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Drug Addiction: The Double Standard

20.05.12

However, other sources claim that drug abuse in the U.S. has stabilized over the past two decades and significantly declined since peaking in the early 1980s.

Nonetheless, drug abuse remains a huge and seemingly intractable problem in the U.S., the developed world and elsewhere.

According to Drugwarfacts.org, “in both the United States and Europe, the wholesale and street prices of cannabis and cocaine have declined in the past several years, although reportedly their potency has increased and demand remains steady. Across the world, illicit drugs appear to be available at stable or declining prices.”

The bottom line is that there are hundreds of millions of people around the world who like drugs (including legal prescription medicines and painkillers) and will continue to use them for various reasons. No power on heaven or earth can stop this practice.

I am not here to “moralize” about drug use – that is not my intention, nor is such a discussion within my scope of ability and expertise. Indeed, although I am no libertarian, I hew to the clichéd line which basically states: “You can do whatever you want as long as it doesn't harm me or anyone else.”

Source: International Business Times UK