Not OP, but I think it’s insane to believe that pointing out that the drugs trade is unethical is a “ridiculous viewpoint” and a cover for being “anti drugs”. As if the person that needs defending is a rich white teenager for doing coke and not the people that have nothing that are being groomed, trafficked, and/or killed so she can buy a baggie... Where drugs cross the Maghreb illegally, drug traffickers are sometimes forced to collaborate with literal terrorist organisations that have control of the area. Can you imagine going to work and your coworker is someone that passively or actively contributes to murder and sex slavery, or is someone that has killed someone from your home town?
I take drugs and pre-COVID went to raves and I will go back once this is all over. But I stopped buying coke because the trade is so awful - yes, there’s no ethical consumption under late capitalism, but the cocaine trade is on a completely different scale, partly because it can’t be created in a lab, like MDMA (whose customer base is different to other lab-synthesised drugs like meth, because it doesn’t function so much on addiction or highly regular use), partly because it’s highly illegal, unlike weed.
So you’re pro-drug legalisation, great, so am I, but you are doing more harm than good to your own cause by discouraging people from paying attention to the ethics of the trade and harm reduction. If we want drugs to be legalised, more people have to campaign for harm reduction and against the exploitation involved in certain parts of the trade. I thought young drug users would be motivated toward this, but more work obviously needs to be done to raise awareness going by the clear lack of care and education about drug use in Olivia’s audience
I know that I’m being quite sharp with you, but it’s because I don’t understand how you can be more arsed about some teenager embarrassing themselves by wearing a weed jumper and not being as seasoned a drug user as you apparently are, than you are about human rights? And how you can genuinely think it’s OK to frame that viewpoint as “ridiculous”? The violence of the drug trade, people being forced to work alongside corrupt drug cartels and terrorist organisations, kids being roped into county lines, a new generation of drug users dying from preventable misuse - this stuff is objectively worse than Flossie making a
twit of herself on live
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Sorry for the double post edit, but this just shows the huge level of privilege and wilful ignorance amongst some drug users in the west. What’s funny about people trafficking and murder
@northernspaces ? Y’all are so sensitive about people being “judgmental” of you over buying a bag I s2g, as if you’re hard done by for being told to do your research
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