Not to start an argument or anything, but if we embargoed everything with shitty sourcing, you couldn’t use any form of electronics, considering the plight of African copper and cobalt miners. Look at the conflict between Rwanda and the DRC
Sure, but the drug business is cunts all the way down. From the people sourcing it to the fuckers who deliver it to your dinner party. They're ALL scum.
I couldn’t do either of those things from behind bars, and it would fuck my brain up with false signals, making me less receptive and responsive to real signals coming from my family, and the misdirection of money and attention would directly cost my family those resources
I don't want to nitpick your very good reasons not to piss your life away, but somebody like Nick would respond to this by saying 'I'm more than capable of reality from fantasy, and the money I spend on drugs remains well within my means.' It's hard to argue with something as subjective as the first, but the second might well be objectively true.
I suppose I'm really talking about my own reasons for not using drugs here though. I used a wide range of hard drugs for many, many years. It might have diverted resources that I could have spent more wisely on my family, but people do this in all manner of ways. Whether it be driving silly cars or having expensive hobbies. I stopped doing it because I couldn't live with subsidizing criminal gangs who were turning local communities into shit holes, terrorizing anybody who objected to their behaviour. Police seemed powerless to do anything about it. They had to stop announcing drug raids the day before they happened, because if they knew they were going to be expected to go on one the following day, EVERYBODY would call in sick. Nobody wants a follow-home, where one of the gang sits outside the police station where you're based and then follows you home to see where you live, where your wife is at, where your kids go to school, etc.
Hence we now have a situation where if you call a troon a troon on twitter, the police will show up mob handed on your doorstep. But complain about gangs of teenage drug dealers openly serving up at the end of your street, you can't get anyone to come for love nor money. 'We're much too busy. It's not a priority. etc.' You'll never get a follow-home from the law abiding people who complain about politicians or trans activists on twitter, so it makes it look as though they're earning that fat salary without actually putting themselves at any risk at all.