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While infants play in Washington, the Iranian people continue to suffer.

Seems to be an international trend, I blog on Burma , the talk goes on and on, each week more talk, action is a philosophy, but philosophy isn’t action. ( yes I just made that up)

I’ve heard it asserted that the only reason people don’t do drugs all the time is religion. After all, what does it really matter if you get happy for a short while before dying young? If life has no meaning, why not?

If this theory is true, it doesn’t bode very well for the future of Islam.

I’m as much in favor of having the American government fix the world’s problems as the next guy, but how realistic is it? Under Bush II we’ve made two attempts to fix two of the world’s most brutal horrible dictatorships and we’ve managed to earn the permanent rancor of most of the world and half of our own population in the process.

“Okay, give up? Answer here. And it’s not just for the profits…. How do you stop a revolution? Get everyone stoned.)”

Amazing how the Left/Democrat share tactics!

See GatewayPundit’s great posts on the East

St. Louis vote buying. And remember the ACT

organized who was paying her registrations collectors in crack.

Dumb them down so they only understand “bumper

sticker” messages, keep them poor and stupid so

they are victims, keep their dealers and the

gangs out of jail by fighting long sentences,

and to provide jobs for all the social “science”

grads,and best of all throw in “Moral Relativity”,

have Hollywood show how harmless and fun is a

little weed, a little blow.

The left and the Islamists have a lot in common,

this is just another point.

Has anyone every released studies of illegal drug use by the Left vs the Right. (Martini’s and

Mint Juleps are not illegal drugs!)

Once your hooked politics takes a back seat to scoring your next fix. Really hard to keep a revolution going when all of your followers are going cold turkey because the Moslem Maniac’s are withholding your heroin. This bit of chicanery really makes the old Marxian adage “religion is the opiate of the people” really strike home.

WichitaBoy — Don’t get your hopes up. This country ALWAYS had that rancor of half its population, at least since the 60’s. Now they’r pushing 50 and tooling around in their Benzes and Navigators gnashing their teeth over how much they despise this country and it’s starting to look a little unsightly, frankly.

Wichita Boy:

I don’t think we can solve the world’s problems, but I do think we can give some people hope.

As for the world’s rancor, what is new?

The odd thing is our socalled standing in the Muslim world is by all accounts better than it was a few years ago. It seems the some of the folks that are not stoned are beginning to wonder if there is more to life than being blown up.

As for the Europeans, they are a lost cause. They had their chance and other than two world wars and a destroyed Africa I fail to see what they have to brag about.

I remember reading something back when the Taliban were around to the effect that they were selling a lot of heroin to Iran even then.

Maybe the authorities should just use a fungus on all those poppies and destroy the whole crop.

Let them all go cold turkey.

The quote is a bit unfair to Dr Leary in this context, perhaps? Leary was referring to psychedelic drugs with the “Turn on, tune in”; opiates “turn off, tune out”. The dropping out bit however, they do have in common…

As for causing them all to go cold turkey–all the mullahs would have to do is tell them that the Americans in Iraq and Afganistan have their heroin piled up in warehouses, creating a spontaneous civilian invasion in both directions!

I do find it interesting that just like the U.S., Iran pretends to wage a “War on Drugs” while their economy doesn’t create sufficient jobs for its people.

Stewart, 4.9 percent unemployment not low enough for ya, huh?

The way to correct unemployment among teens (where the rate is much higher) is to let them compete by price, that is, to eliminate minimum wage laws. Not likely though.

This might explain an upsurge in use of Heroin in Iran.

A lot of people being abused by the government.

Typically war zones and repressive regimes create a lot of PTSD. In the general human population about 20% are susceptable to long term PTSD. Conditions in the Iraq war zone for instance are such that 18% of returning soldiers have long term PTSD problems. The more severe the trauma the stronger the drugs needed to counteract it.

You can get some idea of how severe conditions are in Iran by the percentage of folks who are long term heroin users. In America in the generalpopulation about 2% are heroin users. A rate that has been fairly steady for 100 years.

Alcohol consumption can be another marker.

In early America alcohol consumption was very high. The per capita use declined very significantly from 1800 to 1900 as economic and social conditions improved.

What I wrote above is a pretty good indictor of why the drug war can never be a success. Drugs are a symptom not a cause.

In addition persecuting the traumatized is morally banckrupt.

Terrye,

I think it is wrong to deprive people in need of relief of their medicine unless we also can relieve them of their pain. The do no harm principle.

In any case it doesn’t work. We have been at it in this country for over 90 years. Success rate? Zero. Oh we can bust sellers. Which is another way of saying we can create market openings for new entrants. We can jail users (who just get their supplies in jail).

What does work is substituting less harmful drugs (like pot) for more harmful ones like alcohol, tobacco, and heroin. In fact such substitution therapy (using cannabis extract) was common in the early 1900s.

BTW tobacco is an anti-depressant. In other words we don’t have a tobacco problem. We have a depression problem.