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I have been closer to drugs/dealers and crime since I was about 12 than a PhD to books. Your heart and faith is beautiful, and it’s very very true in some inst

I have been closer to drugs/dealers and crime since I was about 12 than a PhD to books. Your heart and faith is beautiful, and it’s very very true in some instances. Really wonderful bright people get swept up. But there are some people out there like cities worth who are just wired for a different ‘normal’ (re crime). I’ve ran with them and even years in their capacity for exploring new levels of instilling fear in innocent people and demonstrating carelessness for property, hard work, and vulnerability. . I can’t type specifics.. just out of a learned built in anxiety over even getting this into it. People get way f*g addicted. By 8th grade thanks to people smoking oxy, the gentle cool kid from the nicer end of town was stealing cars and punching his mom in the face for cig money. If that is t addiction night and day who is this person behavior 180 degree change strictly due to the pursuit of or gap of time between the possibility of having another hit of whatever. Rant but struck chord

Reelin 6y ago
> I have been closer to drugs/dealers and crime since I was about 12 than a PhD to books. Then in my opinion you have been surrounded (and your views significantly influenced) by a vicious cycle which is fueled by prohibition. The entire situation is directly analogous to the US prohibition of alcohol in the early 20th century. It should be incredibly obvious in hindsight how that directly caused harm and failed to solve any problems. > there like cities worth who are just wired for a different ‘normal’ (re crime) ... ok, and? That's what we have law enforcement for. How is that related to chemical substances and addiction? (I don't agree with you by the way but I also don't see how such a claim is relevant to the topic at hand.) > thanks to people smoking oxy, the gentle cool kid from the nicer end of town was stealing cars and punching his mom in the face for cig money I'm arguing that such situations aren't at all simple - there's a lot more going on than just "addiction to a chemical". Importantly, I'm arguing that there's no reason to expect decriminalizing various chemicals to result in more of that. (In fact I'm arguing the exact opposite - that decriminalizing various chemicals would result in much less of that the world over.)
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Reelin 6y ago

> I have been closer to drugs/dealers and crime since I was about 12 than a PhD to books. Then in my opinion you have been surrounded (and your views significantly influenced) by a vicious cycle which is fueled by prohibition. The entire situation is directly analogous to the US prohibition of alcohol in the early 20th century. It should be incredibly obvious in hindsight how that directly caused harm and failed to solve any problems. > there like cities worth who are just wired for a different ‘normal’ (re crime) ... ok, and? That's what we have law enforcement for. How is that related to chemical substances and addiction? (I don't agree with you by the way but I also don't see how such a claim is relevant to the topic at hand.) > thanks to people smoking oxy, the gentle cool kid from the nicer end of town was stealing cars and punching his mom in the face for cig money I'm arguing that such situations aren't at all simple - there's a lot more going on than just "addiction to a chemical". Importantly, I'm arguing that there's no reason to expect decriminalizing various chemicals to result in more of that. (In fact I'm arguing the exact opposite - that decriminalizing various chemicals would result in much less of that the world over.)

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