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In places where drugs have been decriminalised across the board the opposite happened.
I don't smoke or drink alcohol, even though it's legal.
But most people do.
Not most people. But a significant number.
Using no drugs for entertainment is so niche, it has its own groups name called Straight Edge.
But have you tried it once?
Not smoking
I mean, I know how addictive and dangerous heroin and meth are. I'm not avoiding them just bcz they are illegal.
I would counter that, and say, look how many people have done it despite it being illegal. You can't stop people from doing drugs with a law.
What you can do is give them safe access to clean needles and drugs that aren't laced with other stuff. And then we can also have programs to help people who are addicted to these drugs, instead of demonizing them.
Wild idea, but maybe we could treat drug addiction like the disease it is, instead of treating people like they're garbage human beings for doing drugs.
It's legal to drink bleach, but everyone seems to understand that it's that bad and avoid it anyway...
Certainly a lot less now that it's not being advertised everywhere as a cool thing to do. Used to be that you couldn't go out anywhere without seeing people smoking... "Smoking or non-smoking?" was just a standard question in any restaurant. Now, I can't remember the last time I saw someone smoking in public.
If it got you high people would do it
Funnily enough, you'd need to drink some pretty strong bleach for it too cause anything more than an upset stomach. Bleach isn't that harmful.
funnily enough, you'd need to shoot some pretty strong heroin for it too cause anything more than an upset stomach. heroin isn't that harmful.
You have no idea about how addiction works. I never mentioned my opinion would ever "work". What do you even mean by "work"?