Do you feel that drug pushers are in any way responsible for drug use by society, or is the responsibility solely with the users?

It lies in the user, hands down. No one forced them to buy the drugs, no one forced them to take the drugs. It’s the user’s fault. Yes the pushers are to blame, but for different reasons; like selling to KIDS who don’t know any better!!

Pushers? I’m not sure there are many pushers around these days, just dealers. Drugs are easy enough to sell without pushing them.

Drugs themselves are not the problem, it’s addiction that’s the problem, and the addiction is not the fault of the dealers.

This works in all situations. I could blame car salesmen for being too pushy and making me buy a car, but when it comes down to it, I still went to the dealership. I used to smoke weed in high school, I’ve done E and cocaine a few times, but I stopped of my own accord. No one made me do it except myself.

The converse of your last statement is also true: The drug dealer wouldn’t have a job if it wasn’t for drug users. A demand exists and they supply the goods. Both contribute.

dealers may be guilty of a lot of things and they certainly prey upon and contribute to the problem but they aren’t forcing you buy, that’s your choice and therefore your responsibility.

I lean towards blaming the user. The twist is when pushers are preying on very young children. I don’t know how often that is the case?

Unless dealers are selling to children or young people, the problem lies with the users and the users alone.

as an ex user, I know they wouldn’t sell to you unless you had the money, and I can remember having to really work at getting one to come over, meet me, all that shit. it’s on the user.

Drug dealers are never reliable—always making you wait.

If it was not for people who experiment with drugs there would be no drug dealers.People have two choices in life.Firstly they should have the will power to say NO to the drug pusher, and their own friends who are already hooked on drugs.

Their second choice is to start taking drugs,and not to blame anyone but themselves when they have destroyed their own bodies by taking illegal substances.

The pushers always start them on mild drugs to get them addicted.Then they give them harder drugs which cost much more.People who take drugs in the end cannot earn enough to pay for the drugs to satisfy their craving.The only alternative is to turn to crime and steal the money they need to satisfy their addiction.
The only alternative left to them is to turn to crime and steal the money they need to satisfy their addiction.It all ends the same way,and quite often in a premature death.

I feel it is with the users. If the users didn’t want drugs, there wouldn’t be such a high demand and the dealers would have to find something else to make money

The person who started doing drugs never had to start doing them. People have tried to get me to do drugs, too, and I have no problem turning them down. Then again, I’m not as easily influenced as certain other people seem to be when it comes to drugs. People who push people into drugs aren’t innocent, either, though. They know what they’re doing, so they bear at least some blame as well.

The importers, major distributors and dealers are criminals whose profit funds many only criminal enterprises including all the international activities of organized crime.

Users continue to built the demand by introducing others to the use of the drugs. They do what pushers used to do!

Users are responsible for choosing to demand and purchase the drugs, That is why possession is a crime as well.

There is plenty of blame to go around.

if they were not dealing, kids could not buy.

Re-hab for the first timers

Federally administrated drugs for the repeat offenders and the pushers.

My daughter was arrested outside a drug lab she was working in.
She took rehab over jail sentence, and I thought it was a dodge, but it worked for her.
She has been clean about 7 years.

Six of one, half a dozen of the other in my opinion. It’s a vicious cycle, if there weren’t dealers/pushers then maybe it wouldn’t be so easy for users to get drugs but if there weren’t users then the delers/pushers would have no reason to sell drugs. I think the blame lies with both.

Users. Government should change the laws and dry up all black markets. Meaning that drug addicts can get free prescriptions from doctors. If methadone doesn’t work, heroin should be prescribed. Drug pushers would lose most of their business.

Drug users are entirely responsible for their drug use.

Drug sellers are entirely responsible for their drug sales.

So I should go along with my tax money going from fighting illegal drug use to providing drugs to addicts??

When hell freezes over.

the user and the government. i blame everything on the government BUT there would be no need for drug pushers if we didn’t make it easy for them.