Comments on: Thanks, Johnnie! http://www.angrymonkeys.net/kath/journal/20-thanks-johnnie/ "The only thing you get from burying your head in the sand is sand up your nose." Fri, 29 Aug 2008 01:59:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1 By: Monkey boy http://www.angrymonkeys.net/kath/journal/20-thanks-johnnie/#comment-32 Monkey boy Fri, 31 Aug 2007 14:47:50 +0000 http://www.angrymonkeys.net/kath/journal/20-thanks-johnnie/#comment-32 Right on sister. I can see concerned parents reading out the symptoms and problems of each drug to their poor children, thinking that they are doing a world of good in the process. Surely if they are going to be talking about drug use, they would mention cigarettes and alcohol? Are they not drugs as well that exact an even greater toll on society? Oh wait! They're legal! All is forgiven! (Slips $100 bill into pocket, taken from that nice man from the tobacco company) Right on sister. I can see concerned parents reading out the symptoms and problems of each drug to their poor children, thinking that they are doing a world of good in the process. Surely if they are going to be talking about drug use, they would mention cigarettes and alcohol? Are they not drugs as well that exact an even greater toll on society? Oh wait! They’re legal! All is forgiven!

(Slips $100 bill into pocket, taken from that nice man from the tobacco company)

]]> By: Kath http://www.angrymonkeys.net/kath/journal/20-thanks-johnnie/#comment-33 Kath Sat, 01 Sep 2007 04:27:11 +0000 http://www.angrymonkeys.net/kath/journal/20-thanks-johnnie/#comment-33 Yes, well, that's the thing isn't it? I don't know of many drugs which one can get addicted to "passively" and yet after moving out of home I actually experienced nicotine withdrawals and ended up smoking myself. And even now after I quit seven months ago I still have daily cravings. Do you suppose that if they were to tax the currently illegal drugs at the same rate as they do cigarettes and alcohol they'd still be sending out "drugs're bad" booklets? Yes, well, that’s the thing isn’t it? I don’t know of many drugs which one can get addicted to “passively” and yet after moving out of home I actually experienced nicotine withdrawals and ended up smoking myself. And even now after I quit seven months ago I still have daily cravings.

Do you suppose that if they were to tax the currently illegal drugs at the same rate as they do cigarettes and alcohol they’d still be sending out “drugs’re bad” booklets?

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