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In reply to the discussion: Why did street drugs proliferate and get so much into the mainstream in the [View all]XemaSab
(60,212 posts)3. I blame "just say no" and the war on drugs
As kids we were basically told that if we so much as looked at a joint sideways, within three months we'd be passed out in an alley covered in bodily fluids.
The war on drugs draws a false equivalency that people buy into.
People try weed and don't die, then they're like "Hey, I wonder what cocaine is like."
I know dozens if not hundreds of people who have done hard drugs and who are fine, upstanding members of society. I also know people who have become addicts and died of overdoses.
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raccoon
Jul 2012
OP
I dunno, maybe they'd rather eat some molly or snort a few lines of whatever...
Frannyfannypack
Jul 2012
#8
They do, they steal it from their relatives before they start stealing from elsewhere
NotThisTime
Jul 2012
#23
We just lost a beautiful young 20 year old to heroin. She committed suicide in prison.
HopeHoops
Jul 2012
#6
Part of The Big Lie campaign. Since we learned of their existence, these drugs have been with us at
Egalitarian Thug
Jul 2012
#7
Coke got popular in the 70's because nobody thought it was addictive since then it just changed
craigmatic
Jul 2012
#13
people are more sophisticated about where and how to get. less judgement over recreational use.
Liberal_in_LA
Jul 2012
#18