May
29
According to Establishment rhetoric, the U.S. government is engaged in a War on Drugs. Pharmacological conspiriologists regard this terminology as deliberately misleading: If you go out your door and drive a few blocks, they say, you will find at least one store boldly declaring that they sell DRUGS, although some say PHARMACY, which can only be deciphered by those who know Greek roots; and in these stores, hundreds of drugs are available. Nearby is a supermarket where you can buy cigarettes, containing nicotine, a drug more addictive than heroin, according to former Surgeon General C. Everett Koop. Next door is a BAR where you can buy dozens of varieties of C2H5OH, a heavily addictive narcotic statistically linked to wife and child battering, divorce, and violent crime.
The government, thus, is not making war on all drugs, but only on some. The government asserts that the drugs on their taboo list are the worst ones; critics say they are merely the ones that are either (a) cheap and effective, such as herbal medicines, and/or (b) not easy to monopolize, such as marijuana, or (c) better than the higher-priced drugs manufactured by the large pharmaceutical corporations that financially support both political parties.
It all depends on whether you believe the cynical proverb “Laws are like sausages: You have much more respect for them if you haven’t actually seen how they’re made. Robert Anton Wilson, Miriam Joan Hill, “Everything Is Under Control: Conspiracies, Cults and Cover-ups”
The government, thus, is not making war on all drugs, but only on some. The government asserts that the drugs on their taboo list are the worst ones; critics say they are merely the ones that are either (a) cheap and effective, such as herbal medicines, and/or (b) not easy to monopolize, such as marijuana, or (c) better than the higher-priced drugs manufactured by the large pharmaceutical corporations that financially support both political parties.
It all depends on whether you believe the cynical proverb “Laws are like sausages: You have much more respect for them if you haven’t actually seen how they’re made. Robert Anton Wilson, Miriam Joan Hill, “Everything Is Under Control: Conspiracies, Cults and Cover-ups”
