You beat me to it, and I couldn’t agree more. I’m not sure where I personally stand on legalization of hard drugs, but this idea that its like the economics tha

You beat me to it, and I couldn’t agree more. I’m not sure where I personally stand on legalization of hard drugs, but this idea that its like the economics that’s the issue is absurd. Playing with drugs is risking Groundhog Day and giving addicts a path out is likely what’ll fix things for people /who want help/. Drugs are dangerous and no policy change will ever be a silver bullet; as long as there are drugs there will be addicts who are enslaved to them. We’ve created a society where, like shitty parents of disobedient children, we scold and shame addicts into temporary compliance. But the real way out is to give them the opportunity to create something not that they value more than drugs (let’s be honest, you’ll never do that), but a path that has a better ratio of anxiety to fulfillment than they currently have with drugs, or even fucking alcohol. It’s not easy, and not always possible, and you can’t save everybody, or even most, but it’s pretty widely known that it’s the best we can do.