Drugs: beyond Good and Evil...
Howdy!
Let me begin by saying: "Damn those Red Wings!!" With all of the perpetually depressing attention targeted at the Motor City, Detroit needs all of the positive spin it can scrounge up, even if it is via professional sports; oh well, there's still hope for the Pistons...
I'm willing to bet that every one of you who is reading this (all two or three of you...) has some degree of prejudice influencing your perceptions of drugs. When I even mention the term "drugs," some of you may cringe, some may "whoop," and others may think "well, what kind?" That's just my point.
Attitudes have been groomed by a conflicting mix of information regarding the Social Acceptability and Impact of drugs. Today, I'm interested in exploring the nature of your attitudes towards drugs.
He said, she said....
Pharmaceutical Companies love drugs because they love money! Churches frown upon drugs because they're competition to the greatest drug of all: religion! The government decides what drugs are legal & illegal depending upon the number of votes and contributions of the aforementioned two groups!
In America, there's always three sides of the coin; two sides to oppose each other, and a third to profit from the struggle (can you guess which side the government plays for?)
Medicine
Pharmaceutical companies invest millions in the development of solutions to address the most marketable diseases and conditions so they can in turn market those solutions to both you and your doctor.
If we can make Bob Dole's penis hard, why can't we cure cancer?
Well my dear Watson, the solution is simple: cancer doesn't pay as much as a bunch of horny rich old men (that, and cancer is a bit more complicated... see, I'm a fair journalist...) Either way, I hate to break it to you, but the majority of medicinal drugs have the purpose of treating symptoms, NOT fixing the problems themselves.
Recreation.. NO RVs please...
People like to feel good. Nobody likes to feel bad; well, except for artists, and that's usually for purposes of creativity... People enjoy interacting with other people and having a nice buzz to boot; particularly if they don't really care for the people they're interacting with. Alcohol (legal) is the most prevalent social drug in the USA, immediately followed by marijuana (illegal). I'm not going to bother to try and cover the science that supports the fact that marijuana is less damaging to the human body than alcohol; if you don't believe me, try doing some research instead of listening to your high-school dropout guidance counselor. Noting the differences in legality between the top two drugs used for recreational purposes leads us to the third issue: government policy.
The political side of the coin...
Pharmaceutical companies give garbage trucks of money to lobby policy change in the United States. The stench of cheap wine from the right wing has influenced politicians with votes and spread "scientific" propaganda from monkeys who still debate the probability of evolution and existence of gravity. In turn, this has led to the ironic conflict between promoting "medicinal drugs" while waging a "war on drugs." America seems to have a knack for hypocrisy and ridiculous wars that can never be won.
My questions for you monkeys:
Should drug policy be based on practical analyses of the health/social benefits versus detriments associated with a particular drug, instead of dirty money & biased information from pharmaceuticals & collection baskets?
With all the money that the government pisses down the toilet on fighting the "war on drugs," wouldn't it make more sense to legalize and tax non-life-threatening drugs? We tax cigarettes, even though they have killed more people than Al Qaeda...
Is it really a good thing that we have returned erectile power to a bunch of old horny old men? I mean really.... come on.... that just scares the hell out of me above all else...
Do what y'all do and speak your mind...
All right, click the "comments" link below to read the responses of others, as well as share your own responses. "NO" you don't have to be a member of Blogger to put in your $0.02; Just select "Other" for your identity, type in your name, and post your comments... that's it.... it's as easy as avoiding taxes!
Let me begin by saying: "Damn those Red Wings!!" With all of the perpetually depressing attention targeted at the Motor City, Detroit needs all of the positive spin it can scrounge up, even if it is via professional sports; oh well, there's still hope for the Pistons...
I'm willing to bet that every one of you who is reading this (all two or three of you...) has some degree of prejudice influencing your perceptions of drugs. When I even mention the term "drugs," some of you may cringe, some may "whoop," and others may think "well, what kind?" That's just my point.
Attitudes have been groomed by a conflicting mix of information regarding the Social Acceptability and Impact of drugs. Today, I'm interested in exploring the nature of your attitudes towards drugs.
He said, she said....
Pharmaceutical Companies love drugs because they love money! Churches frown upon drugs because they're competition to the greatest drug of all: religion! The government decides what drugs are legal & illegal depending upon the number of votes and contributions of the aforementioned two groups!
In America, there's always three sides of the coin; two sides to oppose each other, and a third to profit from the struggle (can you guess which side the government plays for?)
Medicine
Pharmaceutical companies invest millions in the development of solutions to address the most marketable diseases and conditions so they can in turn market those solutions to both you and your doctor.
If we can make Bob Dole's penis hard, why can't we cure cancer?
Well my dear Watson, the solution is simple: cancer doesn't pay as much as a bunch of horny rich old men (that, and cancer is a bit more complicated... see, I'm a fair journalist...) Either way, I hate to break it to you, but the majority of medicinal drugs have the purpose of treating symptoms, NOT fixing the problems themselves.
Recreation.. NO RVs please...
People like to feel good. Nobody likes to feel bad; well, except for artists, and that's usually for purposes of creativity... People enjoy interacting with other people and having a nice buzz to boot; particularly if they don't really care for the people they're interacting with. Alcohol (legal) is the most prevalent social drug in the USA, immediately followed by marijuana (illegal). I'm not going to bother to try and cover the science that supports the fact that marijuana is less damaging to the human body than alcohol; if you don't believe me, try doing some research instead of listening to your high-school dropout guidance counselor. Noting the differences in legality between the top two drugs used for recreational purposes leads us to the third issue: government policy.
The political side of the coin...
Pharmaceutical companies give garbage trucks of money to lobby policy change in the United States. The stench of cheap wine from the right wing has influenced politicians with votes and spread "scientific" propaganda from monkeys who still debate the probability of evolution and existence of gravity. In turn, this has led to the ironic conflict between promoting "medicinal drugs" while waging a "war on drugs." America seems to have a knack for hypocrisy and ridiculous wars that can never be won.
My questions for you monkeys:
Should drug policy be based on practical analyses of the health/social benefits versus detriments associated with a particular drug, instead of dirty money & biased information from pharmaceuticals & collection baskets?
With all the money that the government pisses down the toilet on fighting the "war on drugs," wouldn't it make more sense to legalize and tax non-life-threatening drugs? We tax cigarettes, even though they have killed more people than Al Qaeda...
Is it really a good thing that we have returned erectile power to a bunch of old horny old men? I mean really.... come on.... that just scares the hell out of me above all else...
Do what y'all do and speak your mind...
All right, click the "comments" link below to read the responses of others, as well as share your own responses. "NO" you don't have to be a member of Blogger to put in your $0.02; Just select "Other" for your identity, type in your name, and post your comments... that's it.... it's as easy as avoiding taxes!
posted by Don the "Head Chimp" at
8:17 AM
2 Comments:
Donald,
the "War on Drugs" isn't so much about keeping drugs illegal as it is keeping people that take them in jails and prisons. It started because the right winged people were scared for their safety and kids and are advocates of crime control. People assume that doing drugs leads to addiction and violence and the collapse of our society. They don't want their kids to get involved with "the wrong crowd" and don't want to have to deal with crackheads being anywhere near them. So, what did they do? Vote to throw them all in jails/prisons where they can't spread it. This has lead to overcrowded prisons and people who really aren't a threat to society being locked up and learning criminal activity, which leads to more criminal activity when they get out. The government has tried to solve the "war on Drugs" failure problem by building more and more prisons and jails and draining more and more tax money from the people because this is both what some of them want AND what society has "voted" on.
Now, in regards to drug policy, I think that most illegla drugs should remain illegal for the sole reason that most people obey the law and it actually does help reduce the abuse of drugs. I don't, however, think that jailing/imprisoning people is the way to deal with most people that DO use illegal drugs and may have just gotten caught once or twice.
With regards to pharmaceutical companies, most of it really is just profit. You can take what you think is asprin, but really some fake tablet that does absollutely nothing, and magically feel better later because you are expecting to. Gotta love the placebo effect.
Now, I know that is not true in all cases, but I do think that pharmaceutical companies spend an unneccassrily ginormous amount of money on "researching" things that they already know the cure to. If there aren't sick people to buy their drugs then they don't have money. But, there will always be new problems people have whether that tingling feeling in their leg that there's some new drug for or insomnia or some new, rare form of cancer of the toe. There will always be a need for drugs and people depend on them because someone that went to 10 years of schooling tells them they need it in order to get better and that's what they trust.
I have to stop rambling cause I could go on for another giant entry about this, but thanks for keeping me occupied for a little bit while I am in MY cube at work : )
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Anonymous, at 12:10 PM
I'm answering out of order.
Sure, cigarettes cause cancer. But they are more addictive than heroin. They are also very, very taxed. Ironically, the government gets money to give to medical research (such as cancer) from cigarettes. The more people quit: the higher the tax. After they are completely outlawed - what are we going to tax, fast food? We should. I think it's a drug, as it isn't particularly "food".
Just like when they said hard liquor wasn't good. Prohibition, in the 1920's, gave way to people making their own gin. And, now alcohol is a legal drug of choice, even though it is far more harmful than cigarettes. (I never saw someone hopped up on nicotine get into a deadly car accident). But a car accident in which a driver was drunk saved my life. I knew personally 6 people who died due to alcohol. Cigarettes, none yet.
Drugs are subjective. You like the kind you like, I like the kind I like - but I bet they are different.
I think we should legalize and tax non-threatenting drugs.
That's it.
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Anonymous, at 2:20 PM
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