According to the federal government...
- 8,400 Americans begin using drugs every day.
- 50% of them are under the age of 18.
- 68% of folks who become addicted to drugs begin with marijuana.
Two Too Bads...
- Too bad our heads do not turn left and right. If they did we could look around our collective selves and see what’s going on in the world around us. If we did look around collective ourselves, we could benefit from the mistakes made by the world and not repeat their mistakes... Or could we?... Or would we?
- Too bad we don’t have a 24 Hour News Cycle to feed us information about what’s going on in the world.
What’s that you say? Did you just say to your computer screen that I am all wet again because our heads do turn left and right and we do have a 24 Hours News Cycle?
I find this hard to believe because, if what you just said about what I just said were true, there is no way we would be moving more and more towards Legalization of Marijuana.
The world has experimented for us but we are determined to not see the awful result of their tinkering. We are determined to do what they did and trust the results will be different...
- In Holland, they sell pot in "coffee shops". The problem is their people have learned how to walk out of coffee shops. It seems the streets of Amsterdam, in particular, have become saturated with stoned people doing things outside that should not even be done inside.
- The Netherlands also passed a new law forbidding children from smoking pot IN SCHOOL. That's right, some of the urchins were getting high between classes. One teacher told the press it's hard to stop that when pot is being legally sold across the street, where hardcore drug addicts buy it and then sell it to the kids in order to get heroin money.
- In Portugal, they have legalized all drugs. The result: drug-related homicides have increased 40% and drug overdoses are up 30%.
- In Switzerland, drug-related deaths doubled and the health care system was overwhelmed after heroin was made legal in Zurich. The law was rescinded.
Did you notice the last part of the bullet above where it says, “The law was rescinded”? They took back their mistake. They said, “Oops!”
Over here in the Good Ole USofA we look right at their screw ups and say, “Dat’s Kool! Why can’t we be forward thinking like those European Type People?”
Here’s hoping we can learn to be clearer thinking in the future. That way we could learn from the steps they will take when they start putting their society back together and we could follow their example when we attempt to put our society back together.
Would I kid u?
Smartfella
