DrChivago
Bluelighter
I was taught if you want something done right- you gotta do it yourself…and if it ain't broke then don't fix it.
Well... Ummm...
Well... Ummm...
The “War On Drugs” is arguably the biggest shit show ever sold to the public, and nothing more than a modern-day crusade of persecution. Most like to think that drugs won. But the real winners are always war profiteers.
And while the CEOs and shareholders keep getting rich off suffering. The same ridiculous laws overpopulate the prisons, send more cash to Mexico and kill millions .Our middle class is now the poverty line, and drug use is at an all-time high. The amount of infrastructure built around the legality of substances is astronomical, and streams of revenue endless. It’s evident. We have become dependent on its criminality.
This is nothing new. In fact, it's the same old song and dance. No dichotomy of good versus evil. Nah, that's romantic. This shit is just plain, assed greed…rich versus poor, brewed with a perfect mix of bullshit propaganda and draconian criminal justice. A battle fought in a vacuum of an economy designed to expand the wealth gap… in a void of jobs, resources, and health. This is the socioeconomic crisis that has given us our modern day class system. Users are slaves at the bottom, moral failures of society and worse than second class citizens. Depicted as homeless or criminal degenerates. Plagued with rampant mental issues, disease and broken moral compasses and unemployable. Sure they've officially accepted OUD and SUD as medical conditions that require treatment, but they sure as hell don't act like it. The negativity Is permanently ingrained in our culture from brainwashed children of the past taught to just say “NO”. And for the record that program was defunct and indicted. We still don't have resources to provide those people the help that they desperately need. Just like the vets came home from Vietnam on smack and Desert storm with PTSD. It's absolutely. sickens me those brave individuals struggle every day with substance abuse problems and housing issues. From the outside looking in, how can our government say they don't need to prioritize shit like this? I mean… that's blatantly obvious just how bad drug policy is.
It all began with the racially questionable Harrison Act of 1940, and initially was designed to associate people of color with illicit drugs. The end goal being to promote and advocate segregation for the Whitey T. Honkertons. Then in 1970, the Nixon Administration repackaged the idea as the Controlled Substance Act. Making sure to include whites with their loud motorcycles and bennies, and hippies with acid. Encompassing in totality, a criminalized drug culture, and demonizing it as the status quo. This was the beginning of the money machine.
It was designed to assign ridiculous criminal penalties to non violent crimes. Single handedly turning the consequence of drugs into strategic means of revenue. It could not only fund itself, but generate funding for infrastructure needed to grow the empirical machine; eventually sending it worldwide. A critical component to this hustle was granting forfeiture and seizure of related property and money. I mean, why not… it worked when stealing the land from the indigenous. Then add in a cash bail bond system for the offenders and or impossible drug court requirements as the only choices… and you can fear monger everyone into convictions. Successfully entering them into a system designed to keeps offenders without resources- shuffling them right back to the bottom of the deck. If for a snowball's chance in Hell, they find a way out momentarily… They’re jacketed with the criminal Scarlett F, so employment is damn near impossible. Which leads them right back to the streets. And what you think is gonna happen? Most of them actually try to go straight but it's hard out there for a pimp. Seriously though, this maze was designed perfectly to keep fucking people's lives up and not give them a chance to get right. It essentially ruins lives and does it in a very quick and ruthless fashion. Then once you have this happen for a few generations, you've got populous of poor raising poor, plagued with illiteracy, crime, and substandard conditions.
This is the model that is uber efficient. Tossing in little bit of shame and neglect from the healthcare system and you might as well call it a death trap. Then, encourage unemployment by government subsidiary handouts and pathetic income cutoffs, and you got the perfect recipe..This is the design that runs like a well-oiled machine, keeping the poor broke and unhealthy. Tangled in a system of financial burdens and on drugs… A crucible of unobtainable goals and unrealistic precedents blanketed under the umbrella of government law. Drug policy was never meant to be incorporated into our constitution or Bill of Rights because it does not parallel the pursuit of happiness. It's not a criminal justice problem. It's a social behavior issue. It's a mental health issue of public nature. But the government just keeps raking in that dough by taxing normal working people trying to simply self-medicate or escape from the bullshit of reality which has been created for them.
The system which so many claim is “broken”, is clearly as such. But to the profiteers benefitting from criminality it is without a doubt fit for business... running just as it was designed. Drugs are not inherently bad, nor are its users. But ignorance is and unfortunately common sense is uncommon. Drugs are rarely the problem as recreation, but rather an option chosen by traumatized as a *solution*. Usually out of desperation and lack of options.. We blindly trusted our schools back when and leaders to teach our youth properly about these subjects and evaded it at home. And what happened? The DARE program. Which was an absolute laughable failure, and a pyramid scheme of dirty money, that had police gaslighting schoolchildren to rat on their parents. We didn't know a damn thing about drugs til the police came in and showed us what they were. And it was proven in studies, that it caused kids to be more curious and do drugs. It was a fuck up of epic proportions. A big “oof” on the police and policy makers.
Then came the over prescribed kids pumped full of amphetamines and Ritalin in the 90s and 00s(which is pharmacologically cocaine in the body when it metabolizes), and not properly educated about it.. Or the parents, or the truth about anything really. It's like there’s no oversight with this “war” on drugs. It's the only time I've seen somebody tasked with a job fail miserably and continue to keep their job. If this was corporate, their ass would've been brought in the office at 4pm and shitcanned on a Friday.
But nope. Still going strong. We keep decreasing education budgets and cutting curriculum when we need to be allocating extra cash and social services in our public school system. So we can start to properly educate children about drugs We need a liaison to public health or somebody that can mitigate some compassion to these fucking imbeciles, medical professionals and lawmakers in general. Tell them to yank their heads out their asses and take a look around. Countries that were in agreement with our policies have long since bailed.. we’re seen as the Lonewolf now still fighting the pointless and losing fight. Like a Defunk Nazi regime. Everybody knows it's a joke. Our policies are now the butts of those jokes. Trendy kids are wearing DARE T-shirts thinking it's cool because of the mockery it stands for. But powers that be continue to be oblivious to the situation and not address it publicly or bring it up on any voting platform.
What is it gonna take? Because millions are dead and dying, millions are homeless and have mental illnesses… And nobody seems to care as leaders of the free world. And yeah, I blame US’s stubborn ass that keeps sticking into this retarded policy. The reason people do so many drugs in this country is because the quality of their life is shit. That machine that they designed has worked a little too well and is now backfiring. Prohibition is nothing more than rich versus poor and in a struggle for power.. that has been chopped formed and repressed into the dumpster fire which is currently policy.
Society isn't off the Hook either. Perception is narrow as fuck as a whole . Our outlook and response is still to shame people for it and tell them get some help... knowing damn well we couldn't name a decent recovery center save our own life. Or bother to go to Al-Anon to learn for ourselves. It's gonna take some effort. Because nobody seems to care until it's somebody close to them. Compassion is growing slowly and that's the right direction but we gotta pick the pace up a little bit. We’ve got to introduced change from the ground up and be relentlessly aggressive about it. Start calling people out, put the same same fire behind it that the alphabet people have now because it's equally as important. Toss these ridiculous sentences, and get these people out of the justice system cause they're not criminals. I know there's no one single solution to a massive issue like ours, but we gotta start somewhere cause we're taken one step forward and two back.. And until our government decides to man the fuck up and admit that they fucked up, history will continue to repeat itself. We need to stop the delusion of the dependence on the pharmaceutical companies to save the world too.
Maybe I should be a politician... they'd probably just assassinate my ass though. lol
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