I'm not convinced that pot is a god to smokers. Close though.
And the US is my antithesis and just as valid a proof. The fact that China claims in public that it no longer has any drug abusers (now that it is a communist dictatorship) is not impressive in the slightest.
I'm sure there are many drug abusers in China. But it was really bad after 1600 with opium. They were forced to make it illegal because of the rate of addiction.
One could purchase heroin over the counter in 1900 in the US. It wasn't a big problem. It became so only after prohibition was enacted with heroin, cocaine and the like. The Pope used to drink an elixer containing Cocaine and swore by it. So did many Americans.
Opium was a big problem in China after 1600. Why were drugs made illegal if no one was getting addicted to them?
At any rate, this is a deflection on your part. Self-medication is an inherant right. You don't seem to want to disagree with that. Why not?
Drug addiction isn't self-medication.
You haven't even responded to the question.
Drug addiction isn't self-medication.
I have never said that it is. Do you or do you not agree that self-medication is an inherent right?