70K overdose deaths per year is certainly not victimless:
https://www.cdc.gov/drugoverdose/data/statedeaths.html
Families lose sole providers and parents have to bury their own children.
Families lose sole providers and parents have to bury their own children.
but even without that: everyone should be allow to tweak themselves how they see fit. that's just basic tolerance to me.
putting people in cages because they trade chemicals that people seek to induce happiness is to me the main atrocity here.
Isn't the reason that heroin is way, way worse?
To me being an addict is not a problem. I see coffee/nicotin/alc/TV/porn addicts every day and call them my friends'n'fam. No problem. It's "their choice", and they dont look bad for it in my view.
In some cases addiction comes together with other behavior that do make people look bad to me: not taking responsibility, being a cunt, etc. Those behaviors I do look bad at.
If not I don’t understand how the proposed amendment could make this situation any worse than it is now, while it may help many other situations.