Like with most drugs, the drug itself isn’t the problem, it’s the circumstances that surround it that cause the problems.
Most street drugs are cut with something because it means the dealers make more money and because of course the whole thing is completely unregulated. That means people don’t have a clue what **** they are ingesting, smoking, injecting etc.
Then there is the fact that with serious drug use, usually comes an element of crime either petty theft, robbery or more serious assault. To fund the habit. Also drug dealing often goes hand in hand with other crimes along the same lines.
Then there is the social deprivation aspect. Poverty, poor housing, poor parenting, unemployment, poor prospects etc. Lots of poor people end up in debt and drink and drugs is a temporary escape.
I know I’m making generalisations here, but I’ve seen it all first hand and used to deal with the sharp end of the stick in the NHS, with people who were caught up in a life of poverty, crime and drugs.
As has been mentioned already. The best thing to do is to decriminalise all drugs. License and regulate cannabis like they do with alcohol and set up treatment referral programmes for herion, barbiturate and their derivatives
