Not everyone can deal with fast food, alcohol, nicotine (my drug of choice above all others), power, sugar, name the poison. Shall those who CAN deal with it be inducted for those who cannot? Shall we be deprived because the few ground their ships upon the shoals that most are able to navigate around?
By suggesting that I may be justifying the use of opiates, the idea is that such use needs justification. This in itself indicates that there is something morally wrong with such use.
this goes on to imply that others can and should rightfully dictate how others must participate in society.
Not a wise approach when it emanates from pot smokers.
We return to this gun thread. Shall we all be shorn of our arms because the few take innocent lives with them?
you keep equating heroin and methamphetamine with weed and hamburgers...tell yourself whatever you need to to maintain the fantasy that keeps you feeling good about yourself, i grow tired of trying to explain that they aren't the same...you will just keep trying to convince me they are while i'm standing here telling you they aren't....seems like we're both wasting each others time.
i think what i think, and not one thing you've said has moved me a fraction of an inch from that opinion...and it seems i'm having about the same success rate trying to change your opinion...
in my world, addicts are sick people who aren't to be trusted, because their addiction turns them into basically animals motivated by a primal urge they cannot ignore.
in your world, addicts are happy people who can interact with society with no repercussions, and everyone lives happily ever after...
whose living in a fairy tale world?