From: homer@theory.TC.Cornell.EDU (Homer Smith)
Subject: Re: Bill's Billy, Roger (was Re: Some anonymous posts)
Organization: Cornell Theory Center
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 06:39:30 GMT


>If you recall the
>Rolling Stone thread from a few months back, 
>Clinton was quoted as saying that
>he absolutely believed that he saved his brother's life by calling the cops.  
     I like Clinton, when I voted for him I 'felt the power'.  However
you must notice the illogic in Clinton's stand.  His implication
is that without the war on drugs and the calling in of the forces
of criminal punishment and incarceration that his brother might be
dead.
 
     The POINT is that if drugs were legal, and addicts could get
them at a pharmacy, they could also be kept track of and perhaps
made to have weekly visits to group sessions to make sure
that they are staying straight of CRIME and taking care of themselves.
 
     The most deadly thing about drugs is that no one talks about them
especially when they are doing them and need to talk about them the
most.
 
     As the emotional charge builds up, as the money runs out,
as the secrets and perhaps even criminal witholds accumulate trying
to keep your addiction going, with no social interaction to help
alleviate the pain and the suffering, the possibiliy of overdosing
or doing crack to distraction becomes very real.  
 
     As the Britain broadcast made abundantly clear, addicts that
were given their drug FOR FREE but were also made to show up
at weekly addict meetings, not to get them off but to keep them
alive, criminally straight and healthy, were suddenly removed from
the pressures surrounding have to find money to pay for the drugs,
having to keep the whole thing secret and having to deal with the
more debased and criminally filthy aspects of our society.

    In fact once the drug was pure and FREE to them, they were
are to carry on with their lives unburdened by the continuous
present time problems of how to et drugs, where to do them,
and how to pay for them.  With the WORRY and FEAR and LIES gone,
and people actually looking after them while they did the drug,
they managed to pull themselves back over the border line to where
they could be addicted but not fall over the edge.  In fact being
addicted in such a calm and orderly well cared for environment 
gives one a tremendous margin of rebound.

     Given the drug for free, they again regained their self respect,
GOT BACK TO FUCKING WORK ADDING TO THE GNP RATHER THAN DETRACTING FROM
IT, were not tempted to over do the drug to distraction because
were not charging themselves up with a secret shameful life, and
they could talk openly with others like them about their problem.
 
     If drug addiction is physical, then it is totally insane to
have a drug war.  The addiction probably has little to do with
doing the drug, the addiction was there for ANYTHING long before
it took its outlet in the drug.  Its this idea that DOING the drug
CREATES the addiction makes people think that we just eradicated
the drug we would eradicate all addiction.  They think that
people don't even WANT to do drugs until they have been forced or tricked
to by a pusher, so if all the pushers were to be destroyed, no one
would have any interest in drugs.
 
     I assure you that if drugs did not exist, men would invent them
and do them.

     Life hurts, and drugs help.  That's what they are the for.  
Often life has hurt people so much they become marginal and
doing the drug explodes all that suppressed pain to the surface
and they go nuts.  The answer to this is a bit of quality control
in the childrearing process and the livingness process, (hopefully
not government mandated.)
 
     If drug addiction is psychical, then it is also totally insane to
have a drug war.  The addiction will never be solved until
the underlying disatisfaction or trauma with life, livingness and 
perhaps God is solved.
 
     All enlightened social policy starts with throwing the
moralists in jail where they belong.
 
     Drugs are illegal fo only one reason, they have a proper
place in our society and more money can be made from them
being illegal than not.

     For example, if drugs were legal, what would happen to
all those Segal vs The Drug Lords movies?  They would ALL
be passe over night.
 
     That's a joke.


     Homer




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