Misconceptions About Drug Addictions

Everyone can agree that drug addiction is a very bad thing. Cocaine being an obvious example of that. Meth, Heroin, Opiates of all kinds. Many people are addicts themselves. Often times when "drug studies" are done, they exclude the legal substances. Nicotine, alcohol, caffeine, even sugar should be taken into account. Humans in general stuff tons of chemicals into their bodies that are harmful, while at the same time banning chemicals that are not addicting and not harmful to the body. I guess that's the point I'm slowly getting at. Marijuana, hallucinogenic mushrooms, and LSD are examples of the drugs I'm referring to. To take lethal amounts of these drugs is next to impossible. Now, to take too much of these drugs, would be ill-advised, as with alcohol, nicotine, caffeine, and sugar.

But for crying out loud! We're just shoveling prozac, aderol, ritalin, caffeine, and God knows what down our throats and wondering why we're addicted to drugs. I went on a rant here. I'll close this up. Addiction is awful, no matter what the addiction is to, if that be Heroin, alcohol, cigarettes, ice cream, Starbucks, sex, painkillers, etc. How do we decide where to draw the line? Why do we make tobacco legal and marijuana illegal? Why do we make heroin illegal and and Percaset legal? Finally, addiction is never the drug in question's fault. Addiction is a problem of the mind. Some people are addicted to religion, they end up causing things like 9/11, or they go on national TV and gay bash, resulting in a high number of teen suicides. These people are addicted to religion. Should we make that illegal as well? Obviously not, drugs, religion, whatever, are not the bad guys. We are. And We need to change.