I'm just kind of curious what makes people buy drugs or even use them.
Have you ever drunk an ice-cold beer on a hot summers day?
Can you recall that warm and satisfying feeling you felt?
Did you feel a little more relaxed in yourself?
Is this a serious question? Why do people use drugs?
People use drugs because they make you feel good - full stop. People with insecurities, people with medical conditions, people who've suffered childhood abuse, people who just like to get out of their faces at the weekend. There are many reasons people use drugs but the most common one is that they target pleasure receptors in the brain and release all sorts of chemicals such as serotonin, dopamine, adrenaline etc etc etc.
They make you feel good.
Ask your ancestors why they lit fires, told stories, sang, danced, played drums, ate fermented fruits, scored poppies, burnt hemp, chewed tobacco, consumed mushrooms.
If you take it back all the way to the dawn of modern human civilization - across most cultures there is a strong trajectory of ritualized drug use around important dates / seasons / cultural events.
Drugs were for nobles, shamans, shape-shifters, forest people, warriors, fighters, priests, kings.
Food and water are drugs - try not eating for a few days and honestly tell me your body doesn't crave.