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The drug wars are more harmful than drugs.

By Marks & Katz, LLC

Having finished high school before the D.A.R.E. program, how did I stay away from using illegal drugs other than ultimately smoking marijuana literally a handful of times? It did not hurt that I always found tobacco-cigarette smoking gross, and joint-smoking even uglier, since joints looked uglier than tobacco cigarettes, especially when smoked. I found the smell of marijuana smoke to be no picnic. Up until college graduation, good quality marijuana was imported, which raised questions both about how much blood figuratively was on the pot, and also how much impurities were inside, especially after the paraquat scandal.  Even uglier than images of people smoking marijuana joints were images of people cooking heroin on spoons, using their mouths to tie rubber hoses around their biceps to stick out their veins, and jabbing themselves with heroin-filled needles, particularly when I had the heebie-jeebies about needles until I started donating blood in high school...continue to full post

Full post as published by Underdog on September 06, 2009 (boomark / email).