The raw (and ugly) truth about the war on drugs

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Thursday, September 29, 2005

 

 

The raw (and ugly) truth about the war on drugs

Drugs are bad. Drugs destroy peoples' lives. Didn't you know that

marijuana turns regular everyday people into zombie pot smokers?

That's why we have a war on drugs in America: to protect our children

from potheads.

 

Drugs are bad. Especially marijuana. I learned this the other day when

I visited an elementary school as a guest speaker. The schoolchildren

were well trained in describing the dangers of drugs. On command, they

would spout out any number of statements describing them.

 

But then a funny thing happened. I started asking how many of them

were on drugs. You know, drugs their doctor prescribed. Drugs that

alter brain chemistry to keep them docile, or free of pain, or to

dilate their lungs so they could breathe easier.

 

It turned out that 60% of these schoolchildren were either on drugs at

that very moment, or had been on such drugs within the last twelve

months. Two-thirds of the teachers were on drugs, too. And it's not at

all a stretch to believe that 40% or more of all parents are on drugs.

Mild-altering drugs like antidepressants, no less.

 

A nation of drug addicts

Fact is, we are a nation of drug addicts. We drug ourselves, our

elderly and our children on a daily basis. We do it with prescription

medications, over-the-counter pills, alcohol, caffeine, nicotine...

and we say it's all fine because those drugs are legal.

 

But wait a minute, you say. Those legal drugs are different from

marijuana. They're FDA-approved drugs, prescribed by a doctor. They

have a medical purpose.

 

Oh really? Ritalin has a medical purpose? What medical symptoms does

Ritalin treat, then? What measurable physiological state is addressed

with Ritalin? There are none, of course. Ritalin is an authority drug.

It keeps children in line. It makes teachers feel less stress and

parents feel less guilt. Ritalin is a mind-altering narcotic, and yet

millions of children are on it today. Its purpose is not to help

children, but to make life more convenient for those who manage children.

 

You think statin drugs have a medical purpose? Think again. In

reality, they only have a profit purpose. These drugs were invented to

sell pills that manage disease states in people, not that solve any

real health problem. Don't believe me? Just stop taking your statin

drugs, if you dare, and watch your cholesterol skyrocket. You'll find

out you're a slave to the drug, and no healthier than before.

 

What's the difference between legal and illegal drugs?

So what's the real difference between legal drugs and illegal drugs?

Some people think that only illegal drugs are habit-forming. Yet legal

drugs can be just as addictive as illegal drugs. Just ask anyone who

has tried to quit smoking, go off caffeine, or kick to Oxycontin habit.

 

So is there some other difference between illegal drugs and legal

drugs? People argue that legal drugs are safe. They're FDA-approved!

And yet they fail to recognize that prescription drugs kill more

Americans each year than all the crack, meth, and heroin deaths combined.

 

Okay, then, what about the argument that illegal drugs have no

medicinal purpose, and legal drugs do have a medicinal purpose. What

about that? Wrong again. Medical marijuana is a medically proven

treatment for a variety of conditions, yet marijuana still remains

illegal. Even MDMA (now called " Ecstasy " on the street) was long

considered an effective " experiential drug " that helped severely

traumatized adult patients overcome past pains through improved

clarity. At the same time, tobacco smoke has no medical purpose

whatsoever, yet cigarettes remain perfectly legal.

 

No, the real difference between these two classes of drugs is not

their medical merit, nor their safety. The real difference is

something far more sinister. It gets right down to answering the

question of why DEA agents will raid medical marijuana clinics, yet

stand by doing nothing while Americans smoke themselves to death on

tobacco.

 

Want to know the real answer? I very much doubt you do. Because, like

most Americans, you won't believe it. You've been blinded to the

obvious truth for your whole life, manipulated by the media, and

brainwashed by advertising that has turned you into a

statistically-validated consumer. You'll think, no, this couldn't

possibly be true. The world isn't that unjust, you think. But you're

wrong. (Take the free Gullibility Factor test to find out if you're

really a mind slave or not...)

 

Here's the raw, blunt truth about the war on drugs. Drugs are declared

legal or illegal based primarily on who benefits from their

manufacture, distribution and sale.

 

Corporate and government profits determine the legality

Let me put this another way. You know why cigarettes are still legal?

Consider this: here's a product that admittedly kills people. It has

no health benefit whatsoever. It is a threat to the public health. Yet

why does it remain legal? Because states get a cut of cigarette sales

thanks to the Big Tobacco settlement a few years back. Keeping

cigarettes legal results in desperately-needed revenues for states...

revenues that are almost never spent on anti-smoking campaigns, by the

way.

 

It's a classic racket: tobacco is allowed to remain legal because

powerful institutions get a cut of the action. While people die from

lung cancer, states get financial resuscitation by taking a cut of

every sale. States are trading your health for their revenues.

 

Think I'm being overly cynical? Let's take a look at gambling laws.

Organized gambling is illegal at both the state and federal levels in

this country. Except, of course, when government gets a cut.

Casino-friendly states didn't just make casinos legal for the good of

the public: they legalized gambling in exchange for a cut of the

action. It's a classic, mob-style " protection fee. "

 

If you want to test this theory, launch your own online gambling

website. You'll be shut down almost immediately and charged with

serious crimes. Gambling and organized betting is illegal, didn't you

know? That is, unless the state runs the show, as in state lotteries.

 

It's right in your face, folks: gambling is legal when powerful

corporations or institutions get a piece of the action. It's illegal

when they don't. It has nothing at all to do with morality, or

protecting people, or doing what's right. It's all about money, pure

and simple. Just ask all the corrupt politicians in Missouri who

legalized riverboat gambling a few years back.

 

Getting back to drugs, why do you think alcohol remains a legal drug?

Because states and cities tax it. State governments are addicted to

alcoholics as a source of revenue to fund their voter entitlement

programs that get politicians reelected. Alcohol is a cash machine for

cities and states.

 

Sometimes the exact same chemical is both legal and illegal, depending

on who profits from it. The FDA, for example, banned the Chinese herb

ma huang because it contains ephedra. Yet the exact same chemical

compound remains perfectly legal in over-the-counter drugs like

Sudafed and a variety of cold medicines. Sudafed even gets its name

from ephedra: " pseudo-ephedrine. " So why is ephedrine illegal in

herbs, yet legal in pharmacy drugs manufactured by drug companies? You

already know the answer.

 

With all that in mind, why do you think prescription drugs that kill

people remain legal? Think carefully now...

 

If you guessed, " Because powerful corporations generate billions in

profits selling drugs, and governments get a cut of that via state

sales taxes and corporate income taxes " then BINGO! You win a prize: a

lifetime of free Prozac to keep you happy!

 

Legal drugs generate windfall profits for those in power

Think about it: if prescription drugs were peddled by street dealers

instead of doctors, and if all that revenue changed hands in a

non-taxable, non-corporate structure (i.e. street cash), then you'd be

seeing full-scale law enforcement action against the makers,

distributors and sellers of those drugs. You'd also see endless

headlines about how dangerous they were: " Street painkillers kill

twelve in South Miami! "

 

The sad truth of the matter, though, is that those very same

painkilling drugs killed at least twelve people in South Miami this

very day. But you'll never here about it in the media. Because the

news networks are sponsored by drug companies, of course. (The news is

not designed to inform you, it's designed to shape your reality, to

turn you into a consumer of whatever products the corporations are

peddling this year. Didn't you know?)

 

Every drug that's legal is legal for one simple reason: somebody in a

position of power is keeping it legal because they're getting a cut.

 

Non-patentable drugs are usually outlawed

That's why medical marijuana is illegal: because government doesn't

control its distribution, nor does government receive a financial cut.

You can bet your life that if Big Pharma owned the patents on medical

marijuana and could set monopolistic prices on it, pot would be

perfectly legal to own and smoke. That is, as long as you got it from

a pharmacy where prices and distribution could be controlled.

 

Control is the key here. You think the FDA is discrediting drugs from

Canada in order to protect your health? Get real. The FDA is simply

protecting the monopoly drug market in this country. It's controlling

distribution points in the U.S. in the same way that a crack dealer

assassinates his street corner competition. Eliminate the competition,

and you can set whatever price you want. That's why uninformed U.S.

consumers pay 30,000% markup prices for drugs that can be acquired in

Mexico or Canada for pennies on the dollar.

 

It's not about your health, it's about their wealth

You see, corporate America doesn't really care what you put in your

mouth, up your nose, through your lungs or into your veins, as long as

they get a cut from it. That's the whole prescription drug racket in a

nutshell: it's billions of dollars in annual profits generated from

mind-altering (yet legal) drugs that flat-out kill people. Lots of

people. Like 100,000 Americans a year (or a lot more if you believe

more critical statistics).

 

So if you've ever wondered why Ritalin -- which has no medical purpose

whatsoever -- is perfectly legal, and yet medical marijuana -- which

has a well-proven medical purpose -- is outlawed, now you know the

answer: because Ritalin makes powerful people rich. And marijuana

doesn't. Anybody can grow marijuana. Drug companies don't control the

patents.

 

Why I teach people to be 100% drug free

Now, just for the record, I do not personally use any drugs whatsoever

(recreational, over-the-counter, prescription or otherwise), and in

fact, I teach people to be 100% free of all drugs, including caffeine

and alcohol. I bought into the " just say no to drugs " advice of Nancy

Reagan, and I actually applied it to ALL drugs, not just selective drugs.

 

And as far as I can tell, aside from the Mormons and the Amish, there

are only a small percentage of truly drug-free people living in this

country. Practically everybody I meet is addicted to at least one of

the following: coffee, cigarettes, alcohol, pain meds, prescription

drugs or sugar (which alters brain chemistry in drug-like fashion).

 

At the same time, I'm not at all fooled by this silly " War on Drugs "

charade, which is really nothing more than enforcement of corporate

drug profits at gunpoint. If we had a genuine war on drugs in this

country that really worked to protect the American people we'd send

DEA agents into drug company offices and confiscate all the legalized

but deadly medications being manufactured, distributed and deceptively

sold to unwitting Americans today.

 

Medical marijuana is a threat to both the profits and power of drug

companies, not to mention the credibility of the DEA. Letting grannies

smoke pot in California makes DEA agents look silly. If it were

allowed, it would also undermine the billions of dollars already spent

incarcerating people for " pot crimes. " Basically, it would make the

whole War on Drugs look stupid. Which it most assuredly is, at least

when it comes to marijuana.

 

I can understand taking a tough stance on hard drugs (crack, meth,

heroin, etc.), but arresting cancer patients who smoke joints for pain

control sounds a lot more like oppression than law enforcement to me.

 

So what is the War on Drugs? It's an excuse to control you. It is a

system that keeps the population in a state of constant fear so that

heroic politicians can get elected on empty promises to " keep fighting

the war on drugs! "

 

The DEA is AWOL on most drug issues

Where is this War on Drugs when it comes to Grandma in the nursing

home, who died of a stroke caused by Cox-2 inhibitor drugs? Where is

the War on Drugs when little Johnny schoolboy picks up a rifle and

blows away his classmates because he's on antidepressants and can't

tell the difference between real life and a first-person-shooter video

game? Where is the War on Drugs when 16,500 people each year die,

shitting digested blood until they pass out and die because that daily

dose of aspirin tore a gaping hole in their stomach?

 

The War on Drugs, you see, turns a blind eye to the death and

suffering caused by these drugs. The DEA pretends prescription drugs

don't even exist. No prescription drug death has ever been prevented

by the DEA as far as I know. Yet 100,000 Americans are killed each

year by FDA-approved drugs. The DEA has no interest whatsoever in

protecting Americans from these drugs. Ever wonder why?

 

The DEA is properly named, by the way. It's the Drug Enforcement

Agency. It's enforcing drugs. The right drugs. The legal drugs. The

drugs that make money for drug companies, drug distributors, drug

retailers, cities, states and countries. It's enforcement at gunpoint,

and as long as the money keeps flowing, the drugs will stay perfectly

legal, regardless of who dies.

 

The entire distribution system is well in place: the false and

misleading television advertising, the outright bribery of drug

dealers (doctors), the street corner fulfillment centers (pharmacies),

and the coordinating drug lord running the show (the Fraud and Drug

Administration). It's a brilliant system for manufacturing, promoting,

delivering and selling deadly, addictive drugs to children, adults and

seniors while generating corporate profits and tax revenues for

cities, states and nations.

 

And that's the raw truth about the War on Drugs. You may not like it,

but now, at least, you know why it exists.

 

So I have a common sense question for all the people in this country.

If you support the War on Drugs, then why are you taking so many drugs

yourself? And why are you allowing your children to be drugged?

 

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* The raw (and ugly) truth about the war on drugs

 

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