What drug has been most responsible for America’s Problems?

Alcohol noticeably missing here.

The non-legal drugs are less responsible for dystopian U.S. than their criminalization, which results in gang turf wars, impure and contaminated product, unknown dosage, crimes intended to make money to buy overpriced drugs, and stigmatization/legal repercussions that dissuade users and addicts from getting help. Drug decriminalization and being able to purchase pure FDA-controlled portions at legal dispensaries would reduce the harm caused by drugs immensely, but that will never happen in our lifetimes because Trump (and every Republican president since Nixon, and some Democratic ones too) needs drug overdoses to help scapegoat Mexicans, Chinese, and "inner-city criminals" (read: scary Black people). Remember how Trump urged Republicans not to pass the bipartisan border bill because that would take away a major campaign issue he needs for fearmongering? Same thing with the "war on drugs". The last thing he wants is nobody dying from drug overdoses.

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capitalism mannnn

but actually prob testosterone

mannnn

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The adrenaline rush of righteous indignation?

Didn't an attempt at decriminalization fail in Oregon? What happened? Just bad timing, with covid and fentanyl spike?

Social media

Other: toss up between heroin, alcohol and tobacco

Write-in vote for money

It started going downhill with Pokémon Go

funko pops

Do erections count as a drug?

theyre a dick thing

Second vote for capitalism...

leaded gasoline

Whatever drugs people have been dying of most--Fentanyl or Oxy--definitely adds to the feeling of doom and pointlessness.

Fentanyl has also lead to cops cosplaying elaborate death scenes any time someone in a 50 mile radius puts some into the air

Do erections count as a drug?

a subset of Viagra

some say religion is like a drug

Third vote for capitalism

I remember a couple few years ago seeing a Big Pharma print ad for some drug that would help you poop if you were all strung out and constipated on opiates.. like, let's not address the actual cause of your pain, but prescribe yet another drug to offset the effects of drug #1

iirc there was a super bowl ad for that one.

FanDuel

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Definitely capital

Celestial Seasonings Sleepytime is the cure

fent

fuckin fent

fent is why you can't get any of the good drugs anymore, because everything's cut with fent

drugs ruin lives, but fent doesn't just stop there, fent also had to go and ruin _drugs_

Where is television

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tom verlaine died

Celestial Seasonings Sleepytime is the cure

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if i was changing dns still i'd be "Celestial Seasonings Sleepytime Gorilla Museum"

capitalism mannnn

but actually prob testosterone

mannnn

― tuah dé danann (darraghmac)

that's transphobic

actually no wait, i'm gonna roll with it

estrogen and testosterone

it's ruining america's moral fiber, it's turning our young boys into waifus and our young women into either victorian gentlemen and/or pirates

oh, for the days when being a my little pony fan made you a fascist "brony" instead of hot communist furry trash

points to me

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Other.

Othering will be the death of us all...