The War on Drugs
I was always against the Drug War. I am not for sure when it started, except for when it became more of a focal point for my life my senior year in high school when I took a Sociology class and chose the “War on Marijuana” as my topic for a project. This resulted in a lot of research. I was already somewhat of a stoner by then, but I never did understand how a plant could be the topic of such controversy, especially the one plant that had so many industrial purposes, not to mention the medicinal purposes and the lack of recreational reasons that a drug could be illegal. I have been through a lot this year, and I probably didn’t mention it in my last blog post, but I am a first-time felon married to a man who has his third felonies. I got my first felony through a life of drug-dealing that luckily resulted in a simple possession of narcotics. Oxycontin, to be more precise. I put my two wonderful, beautiful, intelligent children through not only a raid on our home by the so-called “authorities,” but we were also robbed at gunpoint several months before that, all because of the drug-dealing lifestyle that my husband and I were involved in. All the same, I married a man who found that selling drugs was easier than making a living the old-fashioned way, by working hard, so eventually, we found that the drug war rests for no one. I do not blame the police officers that were doing their jobs at the time of the raid on my home, even though the trauma that was inflicted upon my children will take years to correct, if it can be corrected in the least amount. However, I do blame the lawmakers and those that support them. For years, I have been the constituent that writes to the lawmakers and suggests better ways to do things and laws to vote for or against. Not once have I had any favorable feedback on this or other issues that I feel important. This only goes to show that no lawmaker has the interests of the constituents or the greater good at heart. I may be a bit hasty in the previous statement of not a single lawmaker having the interests of the consituents/greater good at heart. I do respect and appreciate Ron Paul for his contributions to the liberty movement, as well as his son Rand, Adam Kokesh, and even Peter Schiff. However, I do not think that any sort of politics are the answer to any problems. I used to be a Democrat, then a Republican, then a Libertarian, but I realized that all parties serve but one purpose. That purpose is yet still to allow government to have some control over the lives and liberty of the people. My question is: how can any liberty be attained with government involved? Better yet, how does the government fill its purpose in stopping the infringement on the natural rights of human beings? This goes far beyond religion or politics, because I think that the majority of the people in the world do have much more good than evil and will choose to do good because of many reasons including the feelings that doing good gives a person. It is all about free-will. Either you have it or you do not. Without free will, there is no life, and the moment we cease to learn, we cease to live. So, in essence, any mistake we make is only bad if we do not learn from it. If we do not have the freedom to choose our own paths, no matter where they lead, and the freedom to accept the consequences for our actions, how can that be considered freedom?
