It's honestly one of the biggest ills facing society. The roadmap to addiction is severe, and there's really nothing "cool" about it.

While it doesn't necessarily precipitate dysfunction, it definitely greases the wheels, and leads to all manner of things from general assholery to physical abuse to date rape.

Especially in America, where we've stupidly raised the drinking age to 21, which has achieved little beyond promoting binge drinking among teens.

Fuck the doom posting. I'd rather hear about you going on some grand adventure hike than clinking ice cubes to the desperation of your soul.

I'm not for prohibition, but I think people need to check themselves before playing their hand in blackout culture.

      • GrouchoMarxist [comrade/them,use name]
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        4 years ago

        I mean, stuff like "exploration of workers around the world" or "murder" or "bigotry" or "there aren't enough AOC feet pics" ranks much, much higher for me than "drugs" personally, but if people wanna put drugs up in their top 5, sure.

        Frankly the biggest problems with drugs/alcohol is why people turn to them in the first place, not access or age restrictions or how much it's advertised. Escapism is the foundation for drug use, and there's about 10 million things fueling that desire to escape. If we wanna leave all those reasons in place, then sure drugs are a big problem, otherwise focus on the conditions that lead to drug use and you'll see significant improvements in consumption