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Wisconsin judge sides with 11-year-old trans girl over her right to use school toilets
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Every illegal drug, and many legal ones, I've seen used have made the users' lives horrible as a result, and sometimes they've made my life horrible despite me not using them. How about instead of doing drugs you find a real solution to life's problems?
Because you shouldn't use drugs as a solution to your problems? You don't play games or watch TV to solve life's problems. There are some substances that I can agree with that for sure nobody should ever be doing, but other stuff is fine in moderation if proper harm reduction is implemented.
What's to say that they're not finding solutions? You can enjoy altered brain states without necessarily running from things. And even if you are running from something, even the most stoic person needs a numbing agent, a coping mechanism, sometimes and it's a bit critical to judge one's choice, as long as it's not hurting someone else.
Drugs are only a tool. Drugs aren't going to solve your problems in the same way that a hammer isn't going to build a house. It can help, though. And sometimes you smash your thumb or drop the hammer on your foot.