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USA ♥ Drugs
Pretending supply is the problem makes everything much worse for everyone
The USA is the most over-medicated society in history, with a typical US citizen aged forty-five now taking four prescription medications per day, and the average person having over seventeen different prescription medications every year. Added to this number is the twenty-seven billion dollars spent annually on over-the-counter medications such as NSAIDs, antacids, and a wide range of other drugs.
This state of affairs exists because 86% of US citizens are overweight, have appalling diets, and take no meaningful exercise. This results in a wide range of chronic ailments, all of which are due to atrocious lifestyle choices and which cost the US healthcare system nearly one trillion dollars per year of unnecessary spending.
But this is actually relatively harmless compared to the damage done by the our insatiable appetite for illegal drugs. Whereas we harm mostly ourselves though our terrible lifestyle choices, our drug habit also harms tens of millions beyond our borders. And while we wheeze and waddle our way through life, millions of less fortunate adults and children are subject to daily terror, beatings, rape, and murder.
When there’s a strong demand for something that is illegal, supply will be provided by those who are comfortable operating outside of the law. The…
