[wildgift]

Drugs use and addiction are mental health issues. People who use drugs often have other problems. Maybe not serious problems, but, who doesn't have some problems that can't get better with some "talking it out"?

How many of us have had a beer or smoked a bowl of marijuana to "chill out" after the stress of work? It's normal to self-medicate in this modern world. We have to work at jobs, and then we take a chemical that used to be a religous sacrament, and use it to get a little numb and giddy.

People who can't handle life in a modern society... some of them become the drug addicts, who self-medicate to create a curtain between themselves and the world.

[skore]

Correct - there are problems in this world that cannot be solved with force and guns, quite the opposite. The US is learning that in various ways these days.