Tuesday, October 31, 2006

War on Drugs?

We have in my country what is called a “war on drugs.”
It's a war against people.
It's a war against society.
It's an international war.
It's a war taking place in our own backyards.
We spend a lot of money fighting this war.
A great deal of prisons are needed in this war.
In this war we make deals,
We also make sacrifices.
It's a war of ideas and perceptions.
We make people feel guilty about using drugs.
A lot of drugs are sold on television ads.
We use drugs every day.
We show people the danger of using certain drugs.
People still buy drugs.
Drugs cause problems.
So we fight them.
What are the problems?
Who is the problem?
Supply and demand?
Who wants the Drugs?
Why do they want them?
Who supplies the drugs?
Do they have a choice?
Let's point some fingers.
Do you use drugs?
You are to blame.
If you didn't use drugs,
No one would make money selling them.
I do drugs because I want to escape.
Society makes me want to escape.
Society is the problem.
How do you change society?
By education?
By building more jails?
By punishment?
By guilt?
By pointing fingers?
Through therapy?
Some people who sell drugs are rich.
Most of them are very poor.
Jails hold the poor ones.
The rich ones live in mansions.
It's not right to wage war on the rich

3 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

speaking of, i have to take a drug test in the next two days in order to get a job. hope i pass since i did drugs just the other day.

3:04 AM  
Blogger JC said...

someone may have tampered with my suppositories

12:15 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I'll take a liberty and paraphrase Bill Hicks:-
The US is losing the war on drugs! There are people on drugs, at war with the US, and they are winning. Some smart creative people on that side...

8:53 PM  

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