Crank Up the Consumption

So, I was reading up on Obama's trip to Mexico, and that the visit had left some unresolved issues in the minds of many. One of those issues was the "war on drugs." Particularly, the promises made to the Mexican government on the part of the American government in terms of what we were, in reality, going to do to combat it. One of the noted shortfalls of all the decision-making that took place was the lack of resolution against "the problem of consumption in the US." This part really threw me for a loop. "The problem of consumption," as I (and a number of Americans) see it, is a vastly misconstrued notion. In the first place, the 'problem' of 'consumption' of 'drugs' insinuates that those who consume drugs such as cannabis or the occasional pharmaceutical narcotic are in no way different from those with a fierce addiction to amphetamines or heroin. In fact, the very basis of the 'war on drugs' is that all 'drugs' are bad, and the propaganda which has been promulgated to this effect has only strengthened this stigma in the American mind.

So, I wrote to the White House. I submitted a letter on whitehouse.gov and asked President Obama if he would reconsider his stance on the legalization of harmless drugs. I mentioned the overcrowding of our prisons, I mentioned the deplorable state of affairs at our borders, and I made sure to bring up the statements of Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman Loera, thanking the United States political machine for keeping 'drugs' illegal. In his own words, "I couldn't have gotten so stinking rich without George Bush, George Bush Jr., Ronald Reagan, even El Presidente Obama."

I think the point is painfully obvious here, and has been for some time: The war on drugs is an utter and undeniable failure in its present state. No propaganda trick or mental gymnastics will convince the thinking American otherwise. At this point, it's not even a matter if whether common sense will prevail, but it's a matter of when. For a president who has touted his support of "common sense gun laws," he has shown a remarkably stale and bullheaded regard for common sense drug laws.

That said, let it be known that the thinking American public has more important things on their mind than college or high school kids smoking pot. For that matter, we've got more important things on our minds than college or high school-aged Mexican kids smoking pot.

We don't care.

Solve a real problem.

Use your fucking head, Barry.