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I can be persuaded that the war on drugs should end, perhaps by legalizing them, but I absolutely refuse to subsidize an addict for their entire (probably short) life. There are people with real (physical) problems like starvation and malaria that my attention is better spent on. That's not to say that feelings of hopelessness or meaninglessness aren't a serious problem, it's just that drug problems are created by people a: trying them in the first place and b: perpetuated by not taking ownership of the problem. A person that is not interested in saving themselves cannot be saved.
The problem isn't that there is a supply of drugs, it's that there is a demand to abuse them. The color of the skin from which the supply comes from is irrelevant.
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