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by corbulo 1178 days ago
not doing anything and overindulging in an activity required to live are not equivalents to a drug addiction.
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A drug addiction, yes, sure. But the war on drugs isn't a war on addiction, it's a war on all use.
Does supply play a role in addiction? Opportunity?
I'm not sure exactly what you're asking, but to your point in another comment, I have some sympathy to setting an 'addiction bar' and prohibiting drugs above that bar. Of course, the biggest issue with all these discussions is that, by any objective measure of harm/addiction, alcohol ranks right up there alongside heroin, meth, etc.

But all of this is a tangent to the 'war on drugs' which doesn't even begin to address the issue sensibly.