war on drugs is object-ably a failure. There is no reason to continue it I'm definitely pro legalization. I don't think for the most part you can regulate human behavior away.
I've personally got no issue with anyone taking drugs, I really don't any kind. Morphine just didn't agree with me at all I puked a lot. There are even a few I want to try but haven't ever had the opportunity.
I think removing the black market would remove a lot of human suffering from the world so objectively its the best choice available. We can't completely remove the problem of drugs ever, so why not remove as much of the problem as possible?
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