Something I've been meaning to say...
09/25/2003 11:46 p.m.
Have you noticed how the media in the last 5 years has been showing the junkie lifestlye romantically?
I've seen so many movies now, that glorify the junkie plight into a 120 minute movie... So many come off as the Junkie as the hero.. I'm not saying this in a bad way, but I don't know too many junkie hero's in the world today, so maybe thats the point, show something like that since it never happens.. much as most anything in a movie..
But I've noticed we went through a shift with the social view on addiction... I mean people still live in denail about addiction.. they try to say that alot of things are needs, not addictions.. but I have to say, I play Devil's Advocate.. I think people are addicted to the american lifestyle.. I think if you took someone out of the city who'd been raised there their whole life and forced them onto a farm, it'd proabbly rank up there with crack or Cigerettes...
I see people everyday addicted to stuff.. and this is legal, buy it in a drive through type of addiction.. and this is just food.. not even good food at that..
I wont deny it, I'm one of them.. I love fast food.. it's fast.. and I'm lazy.. like 80% of the nation that is overweight.. but you don't see people cracking down on the fat content at McD's but they sure will turn their eyes away when a legless guy is begging for change to buy a hotpocket and a soda...
I fear this world that I learn more and more about everyday... I think I should stop sharing these random thoughts in my head and just stick to the basics... I'm proabbly comming off too deep for most of you...
But still.. I don't see the point in romancing something like addiction with funny movies about stoners and crackheads... All that does it make our kids think it's glamourous to be a junkie.. to have junkie friends.. to be part of something illegal and undergroung.. to feel like you have found something that they don't want you to have..
And I really don't understand why America lets certain addictions go, and challenge other ones...I have a great drug reform policy that would remove all the crackheads from the streets, and all the poor potheads from Jail..

Have a place where people can go.. Like a halfway house..
You wanna go smoke crack? Go for it.. I'm sure the DEA siezed enough yesterday to feed the habits of all the junkies in the US of A... Just fence it up, make poeple stay there as long as they want to do drugs.. Hell, Film it even.. Make it like Survivor: Crackheads Vs. H Junkies..
(I'd bet on the Crackheads) at least then we wouldnt have such a degradation of man on your front step... or should I say, Your front overstep..
It would take the supply and demand away from the Mafia and "Terrorists".. not only that, but give artists a place to commune to when they finally run out of options..

If you happen to die in the Great crackhouse, they get your body for science.. to see what the effects of this addiction had on you.. I'm sure they still have lots of efforts in the war against drug addiction..

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