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Originally Posted by PR_Glen
actually its quite a gigantic difference and here's your example. How many casual drinkers do you know? now how many casual heroin users? Even if you know a few they don't ever stay that way believe me...
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That's a good point....some things are more easily addictive to a greater number of people.
There actually ARE casual heroin users out there. Not many, but there are.
Nicotine is another one that is one of the MOST addictive drugs ever. Smoking cigarettes is the hardest addiction for people to quit. And that one leads you to the most horrible death you can have.
Alcohol...probably the second worst. For most people it's no big deal. But a lot of folks have a genetic physiological propensity to become alcoholics. I've seen so many of them in my life.
But in the end...it shouldn't be up to other people to COMMAND another adult person in a "free" society as to what they can and can't do with their lives.
At one point Heroin was 100% legal. It was invented by the Bayer company and sold over the counter at drug stores (no prescription).
I was listening to an interview with Al Lewis (Grandpa Munster from the old Munsters show) back when he was still alive. He was running for Mayor of some town and was a Libertarian.
He talked about how when he was a kid he used to go down to the drugstore for his grandmother and buy heroin for her when he was 8 years old.
His grandma wasn't an addict by the way. Nor where the majority of people who used it.
But doctors started seeing that it was becoming habit forming and the next thing you know...the U.S. Govt. stepped in (in all of it's wisdom) and made it ILLEGAL.
What happened next? The percentage of junkies ROSE, and they created an entire new revenue stream for organized crime.
