Mood altering chemicals, including alcohol, are not all regulated for use by prescription.
Illegal drugs are used by the addicted for a cheap or expensive thrill in an otherwise pathetic life. They are unregulated and used by people out of control.
In the unlikely event you might be encouraged to learn some facts about addiction and the status of those so afflicted, I would be pleased to direct you to some educational information on the subject.
There is a difference.
No. Mood altering chemicals are generally addictive whether legal or not. The only difference is the classification.
Do you drink alcohol? Smoke cigarettes? Chew gum? If so, are you out of control?
The fact remains that an innocent lady is dead because some testosterone pumped rambo incompetents knocked a 57 year old lady around after blasting their way into her apartment....
Let me put it to you that even if her son was in the apartment and even if he was the one they were after, they don't need to knock down doors to get these guys off the street.
If they are on the street...a danger to society...find out which street...and let some 8 time DWI regular church goer have a brand shiny new police cruiser and let him loose on that street.
The same "rambo incompetents" in ESU also sustained the heaviest losses of any NYPD unit during 9-11. Were there tragic mistakes made? Yes. Incompetent? I think not.