We’re seen as the scum of society, even though MOST people have at least tried alcohol or cigarettes, which weirdly are legal despite their being some of the MOST destructive drugs.
Exactly! It's so hypocritical. The masses have never been bright. They always go along with the current zeitgeist. The difference between the attitude people and especially pharmacists and doctors had towards opioids in the late 19th to the early 20th century, and the attitude they have today is like night and day. Just read one of those old pharmacy books, like Martindale's "Extra Pharmacopoeia 1st edition" from 1883 to see how pharmacists (who were incredibly versatile btw and had more in common with pharmaceutical chemists than modern pharmacists. That was a time when division of labor didn't exist.) viewed opium and morphine. The word "addiction" didn't exist back then, and as the philosopher Wittgenstein said to eloquently: the limits of my language are the limits of my world. It was seen as both a pain medicine and a really helpful antidepressent (and a ton of other things) which according to the author some people simply need to cope better with life. The only people who saw that as an issue were the religious fanatics known as the puritans.
The co-author of that book who was a practicing doctor and chemist (good luck finding such polymaths today lol) wrote something very interesting and hilariously true on these anti-drug fanatics in one of the chapters on psychoactive drug making:
"The abstainer. A weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself the elixirs of pleasure that god hath given us. A total abstainer is of the worst and most dangerous kind, for he is not only one who abstains from everything but abstention, but continuously fails to abstain from meddling with the affairs of those who do not abstain."
That is soooo brutally true! And look where we are now. These masochistic fanatics have taken over the medical institution and deny us to buy and or manufacture the delicious molecules we need to sweeten our life and ease our physical as well as psychological pains.
I can only recommend you to read one of those old books on the good ol' art of pharmacopoeia. It sometimes feels like reading a cross between a pharmaceutical chemistry textbook and an old witchcraft grimoire using herbal preparations 'n shit
You will really benefit from it, health wise, knowledge wise and also in other aspects. They have some really cool instructions for medicines that everyone can make at home (not all of course, as some require a laboratory). Medications that don't exist anymore, and knowledge and wisdom that has been forgotten and replaced by rockefeller funded big pharma quackery. Just to give you an example from a german pharmacopoeia book from 1902 that I read a couple years ago, which gives readers a recipe for a super healthy, all natural and powerful toothpaste that will whiten your teeth over time and make future visits at the dentist for you and your lovely children completely redundant:
-> Take one part water
-> 2/5 part (40%) coconut oil
-> 1/2 part turmeric powder
-> one part pulverized peppermint leaves.
Heat the water, but don't allow it to start vaporizing, then add the oil and start stirring, first quickly until the solute (oil) has distributed itself more evenly in the water (hard to describe what I mean, but you'll know it once you actually do it. It's ready once you see many tiny oil bubbles in the water) and then more slowly for one or two minutes. Now start adding the turmeric while slowly stirring. Avoid adding too much turmeric at once to prevent it from forming clumps. Once the turmeric has completely dissolved, add the pulverized peppermint to the mixture. Stir one more time for two minutes, take it off the stove and let the mixture cool off. Pour the solution into brown glass bottles (to avoid UV light from degrading the molecules) and the toothpaste shall be ready for use. Store in a dark and cool room (we got refrigeratorzzz now 
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Source: translated by me from Hager's Handbuch der pharmazeutischen Praxis 1896.
This is where the recent hype on social media about this natural toothpaste comes from, without people actually knowing it. The genius behind this discovery was the pharmacist Hans Hermann Julius Hager. You might be wondering how in the world turmeric will aid in whitening your teeth since that stuff is as yellow as it can be. Well, turns out that turmeric has phenolic compounds called Curcuminoids which remove the plaque from your teeth and thus it results in whiter teeth over time (won't happen over night ofc). To make matters even better turmeric is also an antimicrobial and an antioxidant.
This is just one of many examples how such books can aid and benefit you in the most practical and down-to-earth matters in your everyday life. Your kids will thank you for that. On top of that you'll save A LOT of money and your dentist will start to hate you because he just lost a valuable cash cow lol. I'm brushing my teeth with this since years and haven't gone to the dentist ever since. No tartar, no parodontitis, no plaque, no nothing!
Since we are all junkies here, we might as well become our own pharmacists, don't you think?
