Enjoy this satirical sendup of America's laughable attitude toward drugs. (Click the audio link above!)
MOTHER: Where are you off to so fast, sweetie?
SON: There's a Dare rally at the Capitol. I'm going down there to just say no to drugs.
MOTHER: Did you remember to take your meds?
SON: Yes, Mom. I popped the whole batch of them on my way through the kitchen.
MOTHER: Careful, dear. You're going to spill that Red Bull you're holding.
SON: Oh, I almost forgot. I was hoping to pick up some bush beer for Dad's upcoming party on my way back. Can you spot me a 20?
Americans claim to hate drugs, and yet 1 in 4 American women are dependent on Big Pharma drugs for life, and we consider them to be good patients!
MOTHER: Only if you'll pick up a box of Virginia Slims for me.
SON: In that case, you better give me your credit card. I don't think it's safe for me to carry all that money around at night.
MOTHER: Here you are, you dope.
SON: Dope? Dope? I just say no to dope, remember?
MOTHER: Touché. Oh, and congratulations, Joey.
SON: For what, Mom?
MOTHER: I heard you passed your urine test to work at the local ABC store.
SON: What can I say? Jesus himself could not have had more impeccable urine than yours truly.
MOTHER: I'm proud of you, Joey.
SON: Oh, stop it, Mom.
MOTHER: Now, have a good time at the Dare rally.
SON: I just hope I don't run into Derek.
MOTHER: Why don't you want to see Derek? I thought he was your best drug-free friend.
SON: He is, but...
MOTHER: What?
SON: He and I had a falling out about American drug policy.
MOTHER: Really? What happened?
SON: Well, he agrees with Los Angeles Police Chief Darryl Gates that drug users should be taken out and shot.
MOTHER: Sounds like a reasonable point of view to me.
SON: Whereas I think William Bennett had the right idea when he said that drug users should be beheaded instead.
MOTHER: Well now, I think that's a topic upon which reasonable people can disagree.
SON: I'm off.
MOTHER: Oh, and we're all out of coffee. And Tylenol now that I think of it.
SON: Mom.
MOTHER: Oh, and if the pharmacy is still open, your sister needs her pills for depression, anxiety, and ADHD.
SON: I tell you what, Mom. Why don't I just bring back the entire store?
MOTHER: Don't be such a dope.
SON: Dope? Dope.
MOTHER: I know, I know. You don't do dope.
Ten Tweets
against the hateful war on US
The whole drug war is based on the anti-American idea that the way to avoid problems is to lie and prevaricate and persuade people not to ask questions.
We should not be talking about the potential harm of drugs -- we should be talking about the well-established harm of drug PROHIBITION.
71% of the depressed have relapses after getting off their meds. Doctors blame this on depression, but increasing evidence suggests that these people are having withdrawal problems.
These are just simple psychological truths that drug war ideology is designed to hide from sight. Doctors tell us that "drugs" are only useful when created by Big Pharma, chosen by doctors, and authorized by folks who have spent thousands on medical school. (Lies, lies, lies.)
The FDA approves of shock therapy and the psychiatric pill mill, but they cannot see the benefits in MDMA, a drug that brought peace, love and understanding to the dance floor in 1990s Britain.
Even if the FDA approved MDMA today, it would only be available for folks specifically pronounced to have PTSD by materialist doctors, as if all other emotional issues are different problems and have to be studied separately. That's just ideological foot-dragging.
There's a run of addiction movies out there, like "Craving!" wherein they actually personify addiction as a screaming skeleton. Funny, drug warriors never call for a Manhattan Project to end addiction. Addiction is their golden goose.
America arrests people whose only crime is that they are trying to be all that they can be in life... in such a way that psychiatrists are not getting THEIR cut.
Freud's real discovery was that drugs like cocaine could make psychiatry UNNECESSARY for the vast majority of people. The medical establishment hated the idea -- so they judged the drug based on its worst possible use!
The "acceptable risk" for psychoactive drugs can only be decided by the user, based on what they prioritize in life. Science just assumes that all users should want to live forever, self-fulfilled or not.
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