south australia has a fairly accessible drug scene. There's nothing you can't get and it's really not hard and not more than an hours work to find it even if you don't know anyone here.
Having said that I know a lot of people who have, not fucked up, but "postponed" their lives (and spent thousands) having an affair with drugs. Having said that, nearly every single one has resumed their lives almost exactly where they left off a few years down the track--though usually with a few less friends.
I don't blame the drugs for society's drug problems, I blame society.
I don't think drugs are bad--I think there are many benefits when used in moderation. Everyone I know starts "in moderation". The problem is that they quickly become ostracized from their "normal" friends who have been brainwashed against drugs and against any person who takes drugs. They soon find themselves in the sole company of people who take drugs and eventually have little better to do than to take drugs. I think the segregation part of the drug scene, stemming from society's intolerance of drug users, leads to many of the problems we see today.
Everyone I know who took drugs had a bad patch with them. Almost all of them are over it now and almost all of them are a more well rounded people because of drugs. If anything it has helped them later on all of socially, psychologically, self-critically, emotionally, morally & and in many other areas that I won't even try to list here.
OOPS went off on a rant there.... I'd better get back on topic and end it....
When has the US ever not stuck it's nose in to other people's business?
