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To: TobagoJack who wrote (196755)	2/26/2023 2:37:56 AM
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Overdose, drugs, addiction, death, debilitation, pleasure, oblivion, reality, free will, sorrow, anxiety, dopamine, seratonin, endorphins, receptors, natural, artificial, perception, thinking. Among those, I'm sure I can find a guilty party, or not, or something. Unlike the fatal covid vaxx clot-shot, which was forced onto people with dire threats and enforcement action, consuming drugs is a free will activity. Scott Adams says people have no free will and they just do what their neural networks tell them to do. I've formed various harmful habits over the decades, such as sugar consumption, ethanol, tobacco, eating pies, getting a bit on the fat side, computer games, ranting in Silicon Investor, reading too much. But after a certain amount of anything, I decide I've had enough of that and I drop it, or cut it wayyy back. Somehow, I'm in charge. But some people seem not to have self-control systems. Singapore takes a tough line on suppliers and consumers. As with graffiti. Singapore has no problem with them. Some places leave people to do what they like = such as Australia 150 years ago. I read a ships cargo schedule in Melbourne's library from the latish 19th century. Along with tobacco, whisky and what have you, opium was a cargo. In Aotearoa-Zimbabwe when I was a child, the Chinese in Greys Avenue, Auckland, would smoke opium. Our grandsons' paternal grandmother remembers going there as a child and seeing Chinese men smoking away [her mother was a mainlander from near Hong Kong as was her father]. At some stage, marijuana, opium, booze all were banned, and gambling also was heavily restricted. Now swarms of people think they are cool with their wide-ranging drug consumption. Drug laws are so lax now that people largely ignore them. Laws seem to make the drugs "cool", "daring". and promote consumption. Showing defiance is a motivation when it's not the death penalty. Singapore's dire punishment seems to work. San Francisco's minor punishment does not. Children need protection. Many adults do too. But a sense of self-preservation is essential. Everything is too impossibly complex to figure out individually. For example, health and safety hazards in workplaces and chemicals that can be made and sold. I prefer to leave adults alone to do what they like. But I can understand the impetus to ban and execute those who supply. China objected to England selling opium. USA objects to Made in China fentanyl killing about 100,000 per year in USA. It might be worth the effort for China to stop producing fentanyl for USA. Cigarette companies certainly got a bad reputation. Being tarred with the fentanyl brush could do a lot of damage to China. Mqurice