Drug Addiction and The Law
Well here we are again!
This morning I wish to talk about another aspect of “human rights”. Our individual right to abuse our own bodies with known harmful substances is today’s concern.
We are in fact physically and spiritually related to every other creature, plant as well as animal. This means that we are responsible to others in our environment. What we do to ourselves, at least in some small way, we do to others.
Over many generations of human growth, biologists and botanist as well as health scientists have discovered that certain forms of plant life are beneficial as food while others are quite detrimental, even poisonous to human tissue and organisms. Some of these poisonous plants have been found, when used in controlled ways, prescribed by qualified authorities to act in a curative manner for certain illnesses. Human beings are parts of Nature, the world around us and so help to form our environment. In a similar way each of us helps to form the other person’s environment. A well-nourished body produced by the ingestion of the right amounts of life giving food derived from our environment, makes for a healthy, happy (satisfied) person. However, in many environments, in our civilization, there are millions of people deprived of this life-giving food. Some of them have found that the partaking of these “drugs” has in some way relieved them of their feeling of hunger. To these unfortunate people, the use of these “drugs” could soon become an unsatisfying habit, an addiction.
In our world of “money” and “business”, the activity of producing these “substances” is considered to be, a very lucrative business. One person’s craving soon becomes another person’s business. Although if small amounts of these “drug”-producing plants may be necessary for use in the field of medicine, is there then any reason why we should not restrict the growing of these plants to medical uses only?
In our world where “Free Enterprise” and the making of money is a necessity of life, as well as a way of life, it is very difficult, without the interference of the heavy hand of law enforcement to make and to enforce these necessary restrictions. As long as there is big business involved in Drug trafficking, just so long will there be a steady increase in drug addictions.
The permanent solution to this health-destroying addiction is to refrain from punishing the user and concurrently making it unnecessary for the drug traffickers to engage in these businesses, as their way of life. It then becomes the responsibility of drug treatment centers to help restore health to the addicted persons. Finally, we must place the blame wholly on the greatest of all perpetrators of “crimes against humanity”, our hitherto untouchable “Money Price System”, supported and abetted by “Party Politics”.
However, we do need a new method designed to facilitate a fair and equal distribution of the goods and services that can be produced by our many Industries. We do need the politics of the people, by the people to serve the people as and when deemed necessary, in each of the several geographic areas.
In closing, I refer you to my “View Twenty-five”- above.
From the Back Forty:
Timothy Haystubble (Grass Roots Philosopher)