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There’s a particularly nasty drug. It’s very addictive. It ruins lives. People steal from their family members and even resort to prostitution to get it. Eventually, it ruins your health and leaves you a shriveled husk of your former self, if you don’t overdose and die from it first.

In the 80′s, it was cocaine. In the 90′s, it was crack. In the 2000′s, it has been methamphetamine. If you go all the way back to the 30′s, it was marijuana (“Reefer Madness” anyone?). And good old heroin has had a long run as the premier addictive, life-ruining drug, of which we should all be particularly afraid.

Once upon a time, I realized that there was a particular drug that I had a very negative view of, when I had previously used a different drug, about which there was similar negative propaganda. Dear reader, I invite you to examine whether you may be in the same situation. Have you used cocaine or ecstasy without ruining your life? Do you think that users of heroin or meth are probably dirty, addicted drug-fiends? Guess what? Some of them think the same of you, while going on about their surprisingly non-ruined lives.

Once upon a time, I tried a drug that was supposed to be particularly addictive. After the experience was over, I decided it wasn’t for me, and I never did it again.

I’m done with drug prejudice. All drugs have potential for abuse. Some drugs are more prone to abuse than others. Some people are more prone to abuse some drugs than others. But no drug is guaranteed to ruin the life of everyone who uses it, and lots of people regularly use any given drug without becoming addicted or ruining their lives and/or health. And if there’s a drug out there that’s so addictive that one hit will suck me into a downward spiral of addiction and abuse, I haven’t found it yet.

Okay, maybe caffeine.