[OT] Pray for Andre

[Klaus on-rev]

Hi Richard,

Am 15.10.2012 um 19:17 schrieb Richard Gaskin <Ambassador at FourthWorld.com>:

> Bob Sneidar wrote:
> > I wish they would make a documentary in the US detailing the horrors
> > the drug market in the "civilized" world actually causes in other
> > countries, and then show it in all the public schools. I think a lot,
> > although not all, kids just getting into smoking pot or thinking
> > about other drugs would not, if they knew that their demand for these
> > things caused this much harm to others. I can remember the first time
> > I because aware of it, and thought back on my early days when I was a
> > pot head. The thing that took me back was that I had never given any
> > thought to it. I had never connected the dots. We need to connect the
> > dots for our children when they are young.
> 
> The true gateway drug is booze, and booze has a big lobby.

Yep, and you may twist and turn it, the other true gateway drug is TOBACCO!
Which doesn't even give you an intoxication***, so tobacco addiction is in fact a weird waste of money ;-)

*** Is this the correct term?

> We will never have a reason-based discussion of substance abuse in our culture as long as our media is owned by a small number of companies, some of whom make booze and all of whom earn big bucks from booze advertising.
> 
> --
> Richard Gaskin
> Fourth World
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Best

Klaus

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