"First, widespread drug use really didn't exist." Do you imagine that being able to buy opium over the counter (and even from the Sears Roebuck catalog!) made its use *less* common? It also hurts your thesis that its easier to be a functional alcoholic than a functional user of other drugs. People were using them nonstop and with almost …
Do you imagine that being able to buy opium over the counter (and even from the Sears Roebuck catalog!) made its use *less* common? It also hurts your thesis that its easier to be a functional alcoholic than a functional user of other drugs. People were using them nonstop and with almost no control.
Back to the Sears catalog, though; you could buy a house from Sears Roebuck. They would sell and deliver everything you needed to build the house. It arrives, and you and your family either build it, or have a contractor do it. You'd just put it up. They were all over. Meanwhile, we wanted to build my mom an accessory dwelling unit on our property so that she has a retirement home. We were looking at over $10,000 in work just to get the permitting in order to know we can do it, with *zero* guarantee that we'll be able to build at the end of it. On an acre of land. You can fix all the other problems you bring up, but if it costs a fortune to meet demand, all the people freed from all the other social issues are just going to be dumped into a game of musical chairs where there's no possible way for everyone to win.
"First, widespread drug use really didn't exist."
Do you imagine that being able to buy opium over the counter (and even from the Sears Roebuck catalog!) made its use *less* common? It also hurts your thesis that its easier to be a functional alcoholic than a functional user of other drugs. People were using them nonstop and with almost no control.
Back to the Sears catalog, though; you could buy a house from Sears Roebuck. They would sell and deliver everything you needed to build the house. It arrives, and you and your family either build it, or have a contractor do it. You'd just put it up. They were all over. Meanwhile, we wanted to build my mom an accessory dwelling unit on our property so that she has a retirement home. We were looking at over $10,000 in work just to get the permitting in order to know we can do it, with *zero* guarantee that we'll be able to build at the end of it. On an acre of land. You can fix all the other problems you bring up, but if it costs a fortune to meet demand, all the people freed from all the other social issues are just going to be dumped into a game of musical chairs where there's no possible way for everyone to win.