Excellent points. Are there any mechanisms that could reasonably push back that do not involve starvation and violence? I genuinely hope there are and that we find and use them.

The onslaught never ends, never wanes, and we are just months into this multi year devastation. I cannot feel or connect with anything positive in the news cycle. Fuck.

War on drugs certainly is not the answer to problem. Education & harm reduction, decriminalization, and supply-side testing (re: no accidental fent in your coke) would be a welcomed cultural shift forward. Prohibition will only continue to dig us deeper with folks in prison, murder, and underground trafficking schemes.