Make it easy to do drugs and be able to get food without a job and more people will do drugs. Human nature.
How is life in a fact-free world treating you, Steve? Until you back your wild and wooly assertions up with empirical evidence I assume that is where you live.
I was once stupid like yiu back in the 70s. Drug\s and pot? It was just a pardona decison so fuck off, right?
In the 60s as a teen I was living in public housng.
Late one noght I went around with a black kid I knew who had abit scoring heroin.
We went into his house and locked the door of the bathroom. I attached him cook and fix, needle and spoon. Black tracks and brown skin.Hi eyes rolled and his legs wobbled as it hit.
After high school I heard he was murdered in prison.
A frind in my building is a retired nurse who at one time was drug addicted and homeless. He still works wuth addicts. He has a supply of Norcon and has given to pele on the siidewak in front of building.
So please, if at all possible from ignorant sloganeering and liberal cliches, like treating drugs as a medical disease.
Pot is everywhere on the streets. Kids hanging around getting high. I see it all the time. I watched a guy in a nearby park calmly take out his works and fix oblivious without care of being seen. Why would he, police will do nothing by policy. Peop le can not be forced into housing and treatment by policy, many refuse.
Today we have teen addicts and alcoholics, the result of getting rid of social pressure. Drugs were hyped in movies and musc starting in the 60s. In Clapton's live version of Cocaine the crowd sings along 'Cocaine!'. The Dead popularized LSD, they had their own chemist Owsley. Jefferson Airplane. Drugs became cool.
Here in Seattle the bus driver union is complaing about people smoking crushed drugs on busses. The polce won't come and remove them. It affects drivers and passengers.
The so called drug crisis is cultural not medical.
So please, what are those facts you are talking about? My experience goes back to the 60s. Sandoz, Owsely, Purple Haze?
You are just another arm chair commenter without a clue as to reality. No idea of social consequences to policies..