Drugs
The curse of our age. The reason why millions of lives have been and are being ruined. I don´t understand why people take them and why they are seen to be “cool”. I´ve recently visited places like Cracolandia in downtown São Paulo and the Tenderloin/Soma district in San Francisco where junkies are literally dying in front of your eyes. These people have lost their self-respect and human dignity – all for a blast of crack that gives them a sensation that lasts a few seconds. While they are the human face of suffering, there is an enormous economic cost.
The Investopaedia site says that Americans buy $150 billion worth of cocaine, heroin, marijuana and meth annually and that the federal government requested $35.1 billion for the National Drug Control Budget for this year. It also highlighted a 2014 report by the London School of Economics called “Ending the Drug Wars.” It said the global strategy of drug prohibition had “produced enormous negative outcomes and collateral damage,” including “mass incarceration in the U.S., highly repressive policies in Asia, vast corruption and political destabilization in Afghanistan and West Africa, immense violence in Latin America, an HIV epidemic in Russia, and an acute global shortage of pain medication,” among other “systematic human right abuses around the world.”
I don´t see anything has changed since then. I´ve never taken drugs even when I was a student. I certainly don´t approve of them but it´s obvious that the current campaigns to combat them have failed. I wonder if it´s time to legalize them or bring their use under control. After all lots of legal drugs are also harmful and addictive.
Nominated by Mr Polly
here’s an interesting article. The inference seems to be that certain organisations from certain parts of this vast nation are trying to promulgate a functioning society of drug users (hmm . . . functioning drug user . . . that is what is known as an ‘oxymoron’, isn’t it?). Just another indication that the world is changing, though, for the better, I’m not so sure.
PS: One of the event organisers said that the atmosphere at one of the demonstrations was ‘infectious’. I’ll fucking bet it was! 😀😀😀
https://www.vice.com/en_uk/article/qj4jdd/protesters-in-vancouver-gave-out-free-cocaine-to-highlight-overdose-crisis
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It warms my heart knowing my Canada is steps ahead of the rest of the world in drug legislation and safety protesting during a deadly wuflu pandemic for free dope but now I want a free vial of cocaine fucking sign me up cunts!
I’d get in on that shame you have to live in BC and live in gutter alley to get it fucking bastards
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Drugs are bad, mmmmkay
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I have done my share of drinking and drugging, although nowadays prefer not to do either. I do not agree with the disease concept. Every drink and drug I have taken is my decision. I certainly do not agree with the idea or specialty “rehabs”, where patients pay vast sums of money (or their insurance companies do) to be weened off their particular indulgence(s). Often these patients return time and again only to be given the same treatment, with the same failure rate. Possibly, they might nod and speak words they presume those working at the facility want to hear. And once they are released many of them head straight to the pub or their friendly neighbourhood dealer. I have watched a small facility near my home rebuild and relocate to a much larger facility. The probably paid for the land, the building and possibly the following decade’s worth of council rates up front.
No, if drinking becomes a problem drink a little less.
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