A candle-lit dinner, anyone?
Friends, while looking for information about the Mexican drug cartels crisis, I was blown away by this statement: Americans, who comprise five percent of the world’s population, consume two thirds of the world’s illegal drugs!
Are you shocked? I was! This startling information came from Joseph Califaro, chairman of CASA, (The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse) which is located at Columbia University. If you want to get more information and statistics try: http://www.casacolumbia.org/
This fact helps to explain why the Mexicans are so heavily involved in lucrative drug trafficking and why the drug cartels are so powerful they are threatening the very Government of Mexico. Of course, America gets drugs from all over the world. They come back via its troops as well as other smuggling means like small planes, ships, etc.
One irony of the situation is that the Mexican drug cartels, who kill people by the thousands in wars between cartels, are well armed and who provides them with guns? America of course. So a flood of guns flows into Mexico while a flood of cocaine and other drugs flows into America. The end result of this is that the nation of Mexico is in turmoil with politicians being shot while the Mexican Army engages in gun battles with various cartels.
But there is another worrying aspect of this situation. If drug use is so prevalent in America, what effect is it having on the thinking processes of American citizens?
Is the effect so pronounced that many citizens live in a fantasy world, one induced by drugs? Is this one of the reasons why America is such a basket case, why its citizens can’t right the political wrongs, can’t stop the corruption in their leadership, can’t end their incessant warmongering and greed?
Of course, in America, it’s not only the people at the bottom of the social pile who take drugs. Cocaine is used in the highest levels of American society which would obviously include the Government, the Pentagon, etc!
The next point that must be raised is why is this drug-saturated nation called America trying to impose its way of living upon other nations of the world. Perhaps it should concentrate on getting its own drug-addicted house in order rather than using military force to invade and occupy other nations and then force its culture upon people who would sooner die rather than accept it.
Hard drugs are for losers (though they have a place in medicine). If America could get its excessive drug use under control, perhaps it might change direction, become more sensible, more rational, more moral, more peace-seeking.
Perhaps!
it’s not just the stuff people buy; there are known quantities of medicines flushed down the toilets that end up in drinking water.
i read some headlines somewhere today about a submarine that is being used to smuggle drugs……….. wow, plenty money in drug smuggling!!!!
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Coco, using a submarine is lowdown!
It’s amazing the lengths that humans will go to to change or lessen the reality of their lives. There’s god, alcohol, cigarettes, grass, hard drugs like cocaine, sexual deviation…the list goes on and on!
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coco Reply:
July 5th, 2010 at 9:33 pm
yeah, football you forgot and pop idol……………..
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It is not just the illegal drugs that are doing harm, but the legal ones as well. My mother-in-law is 85 and can only get through her day by taking her “happy pill”. She is a valium addict, but no one seems to think that there is anything wrong with this. Everyone seems to think that if she is happy just leave her alone.
Is it any wonder that so many people take drugs when their lives are so messed up and the message is everywhere that the right drug will solve all of your problems.
Drug ads are verywhere here in the US. You cannot wtch TV, read a magazine or engage in almost any MSM without being bombarded with drug ads. I often think (jokingly) that I wish I had that disease or problem so I could take that drug and then have the wonderful life that is being shown you will have if you just take this or that drug. That is until the drug is recalled because the side effects can kill you. This, of course, gets very little attention in the media.
Drugs can do wonders and save lives, but so many now are for totally unimportant, silly uses like growing hair and longer eyelashes and most importantly making people compliant and “happy”.
When 4 year old children are dying from prescription drug over doses and doctors want to treat infants with drugs before they are even born we are in serious trouble and in need of drastic change.
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Google: Heroin in the Heartland and you might begin to re-think – Why are we in Afgooistan?
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Yeah, I forgot those two, Coco!
Jeannie, you make a good point. Between the legal drugs and the illegal ones, few people escape the net, I guess!
Grace, given that Afghanistan is the major opium supplier to the world, the fact that America is involved there, well, people can draw their own conclusions.
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David… glad to hear the good news regarding your health.
“If drug use is so prevalent in America, what effect is it having on the thinking processes of American citizens?”. NONE! It is a truly an astonishing thing the American character. Nowhere on earth will you see truly blind and willful servitude of a population to its masters. I have completely given up trying to explain simple logic in the hopes that the blinders will come off. As the old saying goes… the lights are on but no one is home.
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LT, your analysis does not leave the bulk of American people with much room to move and it suggests that the mediocre leadership they have will continue. How did a nation that began with such promise end up like this?
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David, as I stated… “the lights are on but no one is home”. You may think I exaggerate and maybe I do to some level but take a peek at this YouTube video. These are types that I often encounter in my homeland.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4M-K9iA4R0
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David G Reply:
July 7th, 2010 at 11:24 am
LT, I watched that link and had a good laugh. Then I thought about what it means and I had a good cry!
Cheers.
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