The negative externalities of our pharmaceutical industry and its rampant over prescription of amphetamine and opioids aren’t worth it in my opinion. I would gl

The negative externalities of our pharmaceutical industry and its rampant over prescription of amphetamine and opioids aren’t worth it in my opinion. I would gladly get rid of all of it. The homeless users I see walking from Pioneer Square to Harborview Hospital didn’t start off injecting heroin/fentanyl and smoking meth. They almost certainly all started with pills, whether prescribed or illegally obtained. Your argument that it helps you just doesn’t move the needle for me. I see dead 20 year olds nearly every day from fentanyl or hypertensive brain hemorrhages from meth users. That’s just in Seattle - I’m sure it’s similar in every major US city. There’s no So while you describe this benefit to you, I think of it analogously as gun ownership. There are people who use guns appropriately for self defense, hunting, etc - but thousands of people die from them every year due to inappropriate and illegal use. And yet there’s no constitutional protection for amphetamine and opioids - but here the US is today, in a drug crisis of its own making. That’s my perspective. I see the end of one extreme every single day. This is a population level problem and you want me to contextualize it to a single individual. I guess my response to that is that I have contextualized it and reject it. I might be some sanctimonious wind bag to you (who you can’t stand) but you don’t have to see the dead all the time. And this trail of mayhem begins at our irresponsible pharmaceutical industry. The high functioning cheerleading users have 0 perspective and want me to lose sight of the forest. No thank you, I’ll stick to the one size fits all treatments. No opioids or amphetamines.