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I love how you blame the users here, and not the government for failing to legalise, regulate and tax narcotics.

Blame your government for the black market profiting from the illicit sales of drugs.

Humans have been seeking to alter their state of mind for pretty much as long as there have been humans and they will continue to do so.

It's a force of nature that cannot be stopped and denying it only causes more suffering.

[Scramblejams]

Nobody's holding a gun to your head and forcing you to fund cartels. Everybody makes a choice.

You wanna buy mind-altering substances from legally grown sources, through a legal distribution network? Fine. But if you pay into the black market, there isn't enough blame shifting in the world to change the fact that you've got blood on your hands. Bleat about the ills of government all you want, but it won't reduce your complicity.

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> You wanna buy mind-altering substances from legally grown sources, through a legal distribution network? Fine.

Very US-centric view. I can't. Weed is illegal in this country, and even if it wasn't that's not the drug I want.

I want LSD, which will never be made legal. Am I going to stop buying it? Am I fuck.

> Bleat about the ills of government all you want, but it won't reduce your complicity.

I'll reiterate;

It's a force of nature that cannot be stopped and denying it only causes more suffering.

By the same fallacious logic you are complicit in the murder of hundreds of thousnds of people in US wars of aggression or the massive increase of asthma and respiratory conditions in children due to your cars being on the road.

You. You are complicit.

Get over your mastabatory self-righteousness, it's not as attractive as you think.

[Scramblejams]

You admit LSD will never be legal. So some of that revenue unavoidably goes to the cartels. They kill people with your money. You know that. But you send them your cash anyway. The mental contortions you are forced to engage in to deny your responsibility for your contribution to cartels' violence do not interest me.

If you were determined to behave ethically, you would refuse to buy the stuff unless you could procure it legally. And if you couldn't obtain it legally, you would abstain.

And as for the tortured war and asthma comparisons, see https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism