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Why have you never tried heroin? I am struck by how often the response to that question is not "because it is illegal".
by Archio 10y ago
Why have you never tried heroin? I am struck by how often the response to that question is not "because it is illegal".
- ponyous 10y agoIs this your actual experience? I have talked with few friends about this and all of them pretty much said: "I don't want to destroy my life"
- Archio 10y agoThat's precisely my point. Most people avoid heroin because they don't want to destroy their lives, not because it's illegal.
- brokenmachine 10y agoI have never tried heroin because at the time when I learned about it, I looked at some information and came to the conclusion that it would not be a good decision to make given the physical addictiveness of the drug. To be honest, I attributed almost zero weight to the fact that it was illegal. Remember, opiates are legal now, with a prescription. I wonder, hypothetically if there was a drug where the effects were as pleasurable as I assume heroin must be, but with no physical addiction or nasty side effects, would people still be against it? What if, in the future, your cellphone could emit a frequency that generates pleasure in your brain, but as soon as you turn it off, you are back to normal. Would that be made illegal? Could it be simply a moral objection to unearned pleasure that people are really against?
- brokenmachine 10y agoOh, I forgot to say that also it seemed much more dangerous to directly inject a drug of unknown providence into your vein than to smoke or swallow it. There's also a risk of infection that isn't there with drugs taken by a different method.