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.
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against the hateful war on US
Imagine a world in which we were told about both the potential benefits AND the potential harms of drugs like cocaine and opium.
So he writes about the mindset of the deeply depressed, reifying the condition as if it were some great "type" inevitably to be encountered in humanity. No. It's the "type" to be found in a post-Christian society that has turned up its scientific nose at psychoactive medicine.
Prohibition is a crime against humanity. It forces us to use shock therapy on the severely depressed since we've outlawed all viable alternatives. It denies medicines that could combat Alzheimer's and/or render it psychologically bearable.
Wade Davis wrote in Rolling Stone that cocaine was outlawed because 400 people consumed toxic doses worldwide. SO WHAT?! 178,000 people die from alcohol every year in America alone.
Rather than protesting prohibition as a crackdown on academic freedom, today's scientists are collaborating with the drug war by promoting shock therapy and SSRIs, thereby profiting from the monopoly that the drug war gives them in selling mind and mood medicine.
I have nothing against science, BTW (altho' I might feel differently after a nuclear war!) I just want scientists to "stay in their lane" and stop pretending to be experts on my own personal mood and consciousness.
In 2017 alone, 1,632,921 drug arrests were made with 85.5 percent of those solely for possession. -- War On Us
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.
I'm told antidepressant withdrawal is fine because it doesn't cause cravings. Why is it better to feel like hell than to have a craving? In any case, cravings are caused by prohibition. A sane world could also end cravings with the help of other drugs.
Just saw a prosecutor gloating about the drug dealers she has taken down.How much is she getting paid to play whack-a-mole?
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