People often ask the question, "Should drugs be legalised in Australia/ the U.S./ U.K etc. The simple fact of the matter is that drugs are already legal in these countries (Government choice of drugs, that is), while individual and collective drug choice and choice of drug culture has a policy of apartheid discrimination (a policy of social segregation upon individual and collective coverings defined by differential and/or preferrential treatment). This dangerous policy is the true heart of the matter, when it comes to drugs.
Thanks to this policy, and those who wield it, drugs & drug cultures have been separated under criteria's of bias, hatred, bigotry, persecution and other abusive tactics that suppress human rights, dignities and freedoms; that suppress accurate and factual information and education about all drugs ie their criteria of harm ((mortality, morbidity, toxicity, addictiveness and relationship with real crime), efficacy and safety. These policies have helped create wars and drug empires on both sides of the licit/illicit divide, and they are both wielding the same criteria - the supremacy of their choices, the eradication of those they don't agree with and America's/ Australia's/ U.K's favourite addiction, the quest for the almighty dollar!
This policy creates a multitude of suffering for the people under its yoke, it creates a vehicle where hate crimes and violation reign supreme, it gives those who wield it power of dominion and control over those who it is wielded against, and if they try to fight for their human rights, they and their culture and their choices get deemed 'worthy' of persecution and eradication, while those wielding the policy have their rights, cultures and choices deemed 'worthy' of advocation and praise. If psychoactive substances are addictive, then apartheid discrimination, as a mentality, must be a million times more addictive than crack cocaine or ethanol (the drug that people call a 'drink').
The only way to get fairness, justice, understanding, education and information out there to all cultures, groups and individuals equally, is to remove the apartheid discrimination policy. History has proven just how dangerous and abusive this policy is. Hitler wielded it against the Jews, Gypsies, Trade Unionists, the Disabled, Priests and anyone who was his political opposition and we all know how that turned out. No matter what subject matter this policy is wielded against, it destroys anything it comes into contact with. (It has also been wielded at one time or another against things we take for granted these days e.g. alcohol, coffee, tea, tomatoes, potatoes, books, music, kilts, homosexuality, single parenthood etc. over the years)
Here in Australia this policy does a multitude of damage and it is the same worldwide. We have those who tell us to "say no to drugs", wielding the apartheid discrimination policy to state, "Say yes to our drugs, our drug dealers, our drug pushers, our drug traffickers, our drug cartels, our drug lords and our drug empires, while we wipe out our competition..which just happens to be another's choice!" Whether religious apartheid, cultural apartheid, drug apartheid, skin apartheid, sexual apartheid, human descent apartheid (xenophobia)or other forms, this dangerous policy has been wielded throughout history and will continue to be wielded by those addicted to this policy until people realize and accept that it is not the choice of subject matter, but the choice to respectfully use, or disrespectfully abuse that particular choice of subject matter that is the real problem.
Apartheidists (and we see this regularly with drug apartheidists) love blurring the lines between use (benefit) and abuse (the perversion of benefit). Legal drug lords, backed by Governments, kill tens of thousands more than all the so-called illicits put together, yet unless the apartheid brand 'illicit' is put on the drug, no-one seems to care. We lost one of our boys (Heath Ledger) in the U.S. thanks to the abuse of buzzword 'legal' drugs, yet after the media had a great 'jumping to conclusions' bash against the myth that he died from illicits, once they found out he died from buzzword 'licit' drugs, it was swept away and had a totally new light placed on it....an unfortunate accident! Legal dead is still dead. Legal hospitalisation is still hospitalisation. Legal side effects, whether medical or social, are still side effects. An Australian Journalist, Alison Cameron, stated, "Linking alcohol with the word drugs is too scary politically".
This statement shows apartheid for exactly what it is, because if people simply understood that we have recreational and medicinal psychoactive drug users, abusers and addicts writing policies that get disguised as law and justice, and then wielded with the slogans, "Say no to drugs", "Drugs are bad", "No tolerance on drugs", "No drugs in sport" ( in our country drug cartels OWN sport). We also have a slogan. It's called Hypocrisy in Democracy.
For what is hypocrisy and a hypocrite? An act and an actor, and as anyone can blatantly see, selective prohibition/ the 'our drugs all good, your drugs all bad' policy is nothing but an act and a sham. Law enforcement are slowly starting to understand this and are starting to realize just how dangerous and destructive an apartheid policy in regards to drugs can be. It wastes time, energy, money, human life, and separates families, creates division (apartheid discrimination is a divide and conquor mentality), and unleashed war not only on others abroad but on those at home as well. This W.A.R. (Wasting Australian Resources) ties up our court systems, makes a 'gun and badge gang' out of our police, turns Governments against their own people and people against their Governments, and is a true poison, a true cancer if you will, on our society and civilisation in general. The band Guns 'n Roses once asked the question, "What's so civil about war, anyway?". They also stated in their song, 'Civil War' that, "I don't need your Civil War. It feeds the rich while it buries the poor".
Our streets are filled with homeless, the suffering, the destitute. They're filled with violence and destructive acts, yet Governments (while declaring war) state, "We haven't got the resources to help you, but we do have the resources to persecute you, punish you and declare war on you and your choices". Information and education is cheap and can be freely available, but for it to truly get through, we need to remove apartheid discrimination policies pertaining to drugs of choice and state simply, "A drug is a drug. Simple. All drugs can be beneficial when respectfully applied, and all drugs can be destructive when disrespectfully applied. Some drugs are more toxic than others (ie from cannabis/THC at 1:40,000 down to di-morphine/heroin at 1:6 and ethanol at 1:4). Just because a drug is 'legal' or 'illegal' does not make it better or worse than another drug of choice, or another drug culture of choice.
All the destructive things to do with drugs stem back directly to abuse and abusive policies. Abuse is the problem. Apartheid Discrimination is not the solution. Equal Respect and Equal Understanding are the solutions...what we, in Australia, call "the fair go for all", (even if our Governments and those in power don't believe in it).
04-06-2009, 01:31
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