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Swapping vaping for smoking sounds like an Onion headline, but it’s a desperate, rational escape. The real addiction isn’t to nicotine; it’s to the frictionless, infinite consumption that vapes provide. Cigarettes are easier to quit because they force you to stop. Fix the friction, and you fix the habit.
Progressive cities excel at building utopias—until it comes to drug policy. By embracing harm reduction without the necessary guardrails of enforcement and mandatory treatment, well-meaning policymakers aren’t saving lives; they are subsidizing addiction. It’s time to stop confusing tolerance with treatment and demand pragmatic accountability over ideological purity.
The Trump administration is blocking federal funds for fentanyl test strips—the cheapest, most effective overdose prevention tool—because they’d rather signal moral purity than save lives. This isn’t about cost; it’s about choosing ideology over evidence, and it will cost thousands of lives.