Blogging for Freedom

John Walters, Bush's drug war bitch, released his federally funded survey on incidence of substance use among the youth of America.  Started 32 years ago as a Nixon Kissinger attempt to save the nation from the scourge of drugs - mainly marijuana - and used now to justify their continued War on People and the Constitution.

John Walters, ONDCP, actually said something like this, "There was a time, when some baby boomers (he actually used those words) tried to convince us that drugs are part an acceptable life style.  We have spent enormous enrgy correcting this attitude.

Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness?  Unless, of course, your lifestyle needs correcting by the government. 

The survey should be called "Substance use among American youth attending school", since the statistical base only included 4800 students in both private and public schools.

I checked the clock to see how long it would take John Walters, arch enemy of the peaceful plant, to mention marijuana.  One minute.  "Good news, marijuana use is down by 25%."

Even better news, he goes on, is that meth use by youth is down 50% since 2001.  Everyone, the police, the schools, the hospitals, the jails, the neighbors know that meth use is way up in the last five years!

When you throw quiet, peaceful stoners out of school and into jail, for simple posseion or attempting to conspire to possess a marijuana, these students conveniently drop out of their survey.

When kids start using meth, they very shortly drop out of school so I guess they just don't count anymore.

When they die from heroin or Oxycontin overdose, they stop being counted completely.

When college kids die from acute alcohol poisoning, our culture accepts that as a correct lifestyle?  "Ah, you know, just kids trying to have a little fun."

I also question the validity of the study's anonymous factor. What smart teenager these days hasn't learned to lie and keep quiete about their drug use. They've witnessed their firends and classmates being handcuffed, perp walked, thrown in jail, tried in court, maybe convicted and sent to prison for .... marijuana.  

John Walters, get a clue.  If domestic cannabis is one of the top US cash crops, someone's smoking it.   

Meth abuse is truly the scourge on our children, schools and communities and John Walters, Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, should be ashamed that meth and pharmaceutical abuse hasn't been their main focus.  You know, the drugs that actually kill kids.

I hold the Bush Administration, Karen Tandy, director of the DEA, and John Walters responsible for the meth plague in our beloved country.