Man, Are We High or What?
by James Glaser
Americans love to get high. Most adults are on some form of drug, be it caffeine, nicotine, or some "Legal" prescription a doctor will give to you. Parents go nuts because they think their kids are buying drugs from some dealer, while they are doing the same thing. Only they have to pay for that office visit. With an illegal drug dealer, you write out your own prescription. I'm writing about this, because some people went nuts on me because I thought George Bush might be on drugs. Well here in America, there is about a 99% chance that he is. Remember the guy is in his 50s and he is President. Chances are pretty good he needs something for the stress, something to keep him alert and something to calm him down. Hey we dole out drugs like Ritalin to our children, even have the school nurse giving it to them so it seems medicinal. So, what would be so strange about our President getting a little "Help" too? When I was in High school and in the Marines millions of moms were on speed to lose weight or on Valium to calm down, or both. It got so bad that the Government had to step in and curb the number of prescriptions doctors were giving out. If you go to (http://www.rxlist.com) you can read about the "TOP 200 DRUGS of 2003 By Prescription Dispensed." You will see that Valium has made it back up to number 16. When I got out of the Marines, the VA would give me bottles of a hundred and refill them as often as I needed them. Of course back then the VA was trying to "OFF" Vietnam vets, because they had no idea of what to do with them. Lots of guys OD on those valium. Go to http://www.rxlist.com/top200.htm, you will see a list based on 3 billion prescriptions given out in 2003. That would be 3,000,000,000 prescriptions in a year. MONEY? You think maybe there is money to be made here? I bet a lot more money is made with these legal drugs than all the pot and cocaine sold in America. Think about the reported 2 billion people in the world, who live on less than 2 dollars a day. How many prescriptions do you think they get a year? Americans are High and getting Higher every year, would it surprise you to find out our leaders are too. Remember they get their drugs for free, we pay for them. |
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