Friday 4:20
This week I bring you an appalling drug policy story that I saw while perusing the excellent Drugnews Digest at The Media Awareness Project. They are an excellent news site, compiling drug policy news stories from around the world. Check them out. Anyway, we North Americans live privileged pampered lives at the expense of people living on the other side of the world. No wonder shopping at Wal-Mart is a tool of the patriarchy, as all of their goods are cheap crap from China. But it isn’t just our rich white honky lifestyles that hurt people. Just consider the damage that international drug policy has had on disadvantaged groups from around the world.
In the name of eliminating drug crops, dangerous, poisonous pesticides rain down from the sky. This has been going on in Columbia for many years in an attempt to kill the drug crops. What has been the result of this policy? The governments spend billions of dollars on drug eradication and drugs are more widely available at cheaper prices every year. According to the US governments own statistics, drug production in Columbia is up by 36%! AY-YI-YI!!! This should be a good enough reason to lay off of the aerial drug eradication poison. But no! I bring you more bad news.
A group of 100 widows in Columbia that started a farm, after tragically losing their loved ones, recently lost their crops due to aerial eradication. Unfortunately, Teresa Ortega and her group are just one of 10 000 farmers that reported losing their crops in recent years.
What the hell are we thinking, to allow this to go on year after year?
Instead of coming to their senses and legalizing all drugs, likely some disconnected government agency will issue a report shaming the cocaine addicts in Hollywood for the fact that their habit probably came at the expense of someone’s hard-earned food crops. Stupid government. #%$@#$^#^%^%^#
March 7th, 2009 at 10:49 am
The way we’re losing money, and with our overpopulation in prisons, I say legalize drugs. We’ve all seen people who had some weed spend more time in prison than rapists and murderers. It’s sick.