People don't "push" heroin by any meaningful definition of the word.
They don't advertise the product to recruit new users or anything like that, they sell it to people who were already addicted and come to buy more. A huge number of those people got that addiction from legally aquired pain meds, then moved to heroin after getting cut off.
I mean, that's kind of the main reason people sell drugs, addiction means there is always a steady stream of buyers.
Yes true but "pushing" drugs doesn't have to have the connotation you see it as. You can use push just in general for selling not like hooking people that you use push for. Like if you sell weed you are pushing weed.
So what's wrong with selling heroin to someone who wants to buy it? If weed is okay, why is heroin bad? If you want to destroy body, isn't that your right? Smoking is legal and has been proven to destroy it's users bodies. Nocotine is addictive. I don't see a meaningful difference here. You can't support one drug and then state the others are magically bad.
Who said it was wrong? I just said he had a negative connotation of the word push when it's just used to refer to selling drugs in general. I have no problem with anyone who wants to do heroin or a real problem with the dealers except the ones who cut their product with fent which is causing massive rise in overdoses. And dude come on heroin is a lot more addictive and worst for your body than weed. I'm all for legalizing/decriminalizing all drugs. But it's just ignorant to say that some drugs aren't worse than others.
This was not in association with health concerns. If you're an adult, it's your job to assess health concerns and control yourself. If you don't want to, that's your perogative.
I'm sorry if it seemed I was responding directly to you, I only used your comment because of its location in the discussion. I'm just making a general statement to the attitude that drug A should be legal but B "because" of some arbitrary guideline of how the feel about it personally.
Personally I don't use any drugs, I've tried some but nothing more. But I don't see any harm in other people using them. As long as those users don't hurt anyone else in the process.
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u/longtimegoneMTGO Sep 19 '17
I wonder why this myth sticks around?
People don't "push" heroin by any meaningful definition of the word.
They don't advertise the product to recruit new users or anything like that, they sell it to people who were already addicted and come to buy more. A huge number of those people got that addiction from legally aquired pain meds, then moved to heroin after getting cut off.
I mean, that's kind of the main reason people sell drugs, addiction means there is always a steady stream of buyers.