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Abstinence Is Not An Option Options Should be for Athletes Using Steroids by Richard Gicomeng
	I did not create this website as an endorsement for drugs. Considering that the 2005 United Nations World Drug Report put the retail value of the illicit drug trade at $322 billion to $400 billion with the licit drug market valued just under $1 trillion, the drug industry doesn't need a promotion. Drugs sell themselves. I devised this website because the war on drugs is the biggest catastrophic failure in human history that is being nudged along, year after year, by US legislators who have absolutely no clue of the dangers that result from the laws they produce. Our public servants think that by bullying selected individuals within the general public, everyone else is going to fall in line. Unfortunately, the sentences are so bizarre that it has made violent crime more acceptable. During the 1980s, proponents of the drug war were claiming an early success. The problem is how can a nation at war with its own people declare a success. It's even harder today, living in a nation that hasn't tasted victory in over 60 years. In the 21st century, the U.S. Government now targets those with legitimate chronic medical disorders that require continuous treatment with a controlled substance. Without treatment, many of them are unable to be gainfully employed, thus, they have become disabled; others have become dependant on the illicit drug market for a solution. Since states started adopting the Prescription Monitoring Program (PMP), writing a prescription for a Schedule II-IV drug is like signing an agreement to a lengthy prison term. Today, a simple visit with a healthcare provider can result in the end of a career that may not have even started. After presenting my argument to Senator Dianne Feinstein (CA) for more than 4 years, I feel that our political leaders would rather watch the U.S. perish than to take an ax to the drug war. But there's one thing I want you to remember, even if you forget about this website and strongly disagree with it, you have to know that the drug war is not about protecting youth in America or anywhere else.. You must remember that because it is an argument that costs tax payers $70 billion dollars a year when the budget for education is just a small fraction of that and itr finally getting the message that the drug war is not about protecting the young people in our society. If this was true, gasoline and household products would have been added to the list of controlled substances long ago. The problem with the war on drugs is just starting to become pervasive. To understand it more clearly, we turn to history. At the beginning of the Paleolithic Age -- also known as the Old Stone Age -- 2.5 million years ago, our ancestors began shaping tools out of stone. Primitive as they were, they knew about fire because fire resulted during an electrical storm when lightening touched ground, burning out acres of area. Humanity had the knowledge to cut flint rock into arrows and should have been able to recognize the value of fire. However, it would take about 500,000 years until humanity was able to control fire, and another 500,000 years before there is any evidence that humanity used fire as a way to transform one substance into something more useful. The probable reason why it took our ancestors that long to harness fire was due to fear. It was the same fear that stopped the application of electricity during ancient Greece, and the same fear that grounded Leonardo DiVinci's attempts to design an airplane.... Humans hid beneath the shelter of religion, fearing to face what was hard to believe, and believing instead, something that was easier to comprehend. Queen Isablla of Argon was perhaps the catalyst of change when she funded the westward voyage of Christopher Columbus that would supposedly place him in the East. The New World had a strong influence on Europe. It brought an end to feudalism. By the 18th century, science was no longer regarded as sorcery, and as a result, electricity emerged and new discoveries in chemistry came about, forming the foundation of the Industrial Revolution. On May 1, 1851, Queen Victoria and Prince Albert opened the Great Exposition in a 990,000 sq ft structure made of glass and iron known as the Crystal Palace, in which over 14,000 exhibitors demonstrated their inventions. This event officially set the stage for dawn of the Electro-Chemical Age and the Anthropocene Epoch. For the next 100 years, inventions abounded. Then during the early 1960s, it was becoming evident that along with the glory of inventions, there came a backlash of negative fallout as corporations produced enough pollution to have an impact on the environment. But rather than destroying
corporations, or banning cars, humanity fixed the problems, educated people how to drive and operate machinery from mechanical farm tools to sophisticated computers. On the other hand, no such protocol developed in pharmacology. There was no education; there was war. Abstinence is not an option for those of us who suffer from lifelong chronic disorders. Drugs are not only a tool, but also our salvation. Nevertheless, the US Government remains as fearful as our ancestors, preventing progress. For almost 7 years, now, the US has become the target of terrorism. A radical group of Muslim fundamentalist extremists is not causing this. The source of terrorism has been our own government which haphazardly and knowingly placed us into a war for no apparent good reason. That's not unusual, since the second World War, our government has been addicted to war. War is the solution for everything, from world poverty to the Cold War that protects us from communism. If the socioeconomic depressed members in our society realized how communism works to give everyone an equal slice of the pie, whether they are corporate CEOs or street paupers, they would never be parroting US propaganda about Communism. The same is true for the war on drugs. Wealthy capitalists work very hard to keep their money and positions in society. The source of terrorism has been our own government which haphazardly and knowingly placed us into a war for no apparent good reason. That's not unusual, since the second World War, our government has been addicted to war. War is the solution for everything, from world poverty to the Cold War that protects us from communism. If the socioeconomic depressed members in our society realized how communism works to give everyone an equal slice of the pie, whether they are corporate CEOs or street paupers, they would never be parroting US propaganda about Communism. The same is true for the war on drugs. Wealthy capitalists work very hard to keep their money and positions in society. I've been asked how I feel about sports figures and steroids. And my answer is very simple. We live in the Electro-Chemical Age. If a professional sports figure or amateur athlete wants to use steroids, what's the problem? Maybe it should be made known to the public, but It's an absolute disgrace to our society when we bring down a sports hero or heroine just because they are using modern technology. What about the ice skates that are used today. Do we expect the blades to be made the same way they were 25 years ago? What about the construction of a baseball or the bat that particular ball players uses. Are we going to start making it mandatory what type of bat can be used. Maybe we should start analyzing jockstraps to make sure they adhere to regulations? The recent conference in which the father of a 16-year-old boy who died from a heart condition that was attributed to steroids was absolutely pathetic. Is this parent trying to make ball players responsible for his responsibility. It was tacky of the father to seek such publicity for his son's death. If a sports figure can have that much more control over the children and teenagers in our society, then the parents should be arrested for negligence. Steroid use has been around for years. What makes it all of a sudden such a big ordeal. When George W. Bush, the man who was declared to be president by the US Supreme Court said "Americans are addicted to oil" which set off a chain reaction of gasoline huffing deaths, nobody stripped the man of his presidential title, although it would have gotten a standing ovation from about 75% of the American public. And when Hillary Clinton repeated that phrase, thinking it was cute, I was shocked. I wrote an email to her people and the video clip was taken down the next day. I haven't heard her use that phrase since. We really have become a fascist nation overnight. It scares me that we might never return to a democracy. I think that more than anything else should be our greatest fear. We should be petrified that the politicians in this country are not the public servants anymore, they are royalty. It strikes me as very odd that we can let this happen. My question is this: What are we going to do 10 years from now when all of a sudden some politician realizes that we've been doing the wrong thing; that we should have been allowing the public to use drugs? Of course, the only way that is going to happen is if there is a major crisis in the US and we are down to our last dollar. You see, money is the American god. It says so right on the dollar bill, "In God We Trust". And in the US, money is all that is trusted. There is no other god. When the currency stops flowing, then the US will get off its pompous ass and learn what life is all about. That's when the drug war will end because "god" won't be available to support it. There's a big difference between anti-drug disorder (ADD2) and a drug-free attitude (DFA). If we must fight in a drug war, let the politicians be the first to piss into a cup and let's see what drugs their doing!