Al, you're not the meany. The drugs, legal or illegal, and the booze, and the pushers are the meanies. I abhor drug addiction, not drug addicts, I feel for them. But for some good luck and exceptionally good friends, there might I have gone.
Sometimes life is just too much for some of us, and booze and drugs (yes, tobacco too, which I literally hate) are easy escapes.
About one third of my patients die from the addiction to tobacco, the real evil weed. It should be eradicated.
Sorry, thread highjacked.....