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by the Health Ranger (Mike Adams)
Drugs are bad. Drugs destroy peoples' lives. Didn't you know that
marijuana turns regular everyday people into zombie pot smokers? That's
why we have a war on drugs in America: to protect our children from
potheads.
Drugs are bad. Especially marijuana. I learned this the other day when I
visited an elementary school as a guest speaker. The schoolchildren were
well trained in describing the dangers of drugs. On command, they would
spout out any number of statements describing them.
But then a funny thing happened. I started asking how many of them were
on drugs. You know, drugs their doctor prescribed. Drugs that alter
brain chemistry to keep them docile, or free of pain, or to dilate their
lungs so they could breathe easier.
It turned out that 60% of these schoolchildren were either on drugs at
that very moment, or had been on such drugs within the last twelve
months. Two-thirds of the teachers were on drugs, too. And it's not at
all a stretch to believe that 40% or more of all parents are on drugs.
Mild-altering drugs like antidepressants, no less.
A nation of drug addicts
Fact is, we are a nation of drug addicts. We drug ourselves, our elderly
and our children on a daily basis. We do it with prescription
medications, over-the-counter pills, alcohol, caffeine, nicotine... and
we say it's all fine because those drugs are legal.
But wait a minute, you say. Those legal drugs are different from
marijuana. They're FDA-approved drugs, prescribed by a doctor. They have
a medical purpose.
Oh really? Ritalin has a medical purpose? What medical symptoms does
Ritalin treat, then? What measurable physiological state is addressed
with Ritalin? There are none, of course. Ritalin is an authority drug.
It keeps children in line. It makes teachers feel less stress and
parents feel less guilt. Ritalin is a mind-altering narcotic, and yet
millions of children are on it today. Its purpose is not to help
children, but to make life more convenient for those who manage
children.
You think statin drugs have a medical purpose? Think again. In reality,
they only have a profit purpose. These drugs were invented to sell pills
that manage disease states in people, not that solve any real health
problem. Don't believe me? Just stop taking your statin drugs, if you
dare, and watch your cholesterol skyrocket. You'll find out you're a
slave to the drug, and no healthier than before.
What's the difference between legal and illegal drugs?
So what's the real difference between legal drugs and illegal drugs?
Some people think that only illegal drugs are habit-forming. Yet legal
drugs can be just as addictive as illegal drugs. Just ask anyone who has
tried to quit smoking, go off caffeine, or kick to Oxycontin habit.
So is there some other difference between illegal drugs and legal drugs?
People argue that legal drugs are safe. They're FDA-approved! And yet
they fail to recognize that prescription drugs kill more Americans each
year than all the crack, meth, and heroin deaths combined.
Okay, then, what about the argument that illegal drugs have no medicinal
purpose, and legal drugs do have a medicinal purpose. What about that?
Wrong again. Medical marijuana is a medically proven treatment for a
variety of conditions, yet marijuana still remains illegal. Even MDMA
(now called "Ecstasy" on the street) was long considered an effective
"experiential drug" that helped severely traumatized adult patients
overcome past pains through improved clarity. At the same time, tobacco
smoke has no medical purpose whatsoever, yet cigarettes remain perfectly
legal.
No, the real difference between these two classes of drugs is not their
medical merit, nor their safety. The real difference is something far
more sinister. It gets right down to answering the question of why DEA
agents will raid medical marijuana clinics, yet stand by doing nothing
while Americans smoke themselves to death on tobacco.
Want to know the real answer? I very much doubt you do. Because, like
most Americans, you won't believe it. You've been blinded to the obvious
truth for your whole life, manipulated by the media, and brainwashed by
advertising that has turned you into a statistically-validated consumer.
You'll think, no, this couldn't possibly be true. The world isn't that
unjust, you think. But you're wrong. (Take the free Gullibility Factor
test to find out if you're really a mind slave or not...)
Here's the raw, blunt truth about the war on drugs. Drugs are declared
legal or illegal based primarily on who benefits from their manufacture,
distribution and sale.
Corporate and government profits determine the legality
Let me put this another way. You know why cigarettes are still legal?
Consider this: here's a product that admittedly kills people. It has no
health benefit whatsoever. It is a threat to the public health. Yet why
does it remain legal? Because states get a cut of cigarette sales thanks
to the Big Tobacco settlement a few years back. Keeping cigarettes legal
results in desperately-needed revenues for states... revenues that are
almost never spent on anti-smoking campaigns, by the way.
It's a classic racket: tobacco is allowed to remain legal because
powerful institutions get a cut of the action. While people die from
lung cancer, states get financial resuscitation by taking a cut of every
sale. States are trading your health for their revenues.
Think I'm being overly cynical? Let's take a look at gambling laws.
Organized gambling is illegal at both the state and federal levels in
this country. Except, of course, when government gets a cut.
Casino-friendly states didn't just make casinos legal for the good of
the public: they legalized gambling in exchange for a cut of the action.
It's a classic, mob-style "protection fee."
If you want to test this theory, launch your own online gambling
website. You'll be shut down almost immediately and charged with serious
crimes. Gambling and organized betting is illegal, didn't you know? That
is, unless the state runs the show, as in state lotteries.
It's right in your face, folks: gambling is legal when powerful
corporations or institutions get a piece of the action. It's illegal
when they don't. It has nothing at all to do with morality, or
protecting people, or doing what's right. It's all about money, pure and
simple. Just ask all the corrupt politicians in Missouri who legalized
riverboat gambling a few years back.
Getting back to drugs, why do you think alcohol remains a legal drug?
Because states and cities tax it. State governments are addicted to
alcoholics as a source of revenue to fund their voter entitlement
programs that get politicians reelected. Alcohol is a cash machine for
cities and states.
With all that in mind, why do you think prescription drugs that kill
people remain legal? Think carefully now...
If you guessed, "Because powerful corporations generate billions in
profits selling drugs, and governments get a cut of that via state sales
taxes and corporate income taxes" then BINGO! You win a prize: a
lifetime of free Prozac to keep you happy!
Legal drugs generate windfall profits for those in power
Think about it: if prescription drugs were peddled by street dealers
instead of doctors, and if all that revenue changed hands in a
non-taxable, non-corporate structure (i.e. street cash), then you'd be
seeing full-scale law enforcement action against the makers,
distributors and sellers of those drugs. You'd also see endless
headlines about how dangerous they were: "Street painkillers kill twelve
in South Miami!"
The sad truth of the matter, though, is that those very same painkilling
drugs killed at least twelve people in South Miami this very day. But
you'll never here about it in the media. Because the news networks are
sponsored by drug companies, of course. (The news is not designed to
inform you, it's designed to shape your reality, to turn you into a
consumer of whatever products the corporations are peddling this year.
Didn't you know?)
Every drug that's legal is legal for one simple reason: somebody in a
position of power is keeping it legal because they're getting a cut.
Non-patentable drugs are usually outlawed
That's why medical marijuana is illegal: because government doesn't
control its distribution, nor does government receive a financial cut.
You can bet your life that if Big Pharma owned the patents on medical
marijuana and could set monopolistic prices on it, pot would be
perfectly legal to own and smoke. That is, as long as you got it from a
pharmacy where prices and distribution could be controlled.
Control is the key here. You think the FDA is discrediting drugs from
Canada in order to protect your health? Get real. The FDA is simply
protecting the monopoly drug market in this country. It's controlling
distribution points in the U.S. in the same way that a crack dealer
assassinates his street corner competition. Eliminate the competition,
and you can set whatever price you want. That's why uninformed U.S.
consumers pay 30,000% markup prices for drugs that can be acquired in
Mexico or Canada for pennies on the dollar.
It's not about your health, it's about their wealth
You see, corporate America doesn't really care what you put in your
mouth, up your nose, through your lungs or into your veins, as long as
they get a cut from it. That's the whole prescription drug racket in a
nutshell: it's billions of dollars in annual profits generated from
mind-altering (yet legal) drugs that flat-out kill people. Lots of
people. Like 100,000 Americans a year (or a lot more if you believe more
critical statistics).
So if you've ever wondered why Ritalin -- which has no medical purpose
whatsoever -- is perfectly legal, and yet medical marijuana -- which has
a well-proven medical purpose -- is outlawed, now you know the answer:
because Ritalin makes powerful people rich. And marijuana doesn't.
Anybody can grow marijuana. Drug companies don't control the patents.
Why I teach people to be 100% drug free
Now, just for the record, I do not personally use any drugs whatsoever
(recreational, over-the-counter, prescription or otherwise), and in
fact, I teach people to be 100% free of all drugs, including caffeine
and alcohol. I bought into the "just say no to drugs" advice of Nancy
Reagan, and I actually applied it to ALL drugs, not just selective
drugs.
And as far as I can tell, aside from the Mormons and the Amish, there
are only a small percentage of truly drug-free people living in this
country. Practically everybody I meet is addicted to at least one of the
following: coffee, cigarettes, alcohol, pain meds, prescription drugs or
sugar (which alters brain chemistry in drug-like fashion).
At the same time, I'm not at all fooled by this silly "War on Drugs"
charade, which is really nothing more than enforcement of corporate drug
profits at gunpoint. If we had a genuine war on drugs in this country
that really worked to protect the American people we'd send DEA agents
into drug company offices and confiscate all the legalized but deadly
medications being manufactured, distributed and deceptively sold to
unwitting Americans today.
Medical marijuana is a threat to both the profits and power of drug
companies, not to mention the credibility of the DEA. Letting grannies
smoke pot in California makes DEA agents look silly. If it were allowed,
it would also undermine the billions of dollars already spent
incarcerating people for "pot crimes." Basically, it would make the
whole War on Drugs look stupid. Which it most assuredly is, at least
when it comes to marijuana.
I can understand taking a tough stance on hard drugs (crack, meth,
heroin, etc.), but arresting cancer patients who smoke joints for pain
control sounds a lot more like oppression than law enforcement to me.
So what is the War on Drugs? It's an excuse to control you. It is a
system that keeps the population in a state of constant fear so that
heroic politicians can get elected on empty promises to "keep fighting
the war on drugs!"
The DEA is AWOL on most drug issues
Where is this War on Drugs when it comes to Grandma in the nursing home,
who died of a stroke caused by Cox-2 inhibitor drugs? Where is the War
on Drugs when little Johnny schoolboy picks up a rifle and blows away
his classmates because he's on antidepressants and can't tell the
difference between real life and a first-person-shooter video game?
Where is the War on Drugs when 16,500 people each year die, shitting
digested blood until they pass out and die because that daily dose of
aspirin tore a gaping hole in their stomach?
The War on Drugs, you see, turns a blind eye to the death and suffering
caused by these drugs. The DEA pretends prescription drugs don't even
exist. No prescription drug death has ever been prevented by the DEA as
far as I know. Yet 100,000 Americans are killed each year by
FDA-approved drugs. The DEA has no interest whatsoever in protecting
Americans from these drugs. Ever wonder why?
The DEA is properly named, by the way. It's the Drug Enforcement Agency.
It's enforcing drugs. The right drugs. The legal drugs. The drugs that
make money for drug companies, drug distributors, drug retailers,
cities, states and countries. It's enforcement at gunpoint, and as long
as the money keeps flowing, the drugs will stay perfectly legal,
regardless of who dies.
The entire distribution system is well in place: the false and
misleading television advertising, the outright bribery of drug dealers
(doctors), the street corner fulfillment centers (pharmacies), and the
coordinating drug lord running the show (the Fraud and Drug
Administration). It's a brilliant system for manufacturing, promoting,
delivering and selling deadly, addictive drugs to children, adults and
seniors while generating corporate profits and tax revenues for cities,
states and nations.
And that's the raw truth about the War on Drugs. You may not like it,
but now, at least, you know why it exists.
So I have a common sense question for all the people in this country. If
you support the War on Drugs, then why are you taking so many drugs
yourself? And why are you allowing your children to be drugged?
--
Juba
www.masterjuba.com
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