So, in other words, fight only symptoms. Never try to address the source of the disease.
I truly cannot understand the paper thinness of drug warrior arguments.
Flippancy is not refutation.
the shady world of prescription drugs you describe already exist
It certainly does.
Writing more prescriptions is the solution, then?
Symptoms? They are the real deal. Those ate crimes. The criminal justice system has mo more business stilling on drug use as a cause of crime than they have seeking to root out original sin.
“Flippancy is not refutation”
Of course not, and I wasn’t being flip. I truly cannot understand why drug warrior’s arguments are so poor, and that’s all I meant to express on that sentence. If you want to know how, look to another part of the post, other posts, or I suppose I could make a list.
“Writing more prescriptions is the solution, then”
That is the side effect of a solution to a much, much bigger problem. And it isn’t much of a problem, anyway, if the prescription drug world as it exists now is fine by you. What I want to get across, and which doesn’t seem to penetrate most ideological walls, is how ridiculous is the War on Drugs when the abuse of legal drugs might be a bigger problem.
Actually, definitely is a bigger problem when you factor in booze. But drug warriors have compartmentalized that, for whatever reason.