if we have truly moved on from the dark age of spiteful prejudice and hatred against anyone who is different, then it’s time you put your money where your mouth is and legalise drugs.
why are you writing this?
in today’s world, here and now, the war on drugs has come to a head. before you start whining, this is the case whether you are a person who takes drugs or not. there is so much misery and violence going on, all completely avoidable and – if we had a regulated market – we could render the business model of the black market impossible and pointless to even conceptualise. this would be good news for a lot of people. before you snigger about that, it would be good news for the people who actually want the war on drugs in the first place. not many of them kicking around any more, but some of them are still alive
here is an interview of common questions that consider the real reasons the public are genuinely interested in when it comes to [legislative] drug policy, the real reasons it carries on, the false reasons it carries on and why they are so blatantly false. i am not going to post any statistics just basic facts that can be [and have been] easily verified
why does the war on drugs exist?
in the very beginning of worldwide legislative drug policy, the philosophy of what the rules should be and how it should be enforced, who was punished and how severely so, was predominantly a knee-jerk, reactionary extension of the united states could use in order to propagate its foreign policy to a vast range of different economic elements of both the private and public sector in countries throughout the world
although the war on drugs was famously used to help out the electoral success of richard nixon [a US president], the standard of policy was simply to try and prevent as many people as possible from ever using drugs, for any reason, whether it is essential medication for sick and disabled people or not
take a moment to think about the demographics of the united states at the start of the 19th century [before the 1930s and WWII]. what did voters want? think about what else was illegal back then, like abortion, anal sex, having children without a husband, having children at all if you are gay or lesbian
the whole point of the war on drugs in the first place was because a white christian nation, passionate about imposing their morality to the rest of the world whether you like it or not, got sick of looking at people getting along just fine without them. as sure as the world was becoming a more liberal and open-minded place in which to exist, said nation started to take stock of a few things, and they did not like what they found
even though an entire continent made up of just 1 country in the north was capable of ruining someone’s life permanently for even a small quantity of anything, this was not enough. winning an election, claiming that you care about the health, safety, wellbeing of people … back then, as a source of up-to-date real-time information and properly scrutinised research, all that they had was a radio, a television [if you were posh, a colour one] and the newspaper that was printed and distributed en-masse by big players with lots of money. this was as good an education you could get
the origins of the moralist cause against drugs
there are things people can say or do all over the world in the year 2023 that in the 1930s were completely unacceptable. the employment of women, a mixed race couple [a mixed race anything], a woman having sex before she gets married to someone for the rest of her life, anal sex full stop, letting people come to live and work in your country, same sex marriage, letting someone be an homosexual even if they don’t do anything with a consenting adult, not going to church on a sunday, an unmarried woman keeping her baby, the list goes on
the reason the 1930s in particular are important is because that is where the united states began to export their drug policy to other countries all over the world. as you can see, the primary mission of the policy about most things back then is to enable and facilitate discrimination. drugs were also a brilliant political move for elected officials all over the world, since at the time the war on drugs was seen as a public health campaign
there is also the factor of certain pharmaceutical companies, their intellectual property, their products, their process, their global industry competition. in the 1930s, outside of medical uses the paper industry was worried about the threat posed by hemp to its business model. at the time alcohol was prohibited, which was probably the biggest red flag about the “free” world’s bullshit that should have taught us a very harsh and important lesson about the catastrophic failure of prohibition. alas, it didn’t. also, some recreational substances like coffee, snuff, etc were characteristic of people from certain foreign nations especially since the anslinger propaganda of 1936 [“let’s bring back alcohol, and tell the concerned [even more authoritarian and right wing] electorate that this will allow you to criminalise everything else
what about the sick and disabled people? well their role in history has been somewhat bleak an outlook. the suffering of vulnerable, sick, disabled has always been collateral damage where the war on drugs is concerned
in the 1930s anslinger propaganda, a new word was coined that was on everyone’s lips. Marijuana [marihuana] will make white women seek sexual relations with negroes, or entertainers, or any others so claimed the public office propaganda. this word was deployed as a political tactic to associate cannabis with foreign immigrants who are going to seduce and corrupt our white women. to be fair, it worked. to be unfair, the entire campaign has caused more imprisonment, more deaths, more violence, more sexual violence, real slavery still thriving and effective especially in the developed and so-called civilised world, more abused children, an endless ocean of vulnerable people being beaten up and thrown in jail, more people getting lethal injection for cannabis
in the classic “tell your children” [reefer madness], it wasn’t actually supposed to be funny. it’s funny now in that it renders political satire obsolete, it’s funny now because we have more sources of information all over the world, it’s funny now because these sad sacks spend so much money sending petty possession beefs, it’s funny now because we can’t trust any official source of news on the entire subject of drugs ever again, it’s funny because after all of the hateful things we used to do to homosexuals, the disabled, the sick, the poor, the tired. well no. the only thing that’s tired now is the whole pointless, expensive, dangerous, and violent bullshit that is the war on drugs. the only reason it started in the first place was because the public didn’t [and couldn’t] know any better
what should we have learned as a species during prohibition?
at our present time in 2023, the only reason that the pointless war on drugs still exists is because of a population that inherited the discrimination, closed minded, full on ignorance of their ancestors. politicians can still use it as a tried and true sound-bite to curry support from voters who are running out of people they can discriminate against to make themselves feel better
prohibition should have opened our eyes, but it didn’t. you can’t blame older generations for not having their eyes opened though, because they were spoon fed all of the information they ever had for all this time. we can see that from the many, many examples that the neo-liberal woke people are always happy to remind us about
even if you forgive history for not noticing the danger of prohibition when we had the chance, the ultimate conclusion of the war on drugs was only just realised again recently, with the proliferation of legal highs. a new player that is taking the black market on drugs by storm!
legal highs are the inevitable conclusion of people trying to either get high or have the proper medication that they are prevented from having by the war on drugs. they started like this:
first, the government think that they are going to win the war on drugs by banning a drug that people can use to either feel good or feel better. then it puts the banned drug into the law, and starts searching people cars; ruining people’s careers and livelihood because of the content of their pockets one night many years ago, etc. – sooner or later, the risk of going and getting these illegal things becomes too much for a growing number of people. the motives of these people, when the government made the laws in the first place, was expected to go something like this “it has been so difficult to obtain the banned drugs [for any reason, especially therapeutic medicine in this case] that we have decided we are going to give up on the [very personal to every individual] reason that we have this demand in the first place.”
said no-one. ever.
once this group of people swelled into something big enough, it became commercially viable. alls we have to do in the free world is tweak the classic drugs a little bit so that they become something that isn’t anticipated or accounted for by the language used in the existing drug laws
when legal highs started to appear, you can always get the feeling you’re looking to have with something that is similar to the real thing but COMPLETELY LEGAL! if you knew legal highs were going to happen, you probably don’t need me to tell you why these similar but legal alternatives are probably one of the biggest public health crises that we will ever have on this planet. i’m still gonna tell you anyway:
legal highs are a catastrophic consequence of our archaic, arbitrary drug laws. they are a self fulfilling prophecy. What are they doing about legal highs now? banning everything that people can put into their body that works, is another pathetic veneer to bamboozle the average moron into thinking that the war against drugs is going to be won by banning more things, and activities. it’s time to put the cards on the table, after 100 years of the war on drugs and the absolute bullshit that people still fall for even in the futuristic age of 2023. the only reason that drug prohibition even goes on is because sad miserable cunts don’t like the fact that hundreds of millions of people all around planet earth are enjoying themselves, by any means at all. the fact that it’s drugs is just an excuse so that the same sad miserable cunts can still discriminate and spew their vile prejudiced hatred at people and get away with it without those around them seeing just exactly what kind of a bigoted prick they really are
i can’t be assed writing any more. maybe i will carry it on if at any point i am inspired to write more about the obvious truth that becomes more and more obvious every day
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