On 18 September 2013 16:33, Andrew McGlashan <andrew.mcglashan@affinityvision.com.au> wrote:
On 18/09/2013 4:18 PM, Russell Coker wrote: <<...>>
Also to reduce drug use we could work on policies to make people's lives not suck. If things are going well for someone then heroin just won't appeal to them.
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...have people saying their life sucks ... it doesn't, they just need to improve their perception of what really matters in the world.
Agreed. "What if the difference between not being addicted, and being addicted... was the difference between seeing your world as a park... and seeing the world as your cage" – http://www.stuartmcmillen.com/comics_en/rat-park/ I'd rather descriptive laws than overly prescriptive laws; those that protect my rights to an informed decision, not those that arbitrarily restrict them.