Azrayne
Irenicus did nothing wrong
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^ Yeah S2 is one of my favorites as well, I love all the stuff with the Greeks and how it ties into the global drug trade and the futility of fighting on a street level, the collapse of industry, the fact that drugs aren't bound by class/race/suburb/whatever. I felt sorry for Ziggy ultimately, even if he was a pain in the ass, he was just trying to make it out of his shitty place in life but didn't have what it took.
4 > 3 > 2 > 1 >>> 5
Once you take the romanticized lifestyle/social/black market aspects out of it, new addicts become rare because it becomes something sterile and medical instead of rebellious and counter-cultural, and with all of the established addicts are getting their fix from the government, the black market shrinks due to lack of demand, meaning there's not a lot of it going around in underground drug circles for kids to get their hands on and become addicted to.
4 > 3 > 2 > 1 >>> 5
It's a bit more complicated than that, but yeah, they decriminalized possession (aka. you just get a fine and maybe confiscation, no legal consequences, but that's not the same as legalization) and iirc, turn a blind eye (in terms of enforcement) to a lot of the low level dealing even though it's still technically illegal, so they can focus on treatment, harm reduction, going after the big guys, etc. instead. A lot of European countries have similar policies to a lesser or greater degree, right up to places like Switzerland (I think? There are similar programs in a few countries) where registered addicts can just go into a clinic and have a nurse administer a dose of pharmaceutical heroin.
Once you take the romanticized lifestyle/social/black market aspects out of it, new addicts become rare because it becomes something sterile and medical instead of rebellious and counter-cultural, and with all of the established addicts are getting their fix from the government, the black market shrinks due to lack of demand, meaning there's not a lot of it going around in underground drug circles for kids to get their hands on and become addicted to.
