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tweet by Johann Hari: The core of addiction is not wanting to be present in life, because pour life is too painful a place to be. This is why imposing more pain or punishment on a person with an addiction problem actually makes their addiction worse.
But it's really really hard, and it'd be even harder if fewer drugs required knowing drug dealers.
I mean, not really. I've never bought drugs like that, but I could have a bag of coke in about 5 minutes because only an idiot wouldn't know a dealer when they drive past one.
It'd be risky, but otherwise easier than walking into the local dispensary or liquor store. And I don't have to show ID if I'm buying shit on the street (which is why minors are more likely to take illegal drugs than legal ones)
By the time I was 15 I had done cocaine, methamphetamine, alcohol, codeine, ketamine, mdma, amphetamine, methylphenidate, weed, mushrooms, acid, dmt and probably more that I just can't remember. The mushrooms didn't fund a drug gang, they funded my education, but everything else except those and alcohol funded a drug gang.
Which of those are you still on, if you think that experience was typical?
Psychedelics, weed and if I'm at a concert maybe md or k. I'm not on any of the really hard stuff like alcohol tho.