that said, leftists understand that criminalizing drug use does not help in emancipating workers from addiction or in abolishing nihilistic attitudes towards consumption. this is a battle that must be waged via information, not with the force of authority.

the proper solution is to build a society where people have better things to do than get stoned, and consequently don't want to be stoned all of the time.

kind of like how i've built my life.

i realize that the drugs are affecting my productivity, and i don't like it. the ideal is to create systems where everybody has enough self-interest in their own labour that they feel this way; drug abuse is abolished not by force but via mass disengagement and mass disinterest.

it follows that the solution to drug addiction is the same thing as the solution to religion - the eradication of poverty.