The Terrorism of the War on Drugs
The war on drugs has been an abysmal failure Bill Keller wrote in the New York Times, “We interrupt our coverage of the war on terrorism to check in with that other permanent conflict against a stateless enemy, the war on drugs.” What he did not say is that the United States government acts as a gigantic terrorist organization directing a campaign of terror against its own people, one that has fundamental ignorance and cruelty at heart. Ignorance of the magnitude of its destructive effects on society; cruel in its blindness to the added dimension of the massive human suffering and pain it causes. The War on Drugs has so changed societal conditions that rural counties, which were once places so safe that people left their doors unlocked, are now quite dangerous. This war has been nothing short of disastrous for civilization; it’s a war not based on any kind of sane rationality, no logical reason, no lines to differentiate between legal and illegal, between alcohol and lighter drugs like Marijuana. But in essence, no rationalization justifies what America is doing to people and their families in the name of fighting drugs. The U.S. government propaganda about the "war on drugs" disguises the fact that this is a war on people. In a civilized society, war is a response by the government to a military attack from a hostile power. In a civilized society, the government does not make war upon its own people. That
ordinary, decent Americans are subject to Interesting enough, much of the war on drugs has been centred on a considerably lighter drug than either tobacco or alcohol, a drug that is not known to be associated much with criminal behaviour, certainly not near as much as alcohol. Marijuana arrests have climbed to an incredible 700,000 a year, even though the use of the drug has not been reported to have increased significantly. The use of alcohol however, is related to approximately fifty percent of murders, rapes and robberies therefore the argument that the government is banning drugs other than alcohol in order to protect society is not valid. For many reasons many people believe that the War on Drugs is one of the great contemporary crimes against humanity; it certainly stands for injustice and a rip off of the Declaration of Independence and the American Bill of Rights. Year after year this war ruins more and more lives, and drives the U.S. further into the pit of social disaster. For the United States of America the War on Drugs is a source of enduring shame and infamy. The
medical establishment is the biggest pushes of drugs. What no one wants to say is that this is really all about money, power, and the right that a few people take upon themselves to define the nature of drugs that we all take or use in one way or another. On the surface its an issue between people who (responsibly or otherwise) choose to use drugs, whose use authoritarian governments actively discourage, and people who use drugs that are “officially” listed as legal even though they are disease and death causing drugs like alcohol and tobacco. All drugs are designed to alter human consciousness in one way or another and even Television can be seen as the biggest electronic drug in history for it certainly alters the consciousness of people who watch it immediately. There is hardly a soul who does not watch TV, drink, smoke cigarettes or pot, take hard drugs, or heavy or light subscription drugs for mood alteration, sleep or depression. Some would add sex as a drug and it is addicting when approached the ‘wrong’ way. Prostitution and pornography are the most obvious examples of sex used as a drug as is sexual abuse of children. There are perhaps a few people in the world who do none of the above but today they are as rare as saints. The overwhelming majority of human beings have a difficult time living in modern civilization without using and depending on at least one of the above drugs and if you want to consider religion as the opiate of the masses, you can see the extent of the problem. Today television has probably replaced religion as the number one opiate but few contemplate any war against the networks. Add gambling to the list and it’s complete unless you want to add food and how our addictions to it have created a big problem with obesity in some parts of the first world. The problems people have with drugs, substances and devices of one kind or another is not helped or addressed one iota by making them crimes. To say humans have a substance abuse problem is the understatement of history but the war on drugs does nothing to address that. It only makes the conditions worse in society driving up instead of reducing the need for people to depend on mood altering substances. When the background of society is tuned more to love, understanding, empathy and compassion there is less need to escape, less bad mood which is in need of artificial altering. Yet the United States Government throws out all wisdom and compassion and would rather build the worlds biggest jail system and fill them up with victims and prisoners in its war against drugs. The U.S. currently houses over 2 million people in its prisons, more per capita than any other country on the globe. Up to 60% of those are incarcerated for non-violent drug offences and an estimated 750,000 children in this country have a parent in prison, largely as a result of long sentences for drug crimes. Judges in the United States have dished out millions of years in prison time to non-violent drug law violators during this war on drugs with each year for each inmate costing the taxpayer about 25,000 dollars thus more than $30 billion is squandered annually by the government to fight a drug war that can never be won. Drugs were legal once upon a time, and back then they caused no real crime problem. Even Sigmund Freud himself used cocaine and that did not stop him from writing many books and laying the foundations for modern psychology. Making a drug illegal does create a deeper problem out of drugs, as does the active promotion of their use like the British did with Opium in China. There is simply no logic, for instance, in locking a 17-year-old girl away for 20 years for selling a half-ounce of cocaine. Cocaine is merely cocaine; a psychoactive substance-it is not, weapons grade plutonium or a biological or chemical weapon of mass destruction. For society to spend 500,000 dollars on such a girls punishment defies all reason and then some. It
is difficult to believe that the possession of an ounce Prohibition, for instance of alcohol, created an illegal black market whose great profits spawned gangsters like Al Capone and deadly "bathtub gin." Drug prohibition has done the same thing, funding criminal gangs, creating deadly super-concentrated drugs, and causing the crime rate to skyrocket even in once-peaceful rural areas. It is said today that the gangs now control the streets of Los Angeles and the people of Rio de Janeiro recently got a lesson in who can control its streets, a drug lord who sits comfortably behind bar pulled enough strings to paralyse the city for a day. Yet people support the increased megabucks prison construction over desperately needed reconstruction and expansion of our children's school systems, which is just one example where so much money could go. The people support the war not knowing its true cost. Prohibition (1920-1933 R.I.P.) was known as The Noble Experiment. The results of the experiment are clear: innocent people suffered; organized crime grew into an empire; the police, courts, and politicians became corrupt; disrespect for the law grew; and the per capita consumption of the prohibited substance — alcohol — increased dramatically, year by year, for the next thirteen years of this Noble Experiment, never to return to the pre-1920 levels. You would think that an experiment with such clear results would not need to be repeated; but the experiment is being repeated; it's going on today. Only the prohibited substances have changed. The results remain the same. Peter McWilliams Dr. John Beresford writes below about the difficulty of communicating honestly about the drug war and it is the same with many of the subjects found in World Psychology; and this is one of the main points and solutions to world problems in this book, communication and listening to what is being communicated. The "war on drugs" is in part a propaganda war, one that is designed to shut off all voices of opposition. The techniques of propaganda were first raised to an art by the Bolsheviks, and were refined and used by fascists of various colours from the 1930s in Europe to present-day America. Leonard Schapiro, writing of Stalin, said, “The true object of propaganda is neither to convince nor even to persuade, but to produce a uniform pattern of public utterance in which the first trace of unorthodox thought reveals itself as a jarring dissonance.” “Why do some people feel uncomfortable at the thought of talking about the War on Drugs? Probably because there are more pleasant things to talk about. Possibly because of an unreasonable fear that talking about the War on Drugs will put one in the spotlight, single one out for questioning by the police, or cause one's name to be entered on a back room database. Perhaps through fear of ostracism: talking about drugs in a frame of reference that leaves out words like "addict" and "narcotics" is like violating a powerful taboo. For example, don't expect a job with the Department of Justice if you are happy with the idea of medical marijuana, or don't think the idea of a "drug exception" to the Bill of Rights is a good one. People with a professional obligation to speak out on the War on Drugs tend to do so with an eye to politeness. Terms of a debate are set that are not likely to give offence. The aim is to sound reasonable, if at times mildly challenging, to guide debate in a direction that does not risk getting out of hand. Dr. John Beresford The moralistic drug war has overstuffed American prisons, left families fatherless, corrupted important parts of society, consumed vast quantities of law enforcement time and money, and led to crime and inner-city misery that even Bin Laden cannot dream of creating in the west. It is destroying society from the inside out while creating a powerful class of drug lords and drug runners whose money flow like rivers giving them power that people like them should not have in this world. And some people believe, for good reason, that the CIA has funded, at times, part of its overseas terrorist operations with drug money. If this were true it would make the drug war one of the worst hypocritical rip offs in history, an absolute embarrassment to the American government that it would never be able to live down if true and made public. Thought it is thought that no reputable journalist or publication would ever suggest that the US government, which claims to be leading the fight against the world drug trade, might have tolerated drug trafficking by its own employees, when one looks at the history of the CIA, it is not such a far fetched idea. The history of the drug trade in Central Asia is intimately related to the CIA's covert operations. Prior to the Soviet-Afghan war, opium production in Afghanistan and Pakistan was directed to small regional markets. There was no local production of heroin. In this regard, Alfred McCoy's study confirms that within two years of the onslaught of the CIA operation in Afghanistan, "the Pakistan-Afghanistan borderlands became the world's top heroin producer, supplying 60 percent of U.S. demand. In Pakistan, the heroin-addict population went from near zero in 1979... to 1.2 million by 1985 -- a much steeper rise than in any other nation". Michel Chossudovsky Professor of Economics, University of Ottawa The Presbyterian Church (USA), the Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations, the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends and the Progressive Jewish Alliance are among the groups that have lent their support to a call by the National Coalition for Effective Drug Policies to redirect efforts to curtail drug use. These organizations all make clear that their opposition to current drug policy is based not on support for drug use, but out of a belief that the war on drugs has done more harm than good and that it is essentially immoral. "The war on drugs affects our society in so many negative ways," Universal Unitarians for Drug Policy Reform executive director Charles Thomas said. "We believe underlying it all is an immoral approach to dealing with a health problem." The statement also calls for mental health treatment and broader social services to deal with "the underlying causes of addiction." This is a very polite way of saying that the war on drugs boarders on the criminal yet the fact remains that most ‘moral’ people believe all immorality should be made a crime. Christians believe that drugs are immoral the same way the Moslems believe alcohol is though it is not said explicitly in the bible. The US Surgeon General, Everett Koop, testified, "when we are pleading with foreign governments to stop the flow of cocaine, it is the height of hypocrisy for the United States to export tobacco." He added, "years from now, our nation will look back on this application of free trade policy and find it scandalous." The epidemic of violence that plagues the US is one direct result of making illegal drugs the most profitable commodity on earth. Joseph McNamara, former Police Chief of Kansas City said, “The Drug War cannot stand the light of day. It will collapse as quickly as the Vietnam War, as soon as people find out what's really going on.” Although the use of psychoactive drugs has risks the "war on drugs" has caused far more harm than drugs themselves. Almost everyone acknowledges that New York's merciless and failed Rockefeller drug laws are cruel and almost everyone agrees that diverting drug users into treatment is much better than consigning them to prison. Yet some people in the federal government were certainly happy when moderation of drug laws were rejected in recent state referendums. Some of the more sane and human approaches to dealing with marijuana is to remove criminal penalties for possession, use (recreational or medicinal) and cultivation of small amounts, but not to legalize sale. “It's silly and costly to treat people as outlaws for enjoying a drug (marijuana) that is roughly as addictive as caffeine and far less destructive than tobacco or alcohol,” said Bill Keller yet the rationalizations run thick and not that much different in kind or quality than those Bin Laden would use to justify his champagne of terror. The administration, the same one that is so hell bent on liberating the world from terrorists would rather “send in SWAT teams to arrest people in wheelchairs, cut off student loans for kids with pot convictions, threaten doctors who recommend pot to cancer or AIDS patients” continued Keller. Worse is the increase in police brutality and violence. An important question that needs asking is, what is the functional difference between random street crime and methodical police crime? Doubtless, violent crime requires vigorous suppression, but on the other hand, is police brutality and the terrorism of civil populations any less deserving of such suppression? The policy of treating drug abuse as a criminal issue has side consequences that are cruel. For example the war on drugs is responsible for much of the spread of HIV and AIDS, because it bans needle exchange programs. How is it that from religious morality, which thinks that drug use is inherently immoral, we get an immoral drug war that leads, among other things, to a deadly epidemic spreading even faster? It defies intelligence to make sense out of the drug war because it is so suicidal to society. We assume it to be right and true just because it is law just as we are supposed to assume that what is written in our bibles is right and true. Law fundamentalism is just as bad as any other. Religious fundamentalism was never meant to be logical but law is supposed to be. What is society really concerned with in its draconian champagne against a light substance like marijuana? Are we really concerned with the health and welfare of human souls? Part of the hidden problem is that any major revision of the government's prohibitionist position would require it to admit it has been wrong all these years, that it has in effect lied to the people while claiming to provide reliable information. You might as well wait for the Pope to denunciate Christ or tell the public that he was really married to the lady Mary Magdalene. Drug
policies were doing more harm to our kids than the drugs themselves. In a freedom loving society our most basic property is our bodies, minds and souls. No government has the right over these aspects of being and we have the inalienable right to use our bodies and our minds as we wish, even if it harms us, just so long as we do not harm others or their property. The philosophies against drugs like marijuana are bankrupt because they assume it and “other” selected drugs are wrong and bad, and “other,” more lethal and dangerous are “protected” under the law. When it comes to marijuana ‘reefer madness’ is where it all started back in the thirties. But altering consciousness is a very human trait and people choose to do that all the time, one way or another. This can be done in a positive sense, with consciousness applied as native people have done for ages, or it can be an escape from reality in a way that drags a person down. A lot depends on the person and their motives yet a lot depends on the substance. Heroin or crack cocaine, for instance, cannot and has never been used by anyone in a positive sense where marijuana and even LSD can be. Certain drugs are incredibly toxic and dangerous others are quite benign. Present laws make no allowance at all for the quality of a substance and its actual effect on people meaning the laws were never formulated with people in mind. If so alcohol and tobacco would be outlawed along with safer and less addictive drugs like marijuana and even coffee perhaps. It is a bitter irony that the war divides the world of drugs along irrational lines criminalizing natural and less harmful substances while it ignores legal drugs such as nicotine, alcohol, Valium and Prozac, just to mention a few. If we were to try to imagine a government trying to ban “all” drugs we can begin to imagine the insanity of mind of present attempts to ban and punish people severely for the use of just a ‘selected’ few. Millions of us who sampled the psychedelics in the 1960s experienced profound, life-changing spiritual and philosophical revelations that were of incomparable personal value. These experiences paralleled discoveries made with the aid of sacramental vegetable products by indigenous peoples from all parts of the world since ancient times, discoveries that are enshrined in the sacred scriptures and spiritual traditions of many of the world’s religions. The "legal" persecution of those of us who freely choose to follow this ancient and honourable spiritual path, the yoga of light-containing herbs, is ethically indistinguishable from the persecution of witches and heretics, or the persecution of early Christians by the Roman state. Whether or not the use of sacramental vegetable products meets with the approval of the civil authorities, or anyone else, it is a personal matter that clearly deserves the protection of the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which promises that the "free exercise of religion" will not be abridged. Dale R. Gowin The drug warriors have established and maintained a national consensus that American must become free of drug use. By accepting an impossible goal, a goal not founded in logic or reason, one hypocritical in its fundamental creation, it becomes destructive to the very fabric of society. To offer a champagne or war against drugs with the impossible goal of creating a drug free society, when the very words lie because drugs like alcohol and tobacco are being excluded from the “drug” list passes the borders of clinical insanity. The point is that a "Drug Free America" has no basis in reality; it’s a delusion of fantastic magnitude and thus, in the name of this insanity becomes a campaigned of terrorism unbelievable in magnitude. The drug warriors are terrorists yet they do not know that and neither did the Franciscan monks during the Inquisition. Clinical insanity is like that; the patient is the last one to understand how sick he or she is. The last thing the world needs is a bunch of lunatics leading the world. Part of this insanity is based in deeper fundamentalisms handed over by Christianity and the morality its followers profess. Yet that does not answer it all for greed for power and wealth have perhaps dominated behind the scenes more than we can believe all along. The
informed use of entheogenic, consciousness-enhancing plants Part of the insanity of this all is the injustice. People naturally know what justice is, and the difference between justice and injustice. Picture a child. Do something unfair to the child, and you hear about it. The child knows that you have been unjust. The sense of justice is inborn. We could not function as a social species if it were not. This feeling for justice is the nature of the heart that is open in children, but obviously closes in adults who get too serious about life. There is no heart in the war against drugs; there is no sanity. There is never any sanity in the abandonment of empathy and compassion and for sure when justice is abandoned in the name of law and justice we have a big time betrayal of virtue. “Any support for the decriminalisation of drug usage (not to mention any suggestion that some kinds of prohibited drugs may actually have potential benefit) will be received by the general public as an opinion obviously deranged, deriving clearly from someone of unsound mind (resulting, of course, as the propagandists would have us believe, from their prior drug usage),” said Patrick Callahan and this is part of the trap the drug warriors have laid for society yet it is worse in its lacking of intelligence then Islamic or Christian religious fanatics insisting on us converting to their one and only true religion. Meaning its folly and utter ignorance is visible for what these people are really saying is drink and smoke up to your hearts delight, join us and take delight in our ‘legal’ drugs that surely are the way to all that is right in the world. It would probably be interesting to look at the unofficial attitudes in Islam to substances like hashish and marijuana, we know Bin Laden’s and other Moslem fundamentalist attitudes toward alcohol. Perhaps we have to add one more thing to the list of what will tear the world apart. The first world is already tearing itself apart in its war on the right to tell others which way or which substance is ok to use to change ones consciousness on demand. That is what a drug is or does, in some sense a lazy persons answer to meditation that also does the same thing. It is not moral that individuals who seek to widen their experience and knowledge by the use of psychedelics, or simply use marijuana to relax run the risk of spending years locked away in prison. This is religious persecution, and is as loathsome as all the other religious persecutions known to history. In this regard it is important to remember that: 97
percent of American politicians There are people, many people, who have had their lives shattered not because their drug use was out of control, but because of their arrest for drug use. The moment it becomes a legal problem, and a person is arrested, any personal problem takes on a totally new dimension, one that does not help treatment if treatment is in fact needed. To assume a person needs treatment for the smoking of marijuana (and even other stronger substances) used in moderation is like assuming that everyone who takes a drink and smokes tobacco and watches TV needs the same. When we have personal problems it is ourselves that have to decide to get medical treatment unless we are hurting other people with our problems, then it becomes a social issue where some kind of just consequence must be applied. It seems that some people pretend to operate on the principle that if something is harmful to people, then it is the responsibility of the government to outlaw that product or service in order to protect both individuals and society. That is the original reason the government prohibited alcohol, and that is the reason there is drug prohibition yet for some reason this just does not work out as prohibition showed us as does the continuing war on drugs. It is impossible for any government to take away that responsibility that comes from within and with it the ability and necessity to learn from ones own mistakes. In the end government has to give people their freedom as long as that freedom does not infringe on any one else’s. Meaning we need to be free but are never free to hurt others. And this is the moral bankruptcy of Christian based America that has lost this sense of freedom, which its founding fathers dreamed of for their children. But it is no wonder for Christianity never gave its followers the freedom to think for themselves, it has always been a religion of blind belief and thus a top down authoritative discipline. The paternalistic, dictatorial, hypocritical and corrupt government-military-corporate-police complex has taken the place of the Popes and Cardinals of Rome. People are still playing the same game for people have not really changed. Some people only feel secure when the ‘truth’ is handed to them and others only feel secure in making sure it is handed down even if it has to be with a violent and torturous hand. Many
Americans suffer from a very serious case It should be clear from the analogy that Johnson is drawing here that we are dealing with terrorism in the war against drugs, terrorist tactics and terrorist morality. There is a huge difference between suicide, and other self-inflicting hurts we cause ourselves, and terrorism. We have to have a right to hurt ourselves. The alternative is to surrender our humanity. What we do not have the right to do is hurt others, which is what terrorists seek with a passion to do. Over
200,000 prisoners of the Drug War in the State of California alone — victims of a
vicious and depraved pogrom occurring right under the noses of the citizens, most of whom
are willing to look the other way, like the 'good Germans' of the 1930s. As regards
state persecution of minorities there is no difference between sending a person to prison
for smoking pot and sending a person to a labor camp for being a member of a group which
lights candles in memory of deceased relatives on Friday evenings. In both cases the
imprisonment is done by Nazis or those with the mentality of Nazis. There are many people with very strong feelings about this war on drugs and yet their voices are gagged in open society. Yet we must listen to such voices and understand their use of strong words and analogies that capture just a fraction of the real feelings and the real pain and hurt that people who suffer under the yoke of injustice feel. Terrorism is about an agony of soul, it produces a scream that sometimes can and is heard for a lifetime. This book is about this scream as it is about terrorism, war and violence which all combine to destroy what is good in humanity. This book offers up the tears and the screams hoping that at some last minute that there will be a change of heart in the masses who will awaken in the night and take those screams to heart. If we are going to judge a man by the drugs he uses then who is to cast the first stone, who is so pure and free from all substance use that he is able and capable of doing this? Christian America is not really Christian at all for it has lost even the most rudimentary comprehension of Christ’s basic teachings. Not only have the Christian and drug warriors cast down all morality, they have cast out their own souls by closing their hearts to all reason, caring, love and compassion. Fortunately for them they have many legal substances to drug out any feelings of guilt and remorse, they can take away their pain by cutting out their own hearts while they drink a toast to their good fortune and good moral way of life. Most of the world is into drugs of one kind or another in a big way and some of the worlds largest industries are built around their manufacture and distribution. Even Coca Cola can be seen as a drug, and one of the most successful and enjoyable ones at that. This entire war and the terrorism that comes with it is not about human consumption of drugs. It is about something else obviously for the bulk of all drugs produced and consumed are protected under the law and religion of capitalism. Imagine a world where you were arrested for downing a coke and imprisoned for selling it and you can imagine how some people see the war on drugs. There is the moral question of making money with the manufacture and sale of anything that is hurtful to human health but we have not evolved yet as a race to comfortably address these issues with moral dignity. It is up to the individual whether or not to sip their coffee, guzzle their beer, or drink their coke. Yes we are controlling where people smoke their butts because that smoke flows into other people’s lungs. We try unsuccessfully to control drinking and driving for instance because again what one does to themselves in getting drunk can hurt and kill others on the road. Humanity has many problems and we have a long way to go in our evolution as a race, of this there is no doubt. But there is nothing evolutionary about terrorism and nothing evolutionary about war, any kind of war. Criminalizing certain kinds of drugs and not others is irrational and thus the war on drugs was lost before it even began. We have an incredible health problem in the world, a mental health problem and other problems that do need treatment. What the leaders of the world do not know or understand is that they are the first ones who should line up at the clinic door. Or perhaps they would rather stay at home and apply to themselves a course in self-healing. Volume two of World Psychology is such a course; it is about The Psychology of the Heart, the world of feelings and soul. We can “all” use more heart; more love, compassion and understanding in our lives but some people need that much more than others. If I were of the moral governing Christian mold probably I would be recommending life imprisonment for many people in the world of government for their crimes against humanity. Yet compassion forces me to understand that it is all in reality an ignorance of the heart and its ways and as such I have developed the HeartHealth system instead of a new international penitentiary system. The problem is that you cannot force people into it. World Psychology recognizes humanity itself as a patient, not just certain selected abnormal individual in it. It tries to speak to the whole, which is difficult considering how different one part is from another. It is in the heart where we begin to find our basic similarities and it is with heart that we need to communicate and act in relationship with our fellow man. In the end Christianity has not taught these vital lessons and by default Islamic extremists are now undertaking the job of trying to impart morality to the west though violence and terrorism. When we do not learn our lessons the easy way they tend to come from hard corners. Humanity faces a difficult road this century and the obstacles do seem higher than Mount Everest. But bold and brave people who do not give up in poor spirit climb those slopes every year. World Psychology is about a war to end all wars including the war against drugs and that one against violent terrorism using “legal” violence as a tool. The war to end all wars will be fought with our mouths, pens and keyboards, in public halls both virtual and face-to-face. It needs to be fought in every town and village, even in every family. We will create a new climate on earth when we find the courage to really mix the extremes in the light of open and honest communication and listening. Conflict resolution is another word phrase or meaning of communication and listening and it is the most urgent need of humanity. The more we communicate and listen the less others and we will need to turn to violence as a solution to all the gaps and walls to communication. But all of this implies that we need to change in some deep place inside of our being. It implies looking at our minds honestly and discovering all the errors of its ways. The heart is the answer as we shall see in HeartHealth and that story will then flow into volume three of World Psychology, The Heart of Sex. Sexuality is a vast subject and takes us down below the carpet of religion, into a heaven, which we can create together, or a hell that will surely rip our souls apart. Sexuality takes us into the deepest intimate corners of our souls, into our greatest vulnerabilities, and often into pools of enormous suffering. Perhaps the most fundamental terrorism is sexual in nature and religion does a good job of starting this ball rolling. The other most fundamental type of terrorism happens inside the family and this will be addressed in volume four called The Marriage of Souls, The Second Coming of Pure Love. The family is the basic unit of society and in many places in the world it is the most dangerous place. Yet it is with this pure love that this fourth volume talks about that we will find the stuff with which we can win our final war. I am afraid we have much work to do and nothing less will do. Pure love does not come easily to anyone, not even to a saint. In the final analysis we will have to see that anything less then pure love is the terror we really face on earth and thus the real war is inside of ourselves to bring this love back into our hearts and souls. We can do this alone, like is suggested in HeartHealth, and we can and do need to do this in social action and interaction using communication and our open ears as our most powerful spiritual and psychological tool. I am afraid that even the finding of pure love is not the end of the story for in the finding begins the long process of the communication and sharing of that love and the even longer process of getting others into it. That love needs to be brought into every dark corner; it needs to upturn every stone that blocks its path.
The social construction of drug debatesDavid Dingelstad, Richard Gosden, Brian Martin and Nickolas VakasDepartment of Science and Technology Studies http://health.consumercide.com/socialcon_drugdeb.html
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