I’ve been using heroin for over a decade to treat chronic pain and depression, I did not start out on prescribed opiates because I went straight for heroin. I use heroin about once or twice a month and it has not stopped me from holding down a job or paying rent, in fact it enables me to do so. Now do you people believe I have the right to do heroin or do you think I should not be allowed to take this drug which for all intents and purposes saved my life? I kinda wince at China’s drug policy because of how brutal it is, I always believed the state should have a monopoly on all drugs and they should be prescribed freely, it would get rid of the dealers and cartels and impurities. I think anyone should be allowed to try heroin and that the main problem is its distribution than the drug itself. Anyways let me hear it, I’m about to shoot up anyways.
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