The New Star Spangled Banner, The Black, White and Gray

Our Mentality: When Black is White
Quote: War is Peace. Freedom is Slavery. Ignorance is Strength. George Orwell 1984

What’s wrong? What’s right? There are so many complexities in the current American system that it is really hard to determine when something can be simply classified as wrong or right. Let’s take one of the hot button issues and break it down.

The legalization of marijuana:

The base issue at the bottom of the stack after all the medical reports, tax projections, wasted DEA money complaints from both sides is:

“How are we raising children that feel the need to dull or alter their perception of reality in any manner? How come they can’t properly cope with and understand the reality that they are living in?”

These questions are rarely asked in any debate about the issue because it gets to the core of the problem that drug use (in any form) really isn’t about the drug but the escape from reality that it induces (Painkillers, Hallucinogens, Downers, Uppers, ect…). Until we start to deal with the issues that even tempt people to try drugs all the other assorted issues are moot until that’s dealt with.

This leads back to my point, if we are really looking at a derivative issue which can only be looked at in shades of gray and avoiding some type of core black and white issue we do ourselves a disservice by wasting resources with studies and reports on marijuana. Simply put if people weren’t caught up trying to ignore what bothers them and actively deal with hardships then the need for some type of facilitator to ignore hardships would disappear. If the disappearance of the hardship facilitator occurs most of the other side issues evaporate with them.

In effect a solution (Grey):
If the majority (99%+) of people decided they don’t want marijuana. (Raised with proper coping mechanisms)
Laws that ban marijuana completely are removed. (Growers/Purchasers license required)
Laws put in place for narcotic use similar to current drunk driving rules.
THC cap percentage put in place (marijuana’s THC levels are regulated to certain PPM counts and any marijuana with a greater PPM count than a set standard is still illegal.)
All health issues related to marijuana use/effect (years of actively inhaling ash can’t have a positive effect) are refused to be treated by tax funded medical services.
Publically available list of all growers/users posted on the internet. Laws prohibiting hiring/firing discrimination removed.

Issues rendered pointless:
Illegal drug trafficking
Money laundering
Weapons trade
Kidnappings
The need for constant workplace drug testing. You can look on a list and see if any employees or applicants are on it. Active discrimination allowed.
Additional Tax revenue

Overall Issue: The legalization of currently banned narcotics.
Black: The tax burden placed on the non-users of narcotics in the associated health and legal costs.
Gray: People should have the right to actively destroy their bodies in any method they feel like accepting.
White: Children are raised and feel no urge to even try narcotics or drugs of any type because they can deal with negative consequences and stressful situations.

The wrong and right of the issue isn’t the actual drug use but the reason behind the drug use. Let’s take alcohol since it’s been the drug of choice since man accidentally fermented some fruit. If you’re an alcoholic and use it unwisely it’s wrong as its results are destructive. If you have a few drinks a month with friends in a safe social setting that’s right and dandy in my book. The difference between “BEER WOOT! LETS GET DRUNK!” and “I chose to drink this glass of wine in celebration of a wonderful enjoyable week. Cheers.”

Good day and God Bless.
Taskmaster Cyning