[varyouga]

Because many people feel hopeless and want to escape reality any way possible. And prohibition/taxes makes safer drugs FAR more expensive.

Why spend $50 on cocaine or $20 on booze when $5 of this stuff makes you forget your problems just the same?

Even if we magically succesfully outlawed every drug, these people would be frying their brains huffing road tar. Or even fermenting their own feces.

They’re sick and need mental help. Prison and restrictions on the freedoms of healthy people is NOT a solution to their illness

[nickcarraway]

Good point. Instead of doing that, let's use socialism to take away everyone's freedom in an effort to help those people that will fail miserably.

But, hey, we can feel better about ourselves because we took the money of the producers in society and punished them in a misguided effort to help those poor, benighted souls.

[Karliner]

I understand that but this drug/poison is killer. I suppose they will buy the hype and suffer the consequences. What a damned tragedy.

[peeps36]

The past 3 or 4 years has been like nothing I've seen before. At least a dozen people I grew up with died from some type of drug use. These were working class people with families. They were all in their 40’s or sometimes even younger. I don't live in a city, I live in a small town in CT. It's sad to see so many good people die so young.