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OfflineCrystal G
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    #16009145 - 03/28/12 02:20 PM (12 years, 3 days ago)


(Please let me know what you guys as a community think of this piece I wrote. Whether the points raised are valid and what not. I ask because I wrote this for another forum, on the low-traffic lycaeum actually, but I really want to publish this somewhere in an online zine, but I’m not sure where to send it in. I don't know of many news stations that would publish these sort of submissions. Does anybody have any tips on where to submit this? Or offer constructive criticism on which points need more work. Thanks in advance.)


Drug users. The mere words incite an overt emotional response from the general public. The Christian right calls us depraved and immoral, calling on their desires to execute a swift kick of justice by harsh prison terms. Countries such as Cambodia and Thailand impose the death penalty for those involved with the business of serving our kind. The liberal left wants us to undergo forced interventions, rehabilitations, and psychiatric treatments.

Society demonizes the very essence of who we are and what we do. Addiction specialists and activists state that we are the last minority group to be judged and discriminated against in society. In hospitals, we are mistreated by MDs, RNs, technicians, and medical staff. In court, our drug use is used by the prosecution as a stance to assassinate our characters, manipulating and playing into the jury’s bias of drug users as being linked to crime. Our only “crime” was that we enjoy consumption of mind-altering chemicals. When drugs enter the legal equation, our children are forcibly taken away by Child Services; our families disseminated. Employers actively discriminate our kind. The average person berates people like us openly. When such articles explaining why hard drug users commit suicide are divulged, it is no wonder why we feel like the last persecuted underground culture. Our subculture is despised by many.

But why are drug users so despised judgmentally? Where is the inherent bias of this underground subculture stemming from? The reason is simple. Time and time again, scholarly texts and news articles have exposed the Drug War as being stringently linked to racist and classist attitudes. The proposition I put forth arguably goes on even further, correlating the link between the War on Drugs to the war against poverty, the war against minorities, and the war against the homeless.

They claim we are a tremendous burden to the average taxpayer, through the societal costs the tribulations of our actions result in. Our kind is considered not simply lazy and inefficient in the labor force. The perils of our kind is further exaggerated, said to account for the additional costs of hospital visits that never get paid, from the costs of the penitentiary and judicial system that is a result of our crimes, from children we birth who grow up poor, abused, and neglected, and through the concoction of grandiose welfare schemes. Efficiency of the corporate empire and the collective economic status of our country takes precedence over the health of the individual. What is considered of significant importance is not the overall measure of happiness or quality of life, but of the specific incremental amounts of money our drug use indirectly causes.

We are blamed for contributing to the root of all crime. Even victimless crimes such as prostitution, are perceived to contribute to the degeneration of society. This displaces a focal emphasis and scrutiny solely on blue-collar crime—on the crime of the impoverished—rather than white collar crime, which is not seen as the privileged equivalent of contributing to the deterioration of society, but as something that is simply not prosecuted as much or given as much attention. It perpetuates and decimates the stereotype of the poor and deranged drug addict, who exhibits no morals by the very fault of being associated as just that--a typical drug user.

It is not commonly thought of, that the overwhelming majority of violent crimes, date rapes, suicides, and assaults involve alcohol rather than scheduled or illicit drugs. Even among drug users, there is a hierarchy of acceptance based upon the premises of legality. In our society, alcoholics retain higher statuses than pill poppers, who retain higher statuses than illicit drug users. Within the illegal drug-using population, the hierarchy goes marijuana smokers to DMT psychonauts, to psychedelic LSD and mushroom trippers, to ecstasy rollers to cocaine-snorters, to meth-pipe-smokers to crack-smokers, to meth-injectors to heroin injectors. Those who inject as their primary method of administration are cretins among the lowest of the low. It is not the drunkards or the Oxycontin and Adderall pill poppers who are marginalized, but the addicts who succumb to the black market.

They blame us for corrupting the welfare system. It perpetuates the myth of the welfare queen, who holds no job but continuously pops out babies, all to sustain her extravagant lifestyle through the collection of welfare checks. According to these conservatives, we secretly live like kings, supporting our drug habits by selling our food stamps for profit, secretly sipping champagne and eating lobster behind closed doors. It falls back on the recycled, tired old myths about welfare recipients—that we are all on drugs, inept, and lazy, that we lack incentives to better ourselves, for we have earned rewards based on entitlement rather than criteria eligibility. This is why some states have proposed mandated drug testing on all welfare recipients, even though Florida has essentially proven that statewide drug testing costs more than it saves. The image of the drug-addled welfare king is a myth that pertains to the minority. It is a direct, full-frontal assault and attempt to criminalize the economically disadvantaged.

They claim we are inept at parenting. Subsequently, we are blamed for contributing to the problem of overpopulation. The progeny we procreate are considered as belonging to the genetic cesspool of inferiority. According to the professionals, to even dare to take drugs, even non-toxic, non-addictive drugs, while raising a family, is in and of itself, considered neglect and abuse. Social Services seizes our children, tearing apart entire families, without any indication that our drug use prevents us from being responsible parents. Without any inclination that the alternative of foster care is any less harmful or traumatic than being raised by recreational drug users. They judge us not based on individual cases, but based on the collective bias that drug users are by default, unfit parents. Once again, it is never the legal drug users, the alcoholic or the pill-popper, whose families are torn apart, but those who are consumers of the illicit drug market. In the end, it is our children who suffer the most. Our children are alienated, ostracized, forced into “the system,” where they may undergo the trauma of being ripped from their birth parents and placed into multiple foster homes.

The reasoning behind the argument of the medical costs is based upon the belief that drug users cast financial dampers onto society through hospital trips and office visits that never get paid. The fact that medical costs are so expensively unattainable for the average citizen is not what is considered problematic. The problem is apparently, the fact that doctors, hospitals, and insurance companies, who are all already producing an exorbitant profit, are not making the maximum profit that they should be.  According to these people, this is not even an argument to lower medical costs, or for socialized medicine. It is an argument to criminalize and create further hostility for the “drug-using race,” by ostracizing them as the outcasts and burden to society that they are.

It is the same premise behind the argument of us composing inefficient labor percentages in the market. This argument is based upon the belief that drug users cost X amount of dollars in workers’ compensation claims. Assuming this is true, it should be important to note that certain fields that are prone to accidents are predisposed with a high prevalence for drug use (such as construction or oil rigging), simply out of the fact that the rigorous amount of labor they do cannot be completed by everybody without the aid of stimulants for energy, or painkillers to alleviate pain. Other, less-hazardous types of work such as the law field, restaurant business, journalism, photography, or hotel management typically do not result in as many incidences or claims that result in drug testing; thus, it can never be known for certain whether there is as more or less efficiency resulting from drug use in these departments.

Yet for some reason, while everybody continues to focus on the societal costs that the user imposes, all the while everybody seemingly ignores the societal costs resulting from the criminal prohibition of drug users. The $2.6 billion it annually costs to employ the DEA, combined with the $38 billion it costs to house drug offenders, would be more than enough to cover all the medical and economic costs attributed to drug users nationwide. The largest threat and impact of the drug trade, stems not from the user, but from the resulting conflict between organized crime, the mafia and criminal gangs, and the police and the DEA. So it is rather interesting that while the activity inducing this alleged economic drainage is continuously proposed and supported to be banned, the laws inducing most of this economic drainage remain untouched and even unquestioned.

But ultimately, what is most problematic about this argument for the inefficiency of labor, seems to be the fact that we are costing the rich corporations more money.  Instead of assaulting the shrinking middle class, or arguing against the wage not meeting up with inflation standards, or combating the rising tuition and housing rates, it is an attempt to deflection attention away from the injustices of the government, and to cast blame onto the leeches of society—the poor, the homeless, and lastly, the drug users. Even when we partake in philanthropic activity, it is automatically discredited by our lifestyle choices.

This is a declaration for all you recreational users, rogue chemists, activists, addicts, and recreational users. The time has come for a new dawn. We must remember that we are hated, not because of the very drugs that we take, but because of our correlation to other marginalized groups in society—to minorities, to the homeless, and to the impoverished. Society may demonize the very essence of who we are, but we shall take an oath, to never internalize that demonization. We shall not character-assassinate other users, even long after we ourselves sober up. I urge us all to come together, to unite and proactively fight against the very biases and declarations that hold our movement back. I compel you to continuously expand your minds, in an effort to challenge the negative stereotypes about who we are. It is time to confront society with who we are. It is time to expose our real selves. It is time to stop living in hiding.

It is time for a new dawn.

Edited by Crystal G (03/28/12 02:25 PM)

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Re: The Drug User's Manifesto (as the last hated subculture on earth) [Re: Crystal G]
    #16009169 - 03/28/12 02:25 PM (12 years, 3 days ago)

I like the ideas presented, however the writing itself is not ready for publication in my opinion. It's not "symmetrical" enough, if you get my gist.

If you'd like, I can print it out and annotate it to show you what I mean by that. Can also edit it a little for you.

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Re: The Drug User's Manifesto (as the last hated subculture on earth) [Re: Crystal G]
    #16009227 - 03/28/12 02:36 PM (12 years, 3 days ago)

I think you articulated your thoughts well. Most people tend to shy away from reading something so long though, especially people who are already opposed to any type of drug use.

What is it you want to achieve by publishing something of this nature?

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Re: The Drug User's Manifesto (as the last hated subculture on earth) [Re: trampis]
    #16009349 - 03/28/12 03:04 PM (12 years, 3 days ago)

Crystal G your my goddamn hero, are you REALLY BACK??????????
By the way, I enjoyed your read very much so... so you been creeping the lycaum lately huh? :strokebeard:


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Re: The Drug User's Manifesto (as the last hated subculture on earth) [Re: trampis]
    #16009509 - 03/28/12 03:42 PM (12 years, 3 days ago)

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shroomie_glen said:
Crystal G your my goddamn hero, are you REALLY BACK??????????
By the way, I enjoyed your read very much so... so you been creeping the lycaum lately huh? :strokebeard:




Sort of. I got clean a while ago, am getting ready to apply to some PhD programs, and the Lyc is really the only website that I ever visit anymore, and even then I've been getting further and further estranged from the entire drug community. Sorry I have neglected you guys for a while. :blush:

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What is it you want to achieve by publishing something of this nature?




I don't know if achievement is the right word. I'm a writer by profession, whenever I think up a good spin for a topic I'm always submitting articles to an incredibly diverse section of news conglomerates--anywhere from human rights groups to women's fashion magazines such as Cosmopolitan to small, local feminist zines such as Digg.

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Re: The Drug User's Manifesto (as the last hated subculture on earth) [Re: Crystal G]
    #16009638 - 03/28/12 04:18 PM (12 years, 3 days ago)

Overall I felt it was fantastic, but the ending paragraph was a little redundant in my opinion.

Good shit though :awethumb:


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Re: The Drug User's Manifesto (as the last hated subculture on earth) [Re: Crystal G]
    #16009653 - 03/28/12 04:21 PM (12 years, 3 days ago)

I thought you died a few years ago, don't really have a comment on your article as its too long for me to read.  If anyone wants to sum it up in a paragraph or 2 I will read that.


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Re: The Drug User's Manifesto (as the last hated subculture on earth) [Re: fapjack]
    #16009877 - 03/28/12 05:20 PM (12 years, 3 days ago)

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I thought you died a few years ago, don't really have a comment on your article as its too long for me to read.  If anyone wants to sum it up in a paragraph or 2 I will read that.




Been resurrected from the dead and trying to keep a low profile due to the nature of my education and work.

Its a shame young people in today's society are not dedicated enough to read a couple pages of material. :frown: in academia you are expected to read a book in 1 week sometimes. But I understand, it's the shroomery, so here is the summary...

Drug users endure prejudice from society for the following reasons:
1.  By the very fact that a neutral act, such as drug taking, has a moral quality imposed to it, and the very nature of altered mindstates is criminalized and considered immoral.

2. Because society demonizes minorities and the poor, which are associated with drug users. It perpetuates the stereotypical myth of the welfare queen popping out babies, collecting check, living off champagne and lobster, selling her welfare checks for a profit to buy crack. Which is a myth just like the tooth fairy, which conservatives use as reasons to cut welfare completely

3. We are considered lazy and inefficient at work, and apparently cost society not just through this work, but from the cost of our crimes, welfare, and unpaid hospital visits. Alcoholics have no prejudice in the same way drug users, even recreational ones do.

Subsequently, all of these points and more were refuted and debunked. It criticizes the precedence and economic priority is overvalued over other remnants of life that contribute to overall quality of life.

The whole purpose of this piece was not to push the anti prohibition agenda, but to get people to realize that when they use terms such as "fucking junkie" or "fucking crackhead" as perjoratives, they are playing into accepted conservative bias against minorities, the poor, and the homeless.

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Re: The Drug User's Manifesto (as the last hated subculture on earth) [Re: Crystal G]
    #16009975 - 03/28/12 05:46 PM (12 years, 3 days ago)

first off, you're a good writer. i think your intro is awesome but there seems to be a few problems with your thesis, which i am taking to be this:

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Crystal G said:The proposition I put forth arguably goes on even further, correlating the link between the War on Drugs to the war against poverty, the war against minorities, and the war against the homeless.




1. your arguments don't seem to follow your thesis from what i'm seeing.

2. even if they did follow your thesis, your arguments don't follow logically. the horror of the war on drugs is that it is a war that renders anyone and everyone who uses illegal drugs a criminal regardless of race, class etc. the drug war along with the legal system undoubtedly targets minorities and the poor, but those groups are hardly the only casualties. as you've mentioned, those subjects have been written on exhaustively, so imo you should focus on how the drug war affects all levels of society.

one thing i always do when formulating a thesis is listing my arguments in the order in which they are presented. for example, if i was writing about why house bunnies are great as pets, i'd say something like "bunnies are great as pets because they are inexpensive to care for, clean and personable" and list my supporting arguments for that in the order of their low cost to care for, their cleanliness and they're unique personalities as pets. this technique keeps your points in focus. focus is everything and can make a huge difference in how effective your rhetoric is.

reformulate, refocus and reorganize.

hope that helps.


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Edited by millzy (03/28/12 05:59 PM)

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Re: The Drug User's Manifesto (as the last hated subculture on earth) [Re: millzy]
    #16009990 - 03/28/12 05:52 PM (12 years, 3 days ago)

As has been said, great points, but it could use a little more organization to present the ideas more clearly.

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Re: The Drug User's Manifesto (as the last hated subculture on earth) [Re: millzy]
    #16010036 - 03/28/12 06:03 PM (12 years, 3 days ago)

Millzy, you're right about the 1st point. I should edit that, because I'm not actually correlating the drug war to anything. Rather, the premise of this article is that bias of drug users is inherently linked to discrimination against the poor, the homeless, and minorities. How it affects society was not the purpose of my article at all. Also this is not my dissertation or school project or anything (was confused by the word thesis you used), so I wasn't too particular about using empirical evidence like I would have in a peer review study. Rather, it is calling on awareness to those who use the term Drug User as a perjorative.

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Re: The Drug User's Manifesto (as the last hated subculture on earth) [Re: Crystal G]
    #16010078 - 03/28/12 06:13 PM (12 years, 3 days ago)

a thesis summarizes your arguments. in order to effectively use rhetoric you're going to need one to let the reader know what they're about to start reading. this has nothing to do with school; it's about good, focused writing.


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Re: The Drug User's Manifesto (as the last hated subculture on earth) [Re: Crystal G]
    #16010129 - 03/28/12 06:22 PM (12 years, 3 days ago)

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the premise of this article is that bias of drug users is inherently linked to discrimination against the poor, the homeless, and minorities.




Let me get this strait... The article is about drug users being discriminated against because society associates use with being impoverished?

So could your "point" be more about providing evidence that people have used drugs and been successful as well as responsible... ?

Maybe give some examples of people who have done so (if that is what you are wanting to articulate).

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Re: The Drug User's Manifesto (as the last hated subculture on earth) [Re: trampis]
    #16010168 - 03/28/12 06:32 PM (12 years, 3 days ago)

the whole time i was reading this i kept saying "it's the fuckin n*****s"

It amazes me how people's beliefs are manipulated.


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Re: The Drug User's Manifesto (as the last hated subculture on earth) [Re: fuel on the fire]
    #16010282 - 03/28/12 06:55 PM (12 years, 3 days ago)

Decent piece, but a few question for the OP.

1. If you had your own business, would you hire a crack user or heroin addict?  Would you trust them with your livelihood?

2. If you had a child, would you let a junkie watch them for you?

The fact of the matter is, drugs ruin many people lives, most drug users make terrible employees, and are very irresponsible for even taking care of themselves.

The drug war is bullshit, and it ruins many peoples lives. There is a better way to deal with drug users, and drug addicts other than the criminal justice system.

There is nothing glorious about drug addiction, and it is a burden for society, the key is how to deal with it properly.

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Re: The Drug User's Manifesto (as the last hated subculture on earth) [Re: qman]
    #16010335 - 03/28/12 07:05 PM (12 years, 3 days ago)

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Decent piece, but a few question for the OP.

1. If you had your own business, would you hire a crack user or heroin addict?  Would you trust them with your livelihood?

2. If you had a child, would you let a junkie watch them for you?

The fact of the matter is, drugs ruin many people lives, most drug users make terrible employees, and are very irresponsible for even taking care of themselves.

The drug war is bullshit, and it ruins many peoples lives. There is a better way to deal with drug users, and drug addicts other than the criminal justice system.

There is nothing glorious about drug addiction, and it is a burden for society, the key is how to deal with it properly.




1. There's a difference between a "user" and an "addict" we need to differentiate so we can understand whether they're fit to work or if they need treatment. But they should never be treated as criminals...

2. a Junkie? No. A casual drug user whom is responsible? Yes.

The key problem with the drug war is it doesn't differentiate from responsible recreational users and people who are addicted and need professional help, and it criminalizes something that is not wrong in any way.


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Re: The Drug User's Manifesto (as the last hated subculture on earth) [Re: qman]
    #16010420 - 03/28/12 07:19 PM (12 years, 3 days ago)

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qman said:
Decent piece, but a few question for the OP.

1. If you had your own business, would you hire a crack user or heroin addict?  Would you trust them with your livelihood?

2. If you had a child, would you let a junkie watch them for you?

The fact of the matter is, drugs ruin many people lives, most drug users make terrible employees, and are very irresponsible for even taking care of themselves.

The drug war is bullshit, and it ruins many peoples lives. There is a better way to deal with drug users, and drug addicts other than the criminal justice system.

There is nothing glorious about drug addiction, and it is a burden for society, the key is how to deal with it properly.




First of all it depends on the work. If it involves the handling of a lot of money, probably not. I understand some addicts do steal to sustain their addictions. But jobs such as janitorial or construction work or writing, customer service, teaching, whatever, has almost no risk factor. In fact fields such as construction and oil rigging are prevalent with drug use.  As far as work efficiency, I don't believe drugs make you any less efficient. I myself was an addict and always finished what I had to. The one thing I WOULDN'T do, is drug test prospective employees. As long as they are doing their jobs, I could care less what they do outside of work.

Same goes for kids. I was an addict and people told me I was always good with kids. I had a job teaching children when I was younger, while I was an addict. I wouldn't put my kids in the care of anybody I didn't know well enough, addict or not. I would judge them based on their character, not whether they used drugs or not. Focusing on drugs overlooks other factors that affects likelihood of ability to take care of children, such as tendency towards assault, whether they drink and drive, etc.

U are referring to a group of hardcore addicts, while I am referring to all drug users, including recreational, in my original post.

Second off, there is no proof that addicts would cost less money in medical bills if they lived longer. If they lived longer, they would likely die of other more costly diseases such as cancer or stroke. Plus most people in america cost society through being obese and having obesity induced diseases.

Also it can be easily argued that we would save money as a society treating addicts medically instead of imposing prison terms.

Edited by Crystal G (03/28/12 07:51 PM)

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Re: The Drug User's Manifesto (as the last hated subculture on earth) [Re: qman]
    #16010649 - 03/28/12 08:10 PM (12 years, 3 days ago)

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The fact of the matter is, drugs ruin many people lives, most drug users make terrible employees, and are very irresponsible for even taking care of themselves.




this is a false claim.

the way in which drugs ruin most lives is by their entrapment in the legal system. yes, drugs can and do cause deaths but this number is small in comparison to how many are disenfranchised from drug prohibition.

moreover, the quality of an employee is determined by their ability to show up to work in a punctual manner and perform the tasks of their job. in the instance of each individual bad employee there are, in all likelihood, many factors that cumulatively contribute to the behavior patterns that cause them to be bad employees. indeed drugs can be one of these factors, but again, the sheer number of drug users on the planet seems to suggest that drug use alone does not automatically make an individual a bad employee. therefore most drug users are good employees.

we can follow this path i've established and move on to examine drug users' ability to "take care of themselves". if most drug users are good employees, then they are able to hold jobs. holding a job is integral in someone being able to maintain their self sufficiency. if most drug users are self sufficient in this capacity, then we cannot automatically attribute drugs as a sole factor in one's inability to manage their life productively.


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Re: The Drug User's Manifesto (as the last hated subculture on earth) [Re: Crystal G]
    #16010757 - 03/28/12 08:30 PM (12 years, 3 days ago)

holy fuck, you're alive!


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Re: The Drug User's Manifesto (as the last hated subculture on earth) [Re: millzy]
    #16011002 - 03/28/12 09:17 PM (12 years, 3 days ago)

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The fact of the matter is, drugs ruin many people lives, most drug users make terrible employees, and are very irresponsible for even taking care of themselves.




this is a false claim.

the way in which drugs ruin most lives is by their entrapment in the legal system. yes, drugs can and do cause deaths but this number is small in comparison to how many are disenfranchised from drug prohibition.

moreover, the quality of an employee is determined by their ability to show up to work in a punctual manner and perform the tasks of their job. in the instance of each individual bad employee there are, in all likelihood, many factors that cumulatively contribute to the behavior patterns that cause them to be bad employees. indeed drugs can be one of these factors, but again, the sheer number of drug users on the planet seems to suggest that drug use alone does not automatically make an individual a bad employee. therefore most drug users are good employees.

we can follow this path i've established and move on to examine drug users' ability to "take care of themselves". if most drug users are good employees, then they are able to hold jobs. holding a job is integral in someone being able to maintain their self sufficiency. if most drug users are self sufficient in this capacity, then we cannot automatically attribute drugs as a sole factor in one's inability to manage their life productively.





You make some strong points for sure, I guess the point I am trying to make is the difference between drug use and drug addicts. I am also sure there are drug addicts that function in the work force as well, but we are talking about in general terms or percentage wise.

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