Why People Use Drugs

Only a person who doesn’t drink caffeine, alcohol, or any other drug (including aspirin and other non psychoactives) can approach making this claim.Hell, you could say the same thing to someone who enjoys a small dessert every night. Or a bath. So long as they’d feel sad to not have it, they are then avoiding a problem, right?Or… humans just really enjoy having diverse things to do, and all find different balances of what those things are. And THC suits very well to certain brain physiolog

You're missing the point of drugs - some people experience intense joy from taking drugs.

It is a drug. It makes you feel good when you use it. Being able to feel good on-demand is very hard thing to resist.

Probably that it feels good. Same reason people do anything addictive.

drugs that make you feel good about spending all day in your ego will do that

Why do anything?People clearly feel that they enjoy the high more than the potential side effects, long term or otherwise.It's the same reason humans consume a great range of drugs.

Because the kind of drug use you're thinking of means addiction to a substance (one that typically numbs you or makes you feel unnaturally happy). Here he's discussing about people improving their condition after a single dose.

Because people like getting high and look for justifications to do so.

I was hoping for a more insightful answer than: because people like to get high.

The user is more likely to turn to a drug or their phone if they find their life unsatisfying but that doesn't alter the fact that the drug/phone can be far more stimulating than any experience they'd encounter 'organically'That's the issue; the real world can only offer up so much so fast. Drugs and the scroll can offer it faster. Expecting people to turn away from that even when it's visibly harming them isn't reasonable; we know for a fact it doesn&#