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speedpunk posted...

This was years ago. No lasting effects.

Plenty of people use drugs and go on living just fine. We make a big deal when drug use goes wrong but we don't think about the countless people that do drugs and are fine, which likely outnumber these unfortunate incidents.

Which is really one of the reasons (controlled) legalization is a good thing: When the only drug users you hear about are addicts that overdose, that creates an inflated sense of risk that scares some people away, but also causes others to underestimate the real risk because they can dismiss it as selection bias and therefore just kind of make up what they want to believe about the risk. If usage is legal and doesn't have to be hidden (and especially if it happens in supervised consumption sites that help to regulate dosage and otherwise reduce harm), you can get a clear picture of what the risk actually is and make an informed decision about whether or not you want to take it. That's a lot better than having to guess one way or the other.

Of course, Covid demonstrated just how bad people are at risk analysis even with clear data available, so it's hard to say how much that would actually help. Still, I'd rather see people make poor choices because they suck at risk analysis than because they don't have the data available to analyze the risks.