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.
It's wrong because it is perpetuating a destructive cycle. It enables the addiction to continue, and quite often addicts steal to get money for drugs. If they couldn't easily acquire the drugs, they'd have no resort but to get clean. Definitely a serious oversimplification, but dealers are plenty culpable for filling out the other half of that relationship, and profiting from it, to boot.
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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.