I have had friends who have died of overdose, so I do know what it is like.
Their poor choices are no excuse whatsoever to put the tens of millions of fellow citizens who responsibly use these drugs - people you never see as drug users because they don’t show symptoms of addiction - in jail. Which helps no one anyway.
88000 deaths due to alcohol a year. Less than 200 due to cocaine. If these numbers mean nothing to you then you are not rationally assessing the situation.
“I have had friends who have died of overdose, so I do know what it is like.”
My BS meter just went off.
How can you advocate for drug use after seeing your friends die from it?
How do you responsibly use very addictive illegal drugs?
Aside from already being addicted to it, how do you get a prescription for using heroin?
How do you get a prescription for crystal meth?
How do square over 1 million deaths a year worldwide from crystal meth?
How do you call an overdose a poor choice when the overdose was caused by a highly addictive drug which requires you to increasingly use more to get the same result?