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it’s the narrative pushed by the government, and most people are insufficiently wary of the stories they are told by the powers that be. if people abuse drugs because of a history of generational and personal trauma at the hands of racist, capitalist, i and imperialist forces, then the obvious answer is to counter those forces. if people abuse drugs because they’re just bad people who make bad decisions as part of an immutable personal failing, it is far easier to justify criminalizing drug use, imprisoning drug users, and using them as slave labor to fuel the machine. at least, that’s definitely what’s going on in the US.