I'm done with drugs and alcohol

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1) Drugs are illegal in our country at this time--render unto Caesar that which is Caesar's. It won't kill you not to fuel the social problems created by the demand for drugs--if you buy drugs, You are complicit in all that the drug trafficking brings: the crime, the mules (including some children), etc. Don't blame the government for that--prohibition was repealed, and people can create change in drug laws so that we can tax the heck out of them like cigarettes to fund social programs that help people.

Oh, but most drugs aren't illegal. They are actually heavily supported and encouraged by the government as well as society! They are called "prescription drugs" and millions upon millions of people use these on a daily basis in order to numb themselves out. WAY more people use these kinds of drugs, than illegal drugs.

I see your point about using the system to decriminalize certain drugs, and to tax them, etc. Problem is that most people subscribe to the circular reasoning which says if marijuana is illegal, that makes it "bad", therefore it is "bad" to make marijuana legal. Meanwhile, let me pop a Xanax and a Vicodin or two, because they are legal, and because they are legal they are good, and besides, my insurance company will pay for it. Oh, you don't have insurance, and can't afford to pay for these prescription drugs out-of-pocket? Well gee that's too bad, but it still doesn't justify you smoking a joint to relieve your intractable pain, because marijuana is illegal and that makes it bad. Thus, you should spend years or decades in prison for possession of it, because that is what the law says, and since the law says it, that makes it right... and so on...

But anyway, I am curious. It would seem to me, by your logic, that anybody who takes prescription drugs is complicit in all those sketchy shenanigans that the business of Big Pharma brings with it. Yes?

Also- one need not purchase their marijuana from a supply chain which includes narcoterrorists and that sort of ilk.

Otherwise- I really liked your post! Very insightful! And for what it's worth, I didn't perceive it at all to be a "rant".