Should We Consider Drug Addicts as Losers? Why do we then?

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While I advocate the legalization, I do not advocate the use of psychoactive drugs for escapist reasons. I do not agree with the people who use very addictive drugs for partying purposes and then utilize them chronically to acheive a "high", which is a waste of man's ultimate ability, his reasoning faculties (do not attempt to argue that some drugs open creative centers in the brain or some other unsupportable garbage).

But what's the end goal for using our reasoning faculties? To design a tire with better tread? A microprocessor that's twice as fast?