Multiple studies have shown that people who’ve ruined their lives with substances would’ve done it with any available one, and since these days meth and heroin are so cheap, they take the brunt of the losers. But if they never had actual access to hard drugs, they’d just have been another person who drank themselves out of a job and away from their family and to their ultimate death and nobody would’ve talked about them. The mentality exists whether or not the drugs do, possession laws are just a lucrative source of income production for the state. If they made heroin legal next week I wouldn’t go out and buy a ton of needles and neither would most humans; most laws here are just revenue generation from the weak. The federal government should almost solely exist to protect us from outside threats. Think about medieval people living in some lord’s territory. They paid him taxes and his army fought off the raiders and rapers, he didn’t tell you what kind of turkey fat you were allowed to eat or what you could consume to have more fun. Charging you money because you had an ecstasy pill in your pocket or you walked across an empty street away from the striped lines is just straight up crony capitalism. Straight up theft. Sorry for the rant, your short comment got me on a string lol. Haven’t done a libertarian tear in awhile but it’s surprising how many people here know as much as they do about the twisted shit in this country but just poo-poo the fact that you’ll have to pay $200 if a cop sees you not wearing a seatbelt. Like, something that affects literally no one except you (whether you had a good or bad drive), and you will have to pay your gubmint with your already over-taxed dollars for it because obviously your government knows what’s safer for you and have the right to make you pay for the insubordinate when you start to make your own choices. Also for the record I wear my seatbelt 100% of the time, feels uncomfortable not wearing it after so many years, so this isn’t a rant about tickets I’ve gotten, it’s strictly an example of principle. The American legislative and judicial system is totalitarianism by definition. You must wait in your running car at completely empty intersections until a light on a timer gives you permission to go. You must restrict what you put into your body because we told you it’s bad for you even though we’ve been horribly awfully wrong about what should go into your body for the last seven or eight decades. You must pay us taxes for the right to live in a property that someone else owns and also pays taxes while both of you have already had 25-40% stolen from your paychecks before you ever even saw it. And yes, goi, it’s completely normal, stop asking questions, and don’t bother buying your own place because those taxes just go WAY up, for no the fuck reason. Rant over, needed someone at least partially likeminded apparently lol