This is one of the most thought provoking and impactful articles I have ever read. In particular, the resounding truth of the below statement.
“It was more impactful to families and first responders in the early 90s when crack cocaine addiction caused people to abandon their families, their dignity, virtue, and self-respect. Addicts squatted in squalor, wasting away living off their high and vending machine honey buns. Today, we see overdoses kill people in seconds, and they are gone just as quickly, while in the past we had to witness the sad devastating process.”
If only our leaders that have the power to stop this could get out of their own way with the misdirection they pour out on a daily basis, lives could be saved.
In one generation, American Leadership has faltered to not only avoiding the issue but making the issue happen with our allegiance to China (who imports fentanyl) and an open border (where it’s brought in).
It seems like an eternity when 99% of Congress including the entire Black Caucus voted for the 1994 Crime Bill, motivated by thousands of African Americans dying from the violent effects of crack cocaine. To not act then would have been ignoring the extreme suffering of so many in our urban communities and clearly racist for not helping.
Thank you! You are completely correct that the key to these issues are traced back to weak leaders who traffic in division and sugar coated socialism i.e. equity.
My interactions with Gen Z have suggested to me that they want legalized weed and other more “organic” drugs like DMT and mushrooms. I’m sympathetic to that viewpoint to an extent. These drugs have shown some medicinal properties.
The problem is, that more reasonable stance on drug legalization has a difficult time separating itself from the hard drugs that are wiping out thousands of people every week.
It’s even harder for Gen Z and others to see that the nice guy selling weed down the hall is contributing in his own small way to a horrifying epidemic of drug deaths from the harder stuff.
This is one of the most thought provoking and impactful articles I have ever read. In particular, the resounding truth of the below statement.
“It was more impactful to families and first responders in the early 90s when crack cocaine addiction caused people to abandon their families, their dignity, virtue, and self-respect. Addicts squatted in squalor, wasting away living off their high and vending machine honey buns. Today, we see overdoses kill people in seconds, and they are gone just as quickly, while in the past we had to witness the sad devastating process.”
If only our leaders that have the power to stop this could get out of their own way with the misdirection they pour out on a daily basis, lives could be saved.
In one generation, American Leadership has faltered to not only avoiding the issue but making the issue happen with our allegiance to China (who imports fentanyl) and an open border (where it’s brought in).
It seems like an eternity when 99% of Congress including the entire Black Caucus voted for the 1994 Crime Bill, motivated by thousands of African Americans dying from the violent effects of crack cocaine. To not act then would have been ignoring the extreme suffering of so many in our urban communities and clearly racist for not helping.
Thank you! You are completely correct that the key to these issues are traced back to weak leaders who traffic in division and sugar coated socialism i.e. equity.
My interactions with Gen Z have suggested to me that they want legalized weed and other more “organic” drugs like DMT and mushrooms. I’m sympathetic to that viewpoint to an extent. These drugs have shown some medicinal properties.
The problem is, that more reasonable stance on drug legalization has a difficult time separating itself from the hard drugs that are wiping out thousands of people every week.
It’s even harder for Gen Z and others to see that the nice guy selling weed down the hall is contributing in his own small way to a horrifying epidemic of drug deaths from the harder stuff.