Nancy and Ronald Reagan felt strongly about eliminating the scourge of drugs from our society.
They were mistaken that only the defined illegal drugs of the era were bad. Further, the policies they advocated were an abject failure that has since been abandoned.
However, their hearts were in the right place.
We need to defeat the enemy: The Pharmaceutical industry.
Cory Doctorow documented how We Paid to Develop Merck’s Covid Pill, and now they’re charging us a 4,000% markup on it.
Merck really sucks.
But they are hardly the worst.
That honor goes to Purdue Pharma.
Purdue Pharma is majority owned by the Sacklers, a multigenerational billionaire crime family of mass-murdering dope-peddlers, who basically invented modern, legal dope peddling.
Cory Doctorow documented how The Sacklers woulda gotten away with it if it wasn’t for those darned meddling feds.
Purdue Pharma really sucks.
Just Say No to Drugs — All of Them
I’ve never taken a prescription drug longer than a few weeks.
I’ve never taken over-the-counter drugs for more than a few months, and those were antihistamines.
I have taken illegal drugs for extended periods; at least they were illegal. Cannabis was my drug of choice.
I liked to smoke small amounts of Sativa leaf to “take the edge off.” I avoided Indicas when possible due to the mental blanking side effect.
I found that Sativa Cannabis was effective at getting me out of my head and into my heart.
I take no drugs today.
My 103-year-old grandfather
My grandfather lived to be 103 years old. The only medication he ever took was niacin for his high cholesterol.
He only took that briefly because the flushing was an unwelcome side effect.
Also, it runs in the family, and the high levels do not result in artery buildup; at least, that’s what my Cardiac Computed Tomography (CT) Scan revealed to me.
In my opinion, my grandfather lived to be 103 and sustained mental clarity for nearly all of that time because he didn’t take Pharmaceutical Drugs.
Pharmacists just say No
One of my closest friends from High School is a pharmacist. So is his wife.
They occasionally take ibuprofen, but nothing else.
I’ve known other pharmacists who have told me the same thing.
The reason they give is that these drugs are very powerful and they have many deleterious side effects.
Unless they really, really needed them, they would never consider taking them.
Senior Citizens just say Yes
I recently spoke to an 82-year old gentleman who told me that he is on about 15 different medications. He says he just does what the doctor tells him.
Apparently, that means taking a multitude of prescription drugs.
Have you ever spent time talking with retired people?
What do most of their conversations revolve around?
Seniors discuss their ailments, the meds they are on, their difficulties with insurance, and their need for these drugs for their survival. I’ve witnessed and participated in those conversations.
These talks are not uplifting.
The mindset that must die
Western culture believes that all diseases have a physical cause. It’s the nasty extension of materialism.
Physical causes must have physical remedies.
Therefore, some drug is the fix or the cure for disease.
Perhaps we haven’t discovered the magic drug yet, but we have a panoply of existing drugs to address ailments both big and small.
Apparently, we are all born with drug deficiencies.
We lack sufficient caffeine, so we must consume coffee, soda, or various powders to correct this problem.
Apparently, countless years of evolution did not provide us with a body capable of sustaining itself without infusions of exotic chemicals.
Our natural immune system requires constant infusions of drugs to sustain its operation.
It’s a miracle we made it this far.
Thank goodness for pharmaceuticals, right?
The Slippery Slope to Polypharmacy
Polypharmacy is taking many drugs at the same time.
The Pharmaceutical industry thrives on polypharmacy, so to them, it’s a necessary condition to be managed, preferably with even more drugs.
Polypharmacy happens for a simple reason.
When a single drug is prescribed, it will often have side effects.
A second drug will be prescribed to deal with the side effects.
That will induce even more prescriptions.
Eventually, the cocktail of these drugs interact and produce even more side effects, resulting in even more prescriptions.
A completely clean person like me can devolve into Polypharmacy in a matter of weeks.
Special Needs Polypharmacy
I am particularly close to the Special Needs community.
I have a 22-year-old son diagnosed with autism.
He is the only one I know who is not on a Polypharmacy regimen.
Special Needs people often don’t have the capacity to make decisions for themselves. My son doesn’t.
Thus, they are subject to the whims of their caregivers, who generally load them up with drugs.
It makes me sad to see so many drugged without their understanding or consent.
Drugs have their place
I am not completely against all Pharmaceutical Drugs.
As I documented in (Some) Schizophrenics are Enlightened, Minus Proper Body Anchoring, Schizophrenics often need drugs to remain safe.
But the need for drugs and the applications that drugs are applied to is a chasm so vast that a trillion-dollar industry of leaches and murders exists there.
If I were convinced a particular drug was essential to my survival — a really tough sell — I would take it.
Although, I would explore every possible natural remedy first.
Just Say No
When in doubt, just say no.
Pharmaceutical Drugs do more harm than good.
