In this
modern society, a lot of people talk about drugs and other addictive substances.
I’ve not lived in the ancient times, when the opium, coca leaves and ceremonial
drugs…To make contact with the spirits and the famous pink elephants, but I don’t
need to live there to understand the need of some fantasy and relax with drugs,
centuries ago, before the arrival of Colon, Cortez, Pizarro, the natives (and
slaves) of south America were used to consume coca leaves to keep them wake and
always working hard, the Chinese people consumed opium as an hallucinogen, many
years later, in the world crisis of the ’29, the dry law made a huge increase
of violence and illegal issues, just to sell some alcohol to the people, and
people just wanted to buy it, and currently, we have a lot of different kinds
of chemical or natural drugs available in the streets to consume, and the
society don’t reject it. Because at worse is the reality, we want more the
fantasy.
Al Capone, he was in the ''most wanted'' list of the FBI and the
number one ''Public Enemy'', for alcohol smuggling .
In a
personal way, alcohol and cigarettes are my way to get near to the fantasy, but
inside my neighborhood, there are some people who abuse a lot of different kind
of drugs, not only alcohol, also cocaine and cannabis, that kind of things
bring to the neighborhood a couple of troubles, but the last years all have
been quiet, my neighbors have never touched again any kind of drugs, except for
some occasional beer or wine. But inside my family or friends I’ve never had a
problem with drugs of abuse, not even for excessive coffee (I don’t like
coffee, so don’t hate me please).
Paracelsus thought that the human body is chemistry, and he was right, we are all chemistry and we can change our chemistry.
I never think in the opium, one example of the problem of the addiction.
ReplyDeleteLike u say, in the streets we have a lot of drugs to buy and consume.
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