I’m not against drink. I’m not against drugs either. But I am against the distinction between legal and illegal, safe and unsafe, when it clouds the real message: that addictive substance abuse is addictive substance abuse, whether it’s legal or illegal, or even if, in the case of Michael Jackson among many others, a doctor is prescribing it.
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