The American Drug Culture

Thursday, May 25, 2006
Does anybody care about professional athletes taking performance enhancing drugs? Are you concerned about Barry Bonds passing Babe Ruth on the all time home run list? Do you actually care if Albert Pujols is taking drugs? If you answered “yes” to these questions consider our society; we live in a drug culture. If this era in baseball is considered the “Steroids Era” then this era in American civilization should be considered the “Drug Era”.

We have drugs for everything: concentration, sleeping, staying awake. shitting, eating, pissing, not pissing, not shitting, erections, pregnancy, heart problems, vein problems, hypertension, depression, quit smoking, gout, AIDs, cancer, diabetes, flu, cough, headaches, numbness, irritable bowels, anxiety, and everything else not mentioned. Are you hooked on drugs? No problem, we have a drug to get you off drugs. Of course these drugs don’t actually cure anything; they just keep you coming back for more pills.

Our entire society takes performance enhancing drugs on a daily basis to help concentrate better and to work more efficiently. So why does society seemed outraged at athletes for doing the same to help them work better. I wonder how many of these hypocrites who are complaining, take drugs to enhance their life on a daily basis. Probably most of them.

I also find it humorous that plants like marijuana are illegal. These plants grow in the ground and are as natural as a rose garden but yet they are evil. Give me a freakin break!!! Most of the drugs people take for the above mentioned ailments are more toxic than marijuana. Hell, alcohol and nicotine are just as bad as marijuana. Yet our government actually sends police into the forest to find and execute these plants.

They showed one of these “missions” on Cops and I laughed my ass off while watching it. They marched into the forest dressed in camouflage, jumped from helicopters like Delta Force, using the latest in technology gadgets as if they were hunting Al-Qaeda to find these evil plants. When the perpetrators were found, they were ripped from the ground and burned alive. This was a very serious “search and destroy” mission, because we are at war with ........plants! Maybe instead of burning, they should have taken some prisoners of war and moved the plants to Guantanamo Bay for "questioning" with the other terrorists.

If our Fore Fathers knew we were spending all these tax dollars hunting plants as fugitives they would rise from the grave, march to Washington and kick our legislatures in the balls. And after they ate the brains of Congress (which collectively would equal a little more than a small smack) they would migrate to Canada for healthcare. (I love zombie films!)

Why don’t they “search and destroy” plants that are really hazardous like poison ivy or poison oak? Those are worse than marijuana and cause more damage. I also have some weeds growing in my front yard that are destroying my grass. Why don’t they hunt and destroy those? Do you think if we smoked rose petals they would have "missions" to hunt down and destroy those too? Are they going to make mushrooms illegal too – those can get you feeling "good"?

The real problem with marijuana is the drug companies don’t make any money from the sales. They don’t want people cutting into their sales; that is the primary reason marijuana is illegal. So instead of smoking a natural plant which grows in the ground, the government would prefer you take some artificially manufactured drugs made from toxic materials. Did you realize there are more toxic chemicals in a Twinkie or a can of soda than there is in a marijuana plant?

Anyway, getting back to my original point, who cares if baseball players take growth hormones or steroids? Besides taking these drugs cannot aid a player in hitting a ball, you still have to have talent. But if you could take a drug and earn tens of millions of dollars, would you do it? I’ll bet 9 out of 10 would do it. It’s their body; if they want to take the risk then we should respect their decision. We take risks with every drug we take and many of the legal drugs have deadlier side effects than growth hormones. But if we do care, then we should clean up our own drug problems first. Let’s start with the American drug companies. I wish these sports geeks would shut the hell up and find something new to bitch about.

By the way this is probably my last post until June 6. I am leaving for South Dakota and Wyoming tomorrow and will not return until then. I will try to post some pictures while on the road but that all depends on the Internet access at the hotels. For new visitors check out the archives, I’ve posted some good love stories under “From the Heart” You’ll find more archived political essays and some paranormal stories if you look to your right.

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8 Comments:

Blogger Law Fairy said...

Yeah... I have a hard time getting worked up about the steroids thing, but that's also probably because I think sports are kinda boring anyway. The thing that bothers me about steroid use *in general* is that it makes people stronger *AND* more violent, which scares me a little. But you don't see people getting worked up about random beefy angry guys walking down the street. Go figure.

I seriously Do Not Get how it is that doctors can prescribe freaking MORPHINE for a patient who is in pain but not pot. Huh?? Morphine is a NARCOTIC. Pot is just a plant! It's less chemically addictive than alcohol! I especially hate how it's essentially more illegal for some races to smoke marijuana. I have, er, um, a "friend" who, um, is a white attorney and the other day she was smoking pot with some of her friends out in the open in a park in Los Angeles. No one bothered her. But I bet they would've if she'd been hanging out with black dudes. Fucked. Up.

Out of curiosity, has anyone tried your rose petal idea? I'm a little tempted now. I also think it's funny that the anti-marijuana warriors dig the stuff up and burn it. Hehehe. Wish they'd do that closer to my apartment next time.

10:19 AM  
Blogger Law Fairy said...

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10:19 AM  
Blogger DarthImmortal said...

Law Fairy,

That is a great point you just raised about the white people smoking pot and nobody caring. I do agree if blacks were there smoking weed the cops would have been all over them.

If you do try the rose petal idea just remember to dry them out thoroughly. LOL!

Mimi,

I want a cure too; I'm tired of drugs. But there is no money in cures. This new stem cell technology is supposed to have cures.

Thanks for your comments.

10:51 AM  
Blogger DarthImmortal said...

Law Fairy,

One more thing I forgot to mention is that these newer growth hormones are different from old fashioned steroids. They are called “designer drugs” and do not have many of the side effects like aggressiveness like the steroids had. Of course, they are very new so the long term effects are not yet known. But if you want to take the risks and use them anyway then so be it. I think sports are a loser too; read this for more information.

11:16 AM  
Blogger Kitten wtw said...

have a good trip, I mean holiday.

11:56 AM  
Blogger Unknown said...

I completely disagree with people who say that pot isn't addictive. It might not be physically addictive, but I know at least 3 people who can't get through a day without smoking a bowl. If you can't make it one single day without a substance, you're addicted! Wouldn't you say that about someone who couldn't get through the day without alcohol or cocaine or cigarettes?

I certainly wouldn't compare it to a narcotic or something as strong as that, but it is psychologically addictive for a lot of people out there. It also causes some serious long term memory loss for people who are heavy users. There's a girl I know who smokes daily that, even when totally sober, can't remember anything at all. She forgot where her house was once while NOT high, and she's been living there for 20 years. It's pathetic.

The whole legality issue is a little more sticky for me simply for the following reason. If pot is illegal and cigarettes, which pretty much destroy your entire cardiovascular system in a slow painful way, aren't, then that's not reasonable at all. I hate cigarette smoking. It's a nasty vile disgusting horrible addictive practice that needs to be erradicated for the good of every future generation. I saw my great uncle die from lung cancer, and it was absolutely horrible. For the last 15 years of his life, he was on an oxygen tank and wasn't able to drive or even leave the house for the last 5 years. The really ridiculous part about it was that he was still smoking after being diagnosed with lung cancer and emphysema. He also saw lung cancer kill his wife 20 years earlier too, and he couldn't stop smoking.

Cigarette companies make a fortune even now off of killing people slowly, and it's wrong period.

Ok... I'm done ranting...

10:45 AM  
Blogger Milwaukee Girl said...

Who's taking care of the kitties?

1:43 PM  
Blogger DarthImmortal said...

MG,

My brother and sister will both look in on the kitties.

11:01 PM  

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