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I feel very strongly about this.
It is a very personal gut-level thing.
I lost both of my older brothers to drug abuse.
As a kid I felt the peer pressure to smoke, and do drugs and alcohol.
Of course there was an appeal of being accepted by the cool and in crowd.
I have no idea how/where I got the resolve to stay away since our parents were bad parents and my dad an wife/kid-beating alcoholic.
I wasn't cool.
My brothers were.
Now they're gone ... too young.
Sure, illegal drug users vary.
Some can handle drugs responsibly ... but then there's the fact that they are breaking the law.
I also respect obeying the law.
But quite a few drug users are not as powerful as the drugs and lives are ruined, or worse.
Don't like a law?
Work to change it, but obey it while it is a law.
People don't get to vary on everything.
Drug dealer action figures for sale in toy stores?
My worst nightmare.
What is almost as alarming is viewers of the show sort of 'forgive' this guy's manufacturer and sale of meth (a particularly destructive drug), because writers, directors and actors have produced such a compelling sympathetic back story for this character.
Where in the hell is this country going.
Like cigarette packaging this show should be required to show those before and after meth user pics.
It is a very personal gut-level thing.
I lost both of my older brothers to drug abuse.
As a kid I felt the peer pressure to smoke, and do drugs and alcohol.
Of course there was an appeal of being accepted by the cool and in crowd.
I have no idea how/where I got the resolve to stay away since our parents were bad parents and my dad an wife/kid-beating alcoholic.
I wasn't cool.
My brothers were.
Now they're gone ... too young.
Sure, illegal drug users vary.
Some can handle drugs responsibly ... but then there's the fact that they are breaking the law.
I also respect obeying the law.
But quite a few drug users are not as powerful as the drugs and lives are ruined, or worse.
Don't like a law?
Work to change it, but obey it while it is a law.
People don't get to vary on everything.
Drug dealer action figures for sale in toy stores?
My worst nightmare.
What is almost as alarming is viewers of the show sort of 'forgive' this guy's manufacturer and sale of meth (a particularly destructive drug), because writers, directors and actors have produced such a compelling sympathetic back story for this character.
Where in the hell is this country going.
Like cigarette packaging this show should be required to show those before and after meth user pics.