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"People against drugs are for slavery" [GeronL said in proper Irony.]

Yes. Such drugs are tools of slavery.

I'll recount working with a gentleman from Jamaica (about 60 years old) a few years ago. We were digging under a house with pickaxes, because the resident wanted a basement after all.

Contrary to stereotype, the Jamaican did not get stoned. While we were working cheap, he told me, "This is slavery, mon...slavery." We dug for several days at an elevation likely over 10,000 feet, and at his age and mine (close behind his age), we were still alive and getting healthier.

Straight and sober folks can work and study their way out of slavery, though. Each person must try.

The son of a corporate boss was there one of those days--yes, the producer and mighty "taxpayer" (well, maybe not a net taxpayer, being government-linked and all). He said that his dad was punishing him for something or other by making him do that kind of work. The young man was very tired, slow, and lasted one day.

It's likely that the young man has either learned to be a better slave since then or is headed in that direction. The moral is that if a blessed one wants to join the addicts in real slavery, he will get high. The pusher (now the State) owns his victims 24/7, and addicts don't work their way out of slavery.