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I see that there is a lot of vitriol in this thread about whether or not a drug or all drugs should be illegal or not legal, and there usually is on this subject.

I would just like to say, without singling anyone out in particular, so I write this post to myself, that the legality of drugs simply does not matter to an addict.

A person with the demon of addiction is going to encounter and do battle with that demon at some point in their lives regardless of whether or not the particular object of their demon is legal or not.

Law is not going to save them from this. Loved ones cannot save them from this. Even God cannot save them from this, but He most certainly can help an addict who does wish to help themselves. But the key is that the addict must want to help themselves. Without that desire to overcome, the addiction will always win.

To try and illustrate what I am talking about, I like to use the drug Krokdoil as an example. This is a cheap heroin knock off made form coedine pills and gasoline and red phosphor and other horrible crap.

It is then injected into the veins where it then in short order proceeds to rot the flesh of the user form the inside out, until their limbs and other areas literally rot off or they otherwise die from usage.

I understand that this drug is 4 times more potent than heroin, and thus the degree of physical addiction caused by it is staggering. Once you start, chances are, you are going to die, soon.

if the promise of rotting flesh and limbs and death is not enough to deter people from using this drug, then obviously a law doesn’t matter at all. it does not even figure into the equation for the addict.

What causes them to start in the first place is some hole in their life and/ or soul that they attempt to self medicate by numbing their minds with drugs. Shortly thereafter, physical addiction forms, and they are stuck in a rut that very few escape.

Some people will argue that if the drugs are illegal, then that lessens the chance to get it. if users are in jail, that gives them a chance to sober up.

Problem is that there is always going to be some unscrupulous person who will provide the fix for payment, even in jail, and in the end, if the addict never addresses the root cause of the desire to use drugs in the first place, i.e. I simply cannot tolerate being sober all day long, every day for whatever reason, they will no doubt cross paths with the easy way out somewhere along the line, and it will start again.

Addiction is a problem that is really outside of the scope of law. It is a spiritual problem, and in the cases of physical addiction, it can also be a medical problem, because some withdrawal symptoms are so severe that they kill, and it takes a great deal of fortitude to endure such symptoms.

All that being said, I don’t know what the answer is on legality. Certainly seems like crack and heroin and meth and all that should not be legal, but at the same time, much as we want to, we cannot protect people from themselves.

Only a person can protect himself from himself, with the help of God.