Neser Boha
upgrade your gray matter
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And isn't he able to do so?
No, he's not. He's unable to cope with his stress, and has instead engaged in a harmful addiction as a result. It's a destructive behavior. No different than a person who cuts themselves, or a captive bird that plucks its own feathers out.
You hit the nail on the head - perhaps unintentionally - people start abusing and get addicted to drugs most often because of other issues, such as extreme stress, depression, anxiety issues, trauma, etc. That's what we should primarily focus on - not on denigrating them, making them into criminals (which only worsens their condition and creates an endless circle of evil) and creating black market that only criminals profit off.
Were drugs regulated and taxed, there'd more than enough revenue to take care of these issues, instead we're just throwing money away into a bottomless pit. Literally. We've been doing this since the 70's and the problem only got worse.
Time to find other solution and I think that solution is legalising and regulating/taxing.
Moreover, just because something is legal doesn't mean it's right/moral or that those that made it legal are supporting it. That's another thing that people get stuck on and I understand that. I'm not for drug abuse. I'm not even for using heavy drugs. I'm actually really against it, but the fact is that prohibition doesn't work. It's actually only made things worse. So what do we do with a problem that is only getting worse? We try to find a different solution and that's what all this is about.