[truth_seeker]

"Fellow dopers? So someone who gets addicted because he's taking pills for pain is equivalent to someone who smokes dope for fun? I don't think so."

Are you trying to make a moral distinction; such that there is moral and immoral addiction, to addictive, mind altering substances?

Follow this example: A few 15 year old boys get some beer, and each drinks a couple. Over the following years, each of them drinks with varying frequencies and patterns.

One drinks little to nothing, for it simply makes him naseous. The slight euphoria isn't worth the physical discomfort, to him.

Most of the others drink occasionally, and grow to adulthood, without alcohol becoming the central item in their lives.

But one boy is drawn to alcohol, from that first time. He drinks as much and as often, as he can. By age 18 it has disrupted his life. By age 21 it has him in trouble with the law.

Science has been searching for the "something" that separates the alcoholic boy, from the rest.

You want it to be some moral distinction?

Drugs are far more addictive, than alcohol.

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Take a peek:

Chapter 893.13 Prohibited acts; penalties.-- of Florida Statutes.

[GeronL]

Are you trying to make a moral distinction;

yes. Murder and self defense are not the same thing