I’m certainly not disagreeing with you. You are a knowledgable and educated person on this subject and I would never challenge your experience and understanding.
The real sad thing is regulation and big business go hand in hand these days and they will look to expand the market, increase the usage and frequency of usage and increase dependence of customers.
They will also look to increase the medical usage through reduction of diagnosis criteria and expand self-identification of symptoms which they will then enable doctors to convert to prescriptions through legal routes much the same way as they have already done with the opioid market.
Totally agree on the cigarettes, I was MLights. And I still haven’t got on to spirits, but I never drank for the joy of the drink, I drank for the joy of being drunk like most kids, teens and young adults.
One final thing. I personally know no alcoholics, yet in January was asked to sponsor countless people who were doing Dry January. If alcohol wasn’t socially and mentally addictive why would we reward people for simply not drinking! Our definition of addiction is skewed to ease our guilt about our addictions.
The real sad thing is regulation and big business go hand in hand these days and they will look to expand the market, increase the usage and frequency of usage and increase dependence of customers.
They will also look to increase the medical usage through reduction of diagnosis criteria and expand self-identification of symptoms which they will then enable doctors to convert to prescriptions through legal routes much the same way as they have already done with the opioid market.
Totally agree on the cigarettes, I was MLights. And I still haven’t got on to spirits, but I never drank for the joy of the drink, I drank for the joy of being drunk like most kids, teens and young adults.
One final thing. I personally know no alcoholics, yet in January was asked to sponsor countless people who were doing Dry January. If alcohol wasn’t socially and mentally addictive why would we reward people for simply not drinking! Our definition of addiction is skewed to ease our guilt about our addictions.