If you're poor on drugs I guess you're more likely to get sick or die. If you're rich on drugs, I guess you're more likely to stay on drugs forever because it's an option. You could do a study to crunch actual numbers, but what would it show? If it shows that the poor have a worse time of it, what could they do about it? Get rich?
Bottom line, drug-wise I'd fight for the following:
1. No criminalization of anything: not use, not peddling, not production, not anything. 2. Free, socially subsidized drug education/detox/quitting programs. & levy enough tax on drug sales to pay for these programs.
Joanna
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>> this world, and we should be providing solutions, not excuses."
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> but people with more money get less fucked up by drugs than people
> with less money..
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> .of course that's true of all things that "are fucking people up", but
> there is a glaring difference between upscale drug abusers (?), who
> can afford to get blitzed, and have their choice of blitz delivered to
> their homes, and all others who cannot...
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> second part's true, too, but we ought to be more concerned with
> providing solutions that help people remain free from getting fucked
> by everything else that works against us, and not just drugs...
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> that's not to say that some people don't get seriously sick by
> overdoing it, but that isn't simply a "drug" problem... the stress on
> drugs as the problem is a part of the sickness...
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> those who feel down, depressed, blue, sad, troubled, and can afford to
> get stoned or drunk until the feeling passes, have less problems than
> those who can't afford to do that...that's all.
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> fs
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