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> However, I don't think this is a "fix" any more than legal alcohol is a fix for alcoholism. Is it too much of a stretch to suggest that legal alcohol IS a fi
by patcon 12y ago
> However, I don't think this is a "fix" any more than legal alcohol is a fix for alcoholism.
Is it too much of a stretch to suggest that legal alcohol IS a fix for alcoholism, at least if you're speaking of the sort of alcoholism that might exist is a world where alcoholics are all destitute and social pariahs? I think we live in a world where many functional alcoholics exist, for better or for worse. But I would rather have more functional alcoholism and legality, than live in a society that views alcoholics as criminals and condemns them to destitution.
In the same way, while i dont necessarily want more heroin addicts, i think i want to live in society where functional heroin addicts can lead the semblance of a normal life as we coolectively sort out how to help them recover.
- dragonwriter 12y ago> Is it too much of a stretch to suggest that legal alcohol IS a fix for alcoholism, at least if you're speaking of the sort of alcoholism that might exist is a world where alcoholics are all destitute and social pariahs? Prohibition doesn't make all addicts destitute social pariahs. There are plenty of rich & popular addicts of illegal drugs now, just as there were plenty of rich & popular people who were also alcoholics when alcohol was the subject of Prohibition. It does make more addicts destitute social pariahs, though, and the stigmatization complicates treating addiction.