Not a subject I every bother putting time into, thinking about, but for the sake of some armchair brainstorming this Sunday after the 49ers made Jacksonville look like that game against Dallas. Will take a stab for the mental exercise. Afterward, you all can elect me Emperor of the Universe!
With drugs that effect we Earth monkey nervous systems pleasantly, our society must decide where to draw lines between freedom to enjoy and have fun and whatever causing levels of negative effects that need to be increasingly throttled back from openness. In the future, a person will be able to online order and pay for digitally any food, drink, medicine, or legal drug online and have whatever delivered to one's residence within a short amount of time.
It is an absolute fact, that many people have rather boring lives that taking a drug that makes one feel enjoyment goes a long ways towards something easy a fridge away to look forward to week to week, not giving up. Would make our ancestors on a hot day 1000 years ago drool with envy. That has always been part of the alcohol world and in this news science telecom era, medicines, and drugs have been added to the old mix whether one approves or not. Sorry you frustrated with a cork in your hands, historic reality is in this modern telecom science era, the genie on trivial feel goods to modern life escaped a long time ago.
It is also very true now in 2023 unlike say 1980, that a whole lot of those considered successful people including authorities, are also enjoying life more with some drug use wisely below the media radar, because that can be part of what being in a happy and successful lifestyle oprn minded community of others often is. Consider the wine and coffee drinking worlds. Or just the corner pub drinking communities across European nations and cultures.
But in that more extreme scenario per the thread OP, we don't want to end up with a society full of large percentages of people that chose on their own, a zombie-like junkie life without really trying out or been given a chance, who then are just an inefficient draw on everyone else that ought be mitigated.
Given my own "Let It Be" attitudes, since the world and society conditions have already contributed to that junky world, they ought just let those folks alone for the rest of their lives as long as long as they quietly stay to themselves mostly out of the way of the rest of us, out of sight, out of sound, whatever. Let society with oversight, figure that out. And that includes on our city streets and about entertainment districts. Addicts that except that lifestyle and want to run with the rest of us,I'm sorry, instead need to back off away from the rest of us. Those that choose to do so in our face can go to an island.
On the other hand we can allow anyone to consume drinks with caffeine (ie coffee) and theobromine (ie chocolate) without worrying about negative consequences because such has a long modern history that has worked out well providing much early morning Monday pleasure to what otherwise seemed hopeless at 6am.. With over the counter medicines we provide warnings on packaging and media. With weed in legal states, there is another level of inhibition starting with age just as with alcohol plus community buy-ins or not..
For junkies, we could provide some remote reasonably pleasant place without modern weapons, like an island where input output would be carefully police controlled and require pre-exit blood tests for drugs. With limited oversight, we would let the junkies set up there own security, government, and law. Heck if they wanted legal gambling and prostitution, we'd let them run with it. But no outside visitors looking for entertainment. If they get out of hand, the international community via the UN would step in strongly. For those wanting to go back to society with the rest of us, they would need to be sober XXX days as set up by consensus.
