Chicken or egg question.

[OldWiseGuy]

Science knows perfectly well that the brain falls in love with addictive substances. It’s the mechanics—the exact physiological alteration(s) of what’s going on in an addict’s brain that needs to be better understood.

I don't think we can wait for that. Science is often a roadblock to positive action. We run to science for answers when many solutions are obvious even to a layman.


But to put the chicken/egg question another more direct way concerning drugs; which end of the drug trade is the head and which is the tail? We must cut off the head to be successful. The head is the users/addicts not the cartels. All other parts of the drug trade can be quickly replaced except the users/addicts. Remove them and the whole enterprise collapses.

Even young parents know that you don't take the toys away from a misbehaving child, you take the misbehaving child away from the toys.

Also recall this business axiom: "Nothing happens until something is sold."

 

[Lazarus Short]

The people who lived in South America chewed the leaves of the coca plant for many centuries, and enjoyed its benefits. Then...along came civilized man who reduced the plant to a white powder, and snuffed it up his nose. That is when the troubles began...

Do you see the pattern?

 

[OldWiseGuy]

The people who lived in South America chewed the leaves of the coca plant for many centuries, and enjoyed its benefits. Then...along came civilized man who reduced the plant to a white powder, and snuffed it up his nose. That is when the troubles began...

Do you see the pattern?

Oh yeah.