Dope Pushers Brand Others Dopes

After our local newspaper, the Coffs Harbour Ethanol Drug Advocate, (explanation coming up), put out a discriminatory and prejudiced titled article called ‘Campaign to stop DOPES from smoking’ (consuming their drug of choice), I felt it was time to expose yet another example of highly blatant drug apartheid discrimination policy and belief being applied by those in power and the so-called ‘know’.

On 11^th April ‘07, the article read, ‘The NSW Government ……..

(correction….the ethanol, caffeine and nicotine drug sponsored and advocating Government)

……is launching a $600,000 advertising campaign in a bid to cut down the number of young students smoking cannabis. A report in 2004 said, ‘Almost 1 in 5 teenagers have tried Cannabis, but that figure was down from 1 in 3 in 1998’.

(Meanwhile, try to find kids who haven’t tried and/or are regular consumers of the drugs nicotine, ethanol and the first gateway drug of all, caffeine).

Health Minister Reba Meagher……….

(who sits on the board of one of the biggest drug cartels in the world - Big Pharma - who are directly and indirectly responsible for their product/drugs killing, hospitalising and causing sometimes horrendous side effects, to countless hundreds of thousands of people every year),

……..said. “The aim of the campaign was to reduce the number even further”.

(Meanwhile, when it comes to the FLOOD of buzzword ‘legal/licit’ pharmaceutical and recreational drugs, she isn’t trying to reduce that number - in fact how many people are?)

Reba Meagher continues: “There is still a high proportion of young people that try cannabis, and it’s important that we are able to educate them on the danger and the risk they are taking”.

So…education on ‘danger of risk’ is what is needed. Unfortunately she (and others) haven’t woken up to the fact that this is what is needed for ALL drugs, instead of just the ‘our drugs all good, your drugs all bad’ policy we have today.

Talking about education - or lack of it - how’s this for an uneducated statement, and one that is wielded with ignorance and abuse so much nowadays by those in ‘Power’ and in the so- called ‘Know’.

Webster’s Dictionary defines USE as: ‘a beneficial action or application’. In other words USE is something that benefits you and/or others’. So understand this…………………….

Ms Meagher continued, “The USE of any drug is a danger”.

(Really, Ms Meagher, I could have sworn the dis-respectful, un-beneficial application and/or action of any drug……ABUSE……is the real danger, and that goes for ALL drugs, whether buzzword ‘legal/licit’ or ‘illegal/illicit’).

Ms Meagher also stated that USE of Cannabis can precipitate mental illness in the short and long term.

(But Ms Meagher, haven’t statistics and studies proven that ABUSE of Cannabis -usually long term- and not use precipitates mental illness? And haven’t the same stats and studies proven that the abuse of ANY drug, whether legal or illegal, recreational or medicinal, can cause/set off/exacerbate mental illness and other problems, including neurological problems?

Didn’t Dr. Murkesh Haikerwal, of the AMA, personally state that “ANY drug, that acts on the brain, can have potential side effects“? Now, if this is true, then why do we have drug apartheid discrimination policies in our country? Why don’t we state the proven fact that ALL drugs can do damage when abused, and that there is a Criteria of Harm that governs all of them, and not just the ones advocated or discriminated against by those in Power?

David McGrath from NSW Health, said, “The Campaign aimed to prevent PEOPLE starting to smoke Cannabis”.

(Hang on….weren’t he supposed to be targeting KIDS with the consequences of drug abuse? And not becoming a servant of the legal drug cartels by preventing people from taking their individually chosen drug of choice when they are old enough (18) by Government standards, to do so?

Mr. McGrath continued, “…And to help regular users to stop smoking”. (Why isn’t he encouraging others to get off their drugs of choice - eth, nic, caff and Big Pharma dealt drugs?)

He said, “Teenagers attitudes towards drug taking needed to be changed”. (Well, mate, the ‘our drugs all good, your drugs all bad’ Policy really doesn’t help with the ‘I don’t give a damn what drug I abuse’ attitude.

He next showed the level of ignorance (which is ignoring the facts) with the following statement, “It’s important to challenge their perceptions that drug use is normal”.

(Good luck! Our Prime Minister, our Politicians, our Media, our Celebrities, our Sports and Sporting Personalities and our Legal Drug Cartels, all blatantly state by word and example that drug consumption is normal, and shows no real difference between use and abuse - it’s all consumption and it’s ‘all good’.

Meanwhile, to all you filthy ‘dopes’ out there, you ‘dickheads and losers’ - to coin their campaign - “you must get off your drugs and onto ours, or else suffer the consequences’ of drug apartheid.

David McGrath continued, “It’s important to change their perceptions that this will either make them cool or attractive”.

(I take it he doesn’t watch the FLOOD of ethanol and caffeine drug advertising and advocation. These two drugs have been made as ‘cool’ and ‘attractive’ as is humanly possible, and the abuse of them - not just the use - is now a proud and acceptable part of our culture, while denying everyone else their drug culture i.e. “James Squire, Australia’s first name in beer” vs “Sir Joseph Banks, Australia’s first name in Cannabis”. Or, when it comes to mascots, ‘Bundy Bear vs Kannabis Koala’.

David McGrath continued, “There’s physical, psychological and social consequences with Cannabis use”.

(Again showing ignorance. What this ‘intelligent’ member of the NSW Health Dept. should have stated is that, “There’s negative physical, psychological, and social consequences with ANY form of DRUG ABUSE!” And, instead of stating that “Cannabis use affects their capacity to work, capacity to play sport, capacity to build solid relationships etc“. he should have stated, “ANY form of DRUG ABUSE negatively affects their capacity to work, to play sport, to build solid relationships etc.”

Lastly, let’s finish off with a bit more apartheid. The article finished with the statement, “The advertising programme is part of the NSW Government’s $1.3 million Cannabis (mis)information Campaign. It will also include cinema advertising and posters at Bus Stops, as well as being displayed in magazines such as ‘Dolly’, ‘Girlfriend’ and ‘X-Box magazine’.

The questions remain though, 1) Will they do the cinema advertisement like they did with the last apartheid campaign by putting a highly discriminatory anti-cannabis ad in the middle of two buzzword ‘legal’ highly attractive drug ads? One for ethanol, and one for caffeine. And, just to be more discriminatory they followed it up with an anti-smoking ad - all displayed in an M15+ movie that regularly pushes R18 drugs.

As for posters at Bus Stops, why don’t they just show what they really mean by sticking an anti-cannabis poster side by side with a massive ‘Double Up” on ethanol drugs poster proudly displayed in the front window of the Woolworths’ Ethanol, Nicotine and Caffeine Drug cartels…..whoops, Woolworths FAMILY Supermarket. I get confused sometimes because they merge so well together.

Talking about ‘DOPES’. Next to this discriminatory newspaper article was a half page ethanol drug ad, telling people to buy ‘Black Douglas - 2 for $52’ or cans of Bacardi and Cola, as well as a statement telling people where to find their nearest ethanol drug dealer.

What I can’t understand is how my local newspaper, a blatant ethanol drug advocate (that pushes drugs and sport side by side, drugs and kids side by side, and has even stuck drug ads in the Family TV Guide) has the gall to call others ‘DOPES’ when Cannabis’ dopamine level is 125-175% dopamine and the drug ethanol’s dopamine level is between 175%-200%, and the other drug they flog (caffeine/tri-methyl-xanthine) is 300% dopamine level.

So, who’s taking dope - answer: we all are. Everyone on earth takes or does something that boosts their dopamine level. - and who’s advertising and advocating dope, while still calling people ‘dopes’ who choose to use another dopamine level drug other than the ones they advocate?

If David McGrath, Reba Meagher and others want to stop ‘DOPES’ from taking drugs, their next stop would be their own Fridge, cupboard, local hangout, even Parliament, never mind every Sport’s stadium or venue, and most supermarkets.

We could easily teach people in this country, whether the young, the middle-aged or the old, how to respect their drug of choice, how to gain the understanding about the negative and positive effects of any particular drug. We could easily restore the Criteria of Harm that governs all drugs and by doing so abolish the hate crime called Prohibition/Drug Apartheid Discrimination Policies. There’s a much easier way when it comes to drugs of choice, and that is………………

By the way, if anyone chooses not to take any drug of choice, (whether buzzwords licit or illicit), then we should respect them for their choice too and not call them wowsers, party poopers, boring and other discriminatory names/brands. We need to remove all this stereotyping, branding, discrimination and bias towards those that have different choices to oneself.

Different strains for different pains; different healings for different feelings; different tokes for different folks. (Medical cannabis statement).