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sergnio | 3 years ago

> Instead, they will be offered information on available health and social services

I can't emphasize this enough. If you hate drugs and think they're strictly horrible for society, what's worse is us ignoring the underlying reasons for using drugs to extreme levels.

If anyone hasn't heard of Rat Park, please do yourself and everyone a favor and watch this video / read on it

"How the flawed Rat Park experiment launched the drug war"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-0KfwFCMRM&ab_channel=Freet...

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bsnal|3 years ago

I don’t hate drugs. Drugs are inert things. I hate drug users.

dns_snek|3 years ago

Does your definition of a drug include alcohol, nicotine and caffeine? If you hate anyone who consumes any kind of mind-altering substance, for any reason, in any circumstance, and regardless of the impact on their life, then that list includes most of the human population which doesn't seem productive.