Fairness is a tricky concept. What is fair? Did you have the same exact environment, opportunities, choices, genetics, and everything else exactly the same as t

Fairness is a tricky concept. What is fair? Did you have the same exact environment, opportunities, choices, genetics, and everything else exactly the same as the addicts? Upon inspection, fairness is a terrible metric to measure anything by. It should be replaced by utility. I imagine you have made mistakes in your life, small or big. When you did so, did you forgive yourself? Did you punish yourself? You have probably done both at times as it is natural to explore such things. Which one led to a better long term outcome? Emotional blame of yourself or others rarely leads to good outcomes. Acknowledgement of the problems and help towards a better outcome is what is useful. You can think of other people as aliens and live a nasty life. Or you can, on some level, accept others as part of you. Would you not want to help yourself? As for what society ought to do, it should do what is in its long term best interest. All evidence I have seen is that the drug war has had a negative impact on our country and the world. Allowing the free use of drugs will still have problems, but we can focus on actual problems instead of creating more problems, ones with extreme violence and corruption at its heart. But I do think there needs to be some serious thought about restricting advertisements of drugs, any drugs.