So I was thinking about how I feel towards drugs and drug-users. Addiction is a disease. Anyone who hasn't been addicted to anything seriously have no right to judge addicts based on their using of drugs. I want to offer people my help and to cut off the drug trade to all of these sick people. I don't see addicts as "bad people" and I certainly don't judge them. When I say drug-users, I don't mean that you smoke the occasional joint, drink the occasional bit of alcohol, or take pills for real physical pain. With that being said I can honestly say that those 3 things can lead to a life of addiction though. Not everyone can force themselves to quit doing something. More than half of our United States population is addicted to sodas and the caffeine in sodas. Think about the time you tried to quit sodas and you got that killer headache that didn't even go away when you slept. Drug withdrawals are 100 times worse than that headache. To be an addict is to be sick but so is to quit your drug.
Nobody does a drug once with the intention of becoming addicted to it. The United States really needs to give up this "war on drugs" bullshit and stop treating drug-use as a crime and start treating it as a medical condition. People should not go to prison because they have an addiction, they should go to government funded treatment centers. Now, a drug dealer or transporter should be locked behind bars, because all he is doing is adding fuel to the fire. If we legalized drugs and regulated them, we would have control of the drug world instead of homeless drug users dying in the streets every day. Using drugs shouldn't be scary because of going to jail and getting in trouble, it should be feared as a possessive device that can spiral your life and the lives of people around you straight down.
Very good points, take this approach with your presentation.
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