Isidoro I agree that we are ultimately responsible for our own actions.
The reality with heroin is that it is usually introduced to younger people when they are at a very impressionable age..peer group pressure etc..
Now I just happen to know a bit about pharmacology, and I am involved in assisting heroin addicts, so I do speak with some experience and authority. The scene is that the pushers & the big boys only have to get people started & in most cases, with a few "hits" they are hooked. The pushers then have a guaranteed market as their victims must have it at any price.
The victims lives over time are destroyed as their only concern and their very existance is concentrated on nothing else but their next fix. Such is the power of the addiction they will do anything, beg, borrow, cheat, lie, steal, start "dealing" themselves, become prostitutes..anything.. to get the cash to buy the next fix they must have.
So people who start out as decent young adults finish up as criminals & undesirables.
Then as I have mentioned before there is the effect of the actions on their friends , families and also the victims of their crimes.
A terrible chain of events.
I might be a bit simplistic here but if the drugs were not available, or less readily availabe this overall problem would involve fewer victims.
So my stand is very clear & uenequivical. Drug dealers are the beginning of this chain, and the consequenses of their actions are so serious that we cannot deal with them too harshly.
