We still don’t get what to do about drugs

One word can sometimes change the way one views things. To wit: if one adds the word “other” to alcohol and drugs (alcohol and other drugs) one’s perspective is likely to change. The failure to use it in normal parlance speaks to an arbitrary distinction that has for too long been accepted.

It is difficult to argue that alcohol is not a drug and the same applies to nicotine. Further, like almost all recreational drugs, they offer an immediate “high” followed by a “low” as the pleasure chemicals oscillate back to stasis. “Weed,” cocaine, heroin (OXY) etc. do exactly the same thing. The fundamental distinction is that they have been made illegal and the results of use may be more dramatic. Users also may be marginally more likely to become addicted. Interestingly, one is more likely to die coming off alcohol than other drugs but the road back is more difficult.

One source of these sanctimonious laws was blatant racism. “Weed” was the drug of choice in the Black culture years ago. It was believed by the public to drive young Black males into a frenzy which put White girls at risk. Opiates were the drugs of choice...

Well let’s start with:
I discount everything written about drugs by an author, that incudes the (OXY) in a discussion about Class 1 Narcotics.
He is either deceitful, or woefully misinformed.
In the very next sentence he contends that the government has made all these drugs illegal. Horse apples!
The OXY he refers to is Oxycodone, or the main ingredient in OxyContin, Percoset, and many other “Prescription” medications.
It is used by me, and many other chronic pain, and cancer patients to relieve what is otherwise debilitating pain.
Without this medication, I am unable to lift myself out of bed, bathe myself, or even make it to the bathroom without assistance.
This medication has given me a quality of life that most take for granted, and for him to include it in this manner is a slap in the face to all of us who this medication has helped.
How in the hell is it our fault that a bunch of numbskulls who have obtained the med ILLEGALLY (sound like the gun argument?) have misused it?

After that first statement, it’s hard to take anything else he says seriously.

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