I was never heavy into drugs but I smoked weed a fair bit in my 20s, knew a lot of other daily users of weed as well as some harder drugs. I don’t think I ever came across a person that randomly decided to do drugs for no reason one day and got hooked. They were all people who had pretty messed up problems in their life that were too complex for them to fix on their own.

So it confuses me when people instantly assume that someone is in a bad situation due to drugs rather than them using drugs to deal with a bad situation. And yes I know drug abuse makes problems worse the vast majority of the time but it’s not what I see as the root issue in a lot of cases, the drug use is a symptom/coping mechanism for people that society have let fall through the cracks.

  • SendMePhotos@lemmy.world
    101·
    10 hours ago

    Can’t that be the same for other things? Drugs, violence, guns, gangs, etc.

    Nobody should want to do those things with a healthy mindset.

    • SharkWeek@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      5 hours ago

      The thing about morality is that it’s a luxury for most people. When you’re put in a position where the only way to survive is to act against your own morals, it kinda breaks all of them.

      And then you rebuild your morals to fit your situation … and if you then overthink it like I did, you realise how many moral standards are just bullshit.