WAR ON WHO?

Ask yourself if when you imagine a drug dealer it's a black crack dealer. Because that's what the government has engineered in you. Manufactured in you to distract you from the truth that drug users and abusers, addicts and casuals are our brothers, our friends, our daughters, sisters, and parents. When we ask for a Drug Free America we ask for a Love Free America, because their is no known way under heaven to rid our nation of drugs unless we incarcerate and destroy our family and friends. This life is not getting any easier. The problems and pain that we must endure as part of the human experience will find no solution in this age, nor the next. And it follows that many of the people we love and treasure will be driven to drugs to cope with their private, and most often misunderstood trajedies. Drugs are with us as pain is with us and part of our nature. To deny one is to deny the other. And if we bear any love for our family, friends, and neighbors we will bend our small-mindedness, accept their frailty, and understand them so we may help them heal. For what reason is a war waged if not, ultimately, to protect the ones we love? A drug war they call it, when the war is on our own people, and the casualties are, in all the world, the closest to our hearts.

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