Drug WarRant

Saturday, November 29, 2003

I Don't Want to Wake Up in the Middle of the Night Worrying Anymore. (I actually wrote this for my own blog, but I am going to donate it here, coz it's a better place.) Glutter Socio-Political Rants: The Drug Issue I just woke up in the middle of the night. It's 4 something blah blah am. I had a dream I was on the phone with a dear dear friend who is a meth addict, and that in one hand I was holding a little girl and on the other telling him to please stay away from me until he gets clean. But at 4am I just want to ask, why don't they just legalize the stuff and use the tax money to build rehabs, plug it back in educational campaigns and community centers and help all those people who are in trouble and their families? My friend has two little girls. One who is 11 and the other who is 7. They don't have a daddy. Not a real one. And he hates himself and the world because he feels his children were taken away from him. He will cry while he cooks thinking of the times when he was able to do this for his little girls. Those girls will grow up knowing their father is an addict and his parents knowing their two sons are addicts and wonder what they did wrong. I don't know if they did anything wrong. This guy is brilliant, his brother even more. You know that your Air Nikes now have greenhouse-safe gas in them? Yeah. Partly thanks to the world's favorite villain: a drug addict. Maybe they were just self medicating, whatever bio-chemistry imbalance they were born with and it got out of hand. Maybe they were weak, maybe they made some stupid mistake. Aren't we allowed those? I just know they are in trouble and they are more likely to end up in jail than rehab. Seems wrong to me. I have no moral problems with drugs but I have issues with the fact it's not legal. We can build guns, bombs, and start wars and be rich, Presidents, Prime Ministers or whatever, but if you grow a little pot in the basement you can be incarcerated. It makes me know that at the end of the day, the system is bunk. I don't believe in it. Call me a radical, which is my favorite new word, coz it sounds so sixties. Call me an idealist. Call me mad. Whatever. I just know it doesn't work as it is because if it did, the world would not have a drug problem. I think I am just practical. See a problem admit the way it used to be was wrong. Sorry to all those people who invested a career or a religion or a belief that didn't work out. Grow up. It happens, deal with it. Coz right now the governments and the people keep wasting tax money building prisons and knocking its head against a wall. Time to re-conceive real solutions to problems. If it means trying new ways to do things. I am all for it. If it fails. Whoo Hoo, we are back where we started. He and others suffer -like as if they aren't already. I am back into bed. I prefer if I didn't have to get up and write this at all. But it's the truth. I do it because I have to deal with having bad dreams because of both one person and society's weakness in not willing to make change. - contributed by Yan 9:04:12 PM    comment []

Friday, November 28, 2003

Guest Drug WarRant now in operation After numerous requests to allow/encourage guest rants, this sub-category of Drug WarRant has now been established. Here's your chance to have your say. Fed up with something you've read in the media, but your response just won't fit the 250 word Letter to the Editor format? Upset with something I've written in Drug WarRant, because you feel I went too far, or not far enough? Just want to get something off your chest? Send your submission in to me (see details at left). There will be no attempt to maintain any level of posting in this category, so it will depend entirely on submissions received. - posted by Pete Guither 10:22:29 PM    comment []

The futillity of our half-assed effort at halting drug use in this country NOTE: this e-mail was originally an attemted post on freevibe.com that turned into a rant! I tried to email it to the CIA only to have it rejected because of so called dagerous characters(in the ASCII sense) I kid you not! Since you wouldn't allow me to say above the subject of this message is basically the futillity of our half-assed effort at halting drug use in this country. I must say that I know that the CIA has received secret funding from drug trafficking and I have proof. you people should be ashamed of yourselves! The U.S. government is rapidly losing its credibility, along with it's consent to govern. I love America! It is my homeland. I am sending this email in hopes that I may restore freedom and dignity to a segment of society that has been scapegoated, persecuted, and humiliated, so that others can profit off of their misery.(drug dealers, prisons, police, so-called treatment centers, doctors, lawyers, the media, the list goes on) Hello everyone! let me start by saying that this probably won't make it to the message board. But at least that means someone will read it. If just one person reads this then it is worth it for me to type this. I am 31 years old, college educated and have been smoking marijuana daily for 11 years( I occasionally puffed as a teenager but didn't start smoking daily until about age 20) I have a college degree in a very tecnical and lucrative discipline, Unfortunately I am stuck as an assistant manager at a gas station making $7.65/hour. (all decent jobs seem to have this urine fetish!! although lately I have learned to consider myself lucky for having a job at all!) I am mad now about it now because my first joint sit's on my left next to my keyboard. In fact the only time I do not crave marijuana is when I am snowboarding. this kind of tripped me out because I just learned to snowboard last year and yes I can do it while high, but it seems that the natural rush provided by the new activity makes pot unneccessary. (Unfortunately snowboarding costs more than pot!! and the winter only lasts so long). therefore snowboarding has become my antidrug. My concern is that our young people are being lied to by a government that promotes some drugs (alcohol, tobbacco, prescription meds) and criminilzed the use of others(heroin, cocaine, methamphetamine, LSD, PCP etc.) and uses the enforcement of said laws to implement a racist policy, engages in drug trafficking itself(the gov't), and lies to the American people about it thus perverting our democracy! to get back to my point though(I am so angry!!!) many of us such as myself who are addicted to an illegal drug who may wish to seek help are afraid to do so because we are afraid of getting busted. Decriminilizing use of drugs only works for those of us that are fortunate to have a legitimate source of income that can support our habit.(i.e. the rich) the rest of us must resort to dealing drugs to support our habit. Doesn't anyone else see the problem with this!!! Now little drug addicts are selling drugs to our children to support their habits.(much the same as school children who sold alcohol during prohibition.) making drugs illegal also makes using drugs cool to modern day 'James Dean' types who may use drugs only because they are illegal. In myself I noticed that my use of alcohol went way down after I turned 21. (coincidence? or just growing up, maybe) furthermore the only way to eliminate drugs from our society would be to change the War on Drugs to the Inquisition against drugs) yes the complete suppression of any knowledge of psychoactive subtances. all books must be burned. all information(like this website) destroyed. drug users and dealers executed as well as those who are suspected drug dealers or users.(I personally recommend the time honored tradition of burning at the stake.. It worked in the past!) No half Assed solution will work. the only other possible soultion is to learn to live with drugs and drug users. Drug education programs such as DARE may be well intentioned but are actually counterproductive and can be seen as actually advertisement for the drug industry.(you people are so naive!) well I am suffering the full effects of marijuana withdrawl(as well as caffiene intoxication) so I must go now. Just remember Its your life. Drugs are addictive, and should you choose to use drugs there is a chance that you may become a loser like me. fyi I have done the following illegal drugs in my life..(alcohol under the age of 21, cigarrettes under the age of 18, marijuana, LSD, Psylocibin('shrooms) cocaine (powdered(snorted and injected) and crack)methamphetamine(snorted smoked and injected any orafice will do thank you), opium oxycontin (ask Rush), vicodin, morphine all recreationally without a prescription I might add. I have enjoyed premarital sex (only sex I have ever had since I have never been married) I guess this makes me evil, perverted and persecuted and imprisoned in the so called land of the free. thank you for your time. - somewhat anonymous social degenerate 1:29:56 AM    comment []