Cloud Dancer wrote: It's a known fact, the most powerful nation is unable to curb the flow of illegal drugs. Not only does it break hearts, it stops them cold.
Smoking and drinking is a much bigger problem and legal so what else is new ? A mom with 5 kids in a car drove the wrong way drunk on Vodka and killed 8 total. We need to lock up ALL drunk drivers now.
Clearly, the business of it is more important to the rules makers, than solving our problem.
There is no solution. Man has been using mind altering substances for as long as man has been around. All the enforcement and prevention methods in the world will not keep some from putting drugs into their system. All we can possibly hope for is to keep some type of lid on the problem and help those who want help.
The most powerful nation is unable to produce a sufficiently-large "lid" for this problem.
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Cloud Dancer wrote: It's a known fact, the most powerful nation is unable to curb the flow of illegal drugs. Not only does it break hearts, it stops them cold.
Smoking and drinking is a much bigger problem and legal so what else is new ? A mom with 5 kids in a car drove the wrong way drunk on Vodka and killed 8 total. We need to lock up ALL drunk drivers now.
Clearly, the business of it is more important to the rules makers, than solving our problem.
There is no solution. Man has been using mind altering substances for as long as man has been around. All the enforcement and prevention methods in the world will not keep some from putting drugs into their system. All we can possibly hope for is to keep some type of lid on the problem and help those who want help.
The most powerful nation is unable to produce a sufficiently-large "lid" for this problem.
It is not cost effective to stop or impede all illegal narcotic sales. If there was less crime there would be less jobs available in law enforcement. It is a tough habit to break for many, sad indeed
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lwmuddy wrote: Life on Earth without "Man". What an interesting concept.
A completely useless, weak and destructive animal.
Ah but with flashes of brilliance and creativity: Pachabel's Canon, Mozart's The Magic Flute, Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D-minor, the Taj Mahal, Michelangelo's ceiling in the Sistine Chapel, the Great Wall in China, NASA's moon mission, Carroll Shelby's AC Cobra, Michelangelo's David, and so very many other wondrous things.
lwmuddy wrote: Life on Earth without "Man". What an interesting concept.
A completely useless, weak and destructive animal.
Speak for yourself buddy...I find myself....completely useful...strong willed....and highly valuable
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Mandrake wrote: ......I watched many who dabbled with drugs as "recreation", and fortunately for them were able to walk away. But those of us who had different physiologys and genedtic makeup, and perhaps emotional and psychological makeup, that recreation turned into a nightmare from which some never returned, and some returned forever damaged. Living, if it may be called living, in that nightmare is a depressing, dangerous, and frightening existence.
Can you imagine continuing an activity that may kill you at any time, that damages you every time, that embarrasses you, and that makes you ashamed of yourself every time......yet you continue? Many take what seems the easier out or the only way out. Self release..........very sad.
Very true indeed. My choice was Alcohol.
Not only embarrassing myself. The family was the one who lived with, and in shame of the Husband and Daddy.
There were several things I could have blamed it on ( inherited bad Genes, bad childhood, stress, responsibilites, etc.)You get the picture.
But until I came FACE to FACE with ME. The healing process could not begin.
Yes sadly a GOOD friend of mine with a loving family and a thriving business took what he thought was the easy way out.
Sad, Sad, Very ,Very Sad.
Thank God. That has been almost Twenty Seven years ago.
But the Scars will follow my family and I to our Grave.
Preach.
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