drugs, lawyou'd have to be an absolute fucking fruitloop to believe outlawing drug use will stop it
people are speeding regardless of traffic regulations, people are pirating stuff in spite of copyright laws, people gamble without concerns about strong bans and people litter despite it being not only illegal, but also not nice to others
but somehow, for some magical reason, if we ban drugs, people won't do them just one more drug blanket ban, i promise, we never tried that before, we're one blanket ban and one scare campaign away from solving the problem for good
medical, rantalso like, if stigmatising people who are prescribed cannabis for their health problem is good then what do we tell people with adhd (who need literal speed!!!1!1!1!!oneone) what do we tell people with chronic pain (who often need opioids) what do we tell people with epilepsy (who need strong sedatives) what do we tell researchers working on mdma-assisted psychotherapy? what do we tell people with treatment-resistant depression that need maois or even ketamine? honestly, what do we tell anybody who has a disease that can't be found with simple imaging and blood tests? tho i don't know if using "medical" opioids would be fine even for someone who barely survived a car crash
the perfect drug-free society needs to suffer and the perfect drug-free patients need to die so that we can scream about how we're winning the war on drugs
except, the actual drug users get their shit from a vendor, and not from a doctor and the "necessary caution" is making people with actual health problems have contact with criminals but that's good, because such use can't be measured, and public safety is worth far less than one's own stereotypes
