Colin Kroll’s rise and untimely death

The HN guidelines explicitly statethat complaining about paywalls is off topic.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

All the things you mention are incerdibly damaging, but not necessarily the same thing. not leaving the office, not exercising, poor diet are all symptoms of things like working 20 hour days. In my mind that's the alternative to drugs, which is an escape from not being able to disengage from your startup.

That sounds like an excuse for it. There are countless examples of accomplished people who typically work too much, and who don't engage in recreational drug use.

The technology already exists: as other people have pointed out you can get test kits for fentanyl pretty cheap. And that applies to almost every drug too, you can buy Marquis reagent which covers most commonly used recreational drugs. But people really are not used to the idea of testing their drugs: when was the last time you bought a shot at a bar and tested it to see if it contains methanol, or checked if aspirin from your pharmacy is actually aspirin?

We don't really need to change an entire society, all we need to do is legalise and regulate recreational drugs. That immediately solved the problem of missold drugs. The societal stigma which prevents people seeking help for addiction might not vanish overnight but it's impossible to do anything about it while drugs like opioids are illegal.

In Japan, you go to prison, years, for having cannabis traces in your piss. Then you get deported for good. And say goodbye to your Japanese family cause you will not get a visa anymore.