[winternett]

The problem is when people invite drugs into their lives... It distorts perception and causes so many other issues like clinical depression, physical illness, and mental illnesses that can't properly be treated.

It's also a strange situation in which racial minorities that succumb to drug abuse are seen as criminals, while white people that have the same affliction are seen as "tragic cases of innocent societal victimization".

This world is deeply screwed up, and the music industry is even more so, but it's hard to see a story like this, as someone who wasn't "born with everything" yet still struggling after many years to create a foothold in music out of nothing, while people who have the opportunity of wealth and even ease of relation to celebrities keep failing and burning out... It's not jealousy, it's bewilderment.

The ideal that some sort of superior talent and creativity comes out of genetics, and that nefarious behavior should be forgiven based on genetics is rooted in racial superiority... It's a sham ideology we should all abandon in my opinion, especially when it keeps getting proven to be false. That being said, tragic loss of life should never be ignored and should be a lesson to us all about how to live our lives better.