When is it wise to change or turn direction when reality of the path you choose leads to a dead-end or abject failure?
I read a blog post written by a blogger who chose the name insanitybbytes22 for her blog post titled: Your Insane, in which she commented the following opinion:
“I’m living in a world plumb full of addiction, and telling me it’s a legit disease and calling it a mental health disorder, doesn’t make coping with the violence, unpredictability, and crime any easier. Let’s stop cherry coating it, addiction just stinks. It is ugly, destructive, and it kills.
The Purpose of This Post
Is to relate an ancient wisdom verse to this blogger’s comments and statement about the abject failure of the USA war on drugs.
King Solomon. “
If thou see the oppression of the poor, and violent perverting of judgment and justice in a province, marvel not at the matter: for he that is higher than the highest regarded; and there be higher than they. (Ecclesiastes 5:8
What’s My Point?
Or in other words, the only common certainty everyone in life will experience after being born is they will die. Some will be killed or make foolish choices t which in effect lead to their deaths sooner than average lifespans.
Others will by chance or luck in life become victims of the pandemic similar to Covid which reached a one million deaths recently in the USA spending in spite of the USA spending over a trillion dollars tin hopes to prevent or treat the victims.
Similar to the war on drugs which the USA declared 50 years ago, yet more people have died from drugs than Covid in the USA..
Add the incalculable amounts of dollars funding the war costs for policing and arrests, jail, and/or treatment of drug addicts, the numbers of both users and drug overdoses statistics continue to rise in the USA.
Many believe that the reasons why relate to higher ups and criminals who are somehow profiting from the war on drugs in a similar way arms manufactures profit during wars
Add that even the “higher ups of local communities in of States that approved laws to legalize recreational marijuana are now supposedly profiting on drugs which other government agencies studies warn are dangerous to health and will lead to early deaths.
Add that family members of drug addicts in a sense become victims similar as war victims.
Add that studies made of criminal’s state than 80 percent of all criminal motives are brought about when drug addicts commit the crimes to feed their addictions or were high on drugs when they committed a crime.
Add that many believe traffic deaths are increasing because drivers on drugs.
My point is both the ‘higher ups in both government and private industries, and voters need to discern the truth is the war on drugs is abject failure.
In My Opinion
The USA needs to change course of the present path of war on drugs same as when we pulled out of Vietnam, Afghanistan, etc., and other wars when it became apparent that all our efforts resulted in was an abject failure and waste of treasures along with the lives of both heroes and victims of wars.
The USA should make available the addictive drugs to any drug addict who agrees to accept outpatient treatment and advice from government to reduce the need to commit crimes to feed their drug addictions.
For drug addicts who refuse to help themselves end their addictions, they need to be jailed to prevent them from criminal acts to feed their habits to reduce crime.
While incarcerated, receive drugs and mental health counseling and treatment and learn a skill by being made to work in jail to produce products to pay for their incarceration costs.
For readers who may be concerned about costs and logic, consider that Drugs over time have killed or affected more people than Covid where the USA spent trillions to combat. And if in the future, as drug addicts commit less crime to feed the additions, the costs expended by policing drug dealers and addicts will decrease to justify the costs in the future…
In a previous post, I compared the present USA course or path we are on to what China experienced to overcome their Opium wars that led to additions of even greater numbers of addicts Ove time who according to the above wisdom verse serve to oppress not only the poor but millions of innocent victims of crimes related to drugs in the USA?
If Interested
Read the Source Links and comments below
You Decide
Do you believe there is a conspiracy by higher ups that has resulted in allowing the drugs to continue to flow into the USA by drug cartels?
Is the path the USA presently on similar to what China experiences int their history?
If so, how long and how many more victims of families of drug addicts, or crimes motivated for drugs, and deaths will be in the immediate future unless we change the present ‘insane; paths on what to do about recreational drugs in the USA?
Is it time for the USA to wise up and change paths instead of promoting recreational drugs to profit criminal organizations, gangs, drug cartels, and now even State government to profit at the expense of innocent victims?
Regards and goodwill blogging
Source Links
Previous Posts – Drugs
Insanitybytes – Your Insane
Rudy u Martinka 
Good post, Rudy. Thank you for the link. I think we should end the war on drugs or at least sharply change course. One problem with the government declaring war on social problems, is that it implies there is an enemy to declare war on in the first place. So the government are the good guys and the civilians are now the enemy??! The same is true of the “war on poverty.” The entire approach is off kilter and it is especially galling when you consider how many people in government actually profit off of drugs and addiction, both legally and illegally.
Here where I live we have a city council very excited to be advocating in favor of therapeutic psilocybin. So magic mushrooms. I tried to be sarcastic and funny by saying, “good, maybe if we’re all on mushrooms, our politics around here will start to make sense.” They missed the cynicism, think I am a supporter, and now I am on their mailing list.
I appreciate you calling my attention to Ecclesiastes 5:8. That fits perfectly and is some much needed wisdom for modern times.
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insanitybytes22
Interesting comment your made.
“One problem with the government declaring war on social problems, is that it implies there is an enemy to declare war on in the first place.
Regards and goodwill blogging.S
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Though I have not been personally affected by the opioid addiction/overdose crisis, I myself have suffered enough unrelenting ACE-related hyper-anxiety to have known, enjoyed and appreciated the great release upon consuming alcohol and/or THC. … Often societally overlooked is that intense addiction usually does not originate from a bout of boredom, where a person repeatedly consumed recreationally but became heavily hooked — and homeless, soon after — on an unregulated often-deadly chemical that eventually destroyed their life and even those of loved-ones.
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fgsjr
Thanks for your comments. which I had never was aware of if you did not comment.
I linked your comment to my post today
Regards and goodwill blogging.
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insanitybytes22
I linked your comment to my post today
Regards and goodwill blogging.
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Sadly, many of the chronically addicted don’t really care if they overdose and never wake up. Still, I believe that it’s not that they necessarily want to die; it’s that they want their pointless corporeal hell to cease and desist. And I don’t think I’m just splitting hairs with that point.
Regardless, neglecting people dealing with debilitating drug addiction should never have been an acceptable or preferable political option. But the callous politics typically involved with addiction funding/services likely reflect conservative electorate opposition, however irrational, towards making proper treatment available to low- and no-income addicts.
Tragically, it’s as though some people, however precious their souls, can be considered disposable. Even to an otherwise democratic and relatively civilized nation, their worth(lessness) is measured basically by their sober ‘productivity’ or lack thereof. Those people may then begin perceiving themselves as worthless and accordingly live their daily lives more haphazardly.
Albeit perhaps on a subconscious level, a somewhat similar inhuman(e) devaluation is observable in external [typically the Western world] attitudes toward the daily civilian lives lost in devastatingly long-drawn-out war zones and famine-stricken nations. The value of such life can be based upon its overabundance and/or the protracted conditions under which it suffers. Thus, those people can eventually receive meagre column inches on the back page of the First World’s daily news.
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