The Drugs War - Why It Should Be Ended - A documentary by Russell Brand
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As someone who has been around drugs all my life in the UK it is interesting to see different people's perspectives on drugs.
You can read my own thoughts on drugs and the war on it here: The Drug Laws Need Re-Thinking.
If you know my history and my current conitions then you will know I am on Fentanyl for my chrionic pain condition, a drug 100 * stronger than Morphine and many times more potent than heroin. It's a drug that they cut heroin with and has caused many deaths in the USA.
I am not committing a crime by taking this strong opiate because I am being prescribed it by my GP for my pain.
It's given to me in patches I stick on my body where the drug is slowly absorbed over 2 days . It's supposed to be 3 days but I am on the highest dose and the GP has overruled NICE rules on medications due to the severity of my condition.
When I go to the chemist to collect my supply they have to get it from the Controled Drugs Supply where I then sign an extra part of the form.
It is a strong drug, one that I was told by a girl I met who worked at a homeless centre when I was in iceland (where heroin wasn't available) that if I threw one of my patches into the middle of a crowd of homeless addicts they would fight to the death over it.
Apparently due to the lack of heroin any Icelandic addict would cook these patches up, extract the Fentanyl and then inject or smoke it.
Basically though it doesn't touch the sides on me and I get no buzz at all from taking it through a patch. This is probably why I am prescribed the maximum amount and over 2 not 3 days plus other prescribed pain killers, and of course taking other strong drugs as well to ease the pain.
For me to be on a drug that is legal because a GP gave it to me and for another person to be a criminal for using it because they bought it off me in the streets is madness in my mind.
Why is it ok to take a mind and body altering drug when it is supplied by the "system" but not when you buy it to take it for recreational purposes.
Why is it okay to ease the pain of the body but not of the mind?
You can see how the Goverments involved in cracking down doors in the morning and locking up junkies are two faced by the way they keep the drugs flowing.
From Vietnam and the Golden Triangle, Columbia and Mexico and their own internal wars and to Afghanistan where opium and now Heroin production has increased hugely since the most recent war started.
Let's not forget that it was US policy to let Opium be grown in Afghanistan when the Soviets were at war in the same country 30 years ago to get their soldiers addicted and demoralise them as well as use the funds from the sales to pay for weapons for what is now al-Qaeda.
You can read all about the CIA's involvment in the production and selling of drugs in this 4 part article and the most amazing quote comes from the biggest heroin producer in the 1980's from Burma, Khun Sa, who when interviewed claimed that the the CIA were one of his best customers.
"by 1986 he was refining 80 percent of the opium harvest in the Golden Triangle. The king of opium trade, Khun Sa had risen to become the world’s largest single heroin trafficker by controlling 60 percent of the world’s illicit opium supply."
"In 1986, Bo Gritz went to Burma with White House approval to meet with Khun Sa who supposedly had information on American MIAs. Khun Sa said that he wanted to end the opium and heroin traffic in his territory and to expose American officials involved in the drug smuggling. Gritz claimed that he took this message to the United States government and was told by Tom Harvey of the National Security Council that “there is no interest here” in the Khun Sa overture. Gritz had in his possession 40 hours of video tape of Khun Sa who “charged American officials, both past and present, with being the chief buyers of drugs produced in that part of the world.” He also claimed that he wanted to stop drug trafficking, but that the United States government would not let him. Khun Sa said that the CIA were some of his best customers. He offered support to the DEA to alert them of drug movements, but this was rejected at the headquarters level."
For more information about the CIA’s involvement in drug smuggling please read the following articles:
You might aready know that the rulers of our world have no interest in stopping the war on drugs just like they have no interest in stopping the war on terror.
They are benefiting from it.
They are earning good money from the misery of others and it just shows what kind of people we are being controlled by when they would rather make another billion to add to their existing hundreds than stop people living in squalour taking heroin to ease the pain of the existence these overlords have created for them.
What a world.
As I sit here and write this I am watching Russell Brand's documentary on the war on drugs on BBC3.
He is an ex addict and I recommned reading his book Revolution at the same time.
It discusses the fact that we are all tring to escape reality because reality is so crap.
As some ex addict says "Drugs and Drink are the answer to reality" - It's true.
When reality is so crap that it doesn't give you anything more than cheap consumerism, materialism, banksterism and a lack of jobs and free training for people who want it.
Why wouldn't you want to escape reality by going up the pub, taking drugs, watching TV or other mind numbing activities.
I suggest you watch his documentary as he interviews politiicans, goes on drug raids, speaks to addicts and politiicans and visits drug clinics in Switzerland where people are allowed to bang up and smoke crack.
Russel Brand - End The Drugs War
This is the blurb above the video on YouTube.com.Russell Brand:
End the Drugs War BBC Full Documentary 2014The documentary Russell Brand made for BBC Three in 2012 concluded with him giving evidence to the Home Affairs Select Committee. Drawing on his own experience of drug taking and recovery, he advocated treating addiction as a health issue rather than a criminal problem and underlined his own belief that abstinence is the best way to help addicts.
Since then the Committee has reported its findings, concluding that the British drugs laws were failing and that it was a 'now or never' moment to reform them. But David Cameron didn't agree, insisting that the drugs policy is working in Britain and that we should 'stick at it'.
In this personal journey for BBC Three, Russell Brand sets out to challenge that point of view. He wants to find out how other countries are tackling their problems of drug abuse and to explore how the framework of criminalization implicit in the 'war on drugs' produces enormous harm in the treatment of addicts. Russell believes that 'a shift' is happening in the way that people view drug addiction. But to really change things he needs to persuade those who have power.
Russell starts on the frontline of the 'war on drugs' by joining the Met Police as they carry out dawn drug raids, and ends up sharing a police cell with a young addict who has been in and out of prison since she began taking drugs aged 12. He witnesses the dangers of street addiction in Birmingham, but is as shocked by what he sees in the legal 'drug-consumption room' he visits in Berne, capital of conservative Switzerland.
At a drug recovery conference, Russell is drawn into an argument about abstinence versus government methadone programmes, but also finds an unlikely ally for his campaign in a Tory lord. At a UN drugs conference in Vienna he meets the politician who in 2001 decriminalized drugs in Portugal. What Russell discovers from him informs his impassioned plea at the end of the conference that drugs should be decriminalized.
As he takes his argument public, Russell finds his views are challenged by those who say that the public fear that lifting criminalization will also lift drug use. But a second encounter with the young addict he met during the Met drug raid (who, since then, has been in prison, been released and is back on drugs) bolsters his belief.
Russell meets the deputy prime minister, Nick Clegg, who surprises him by agreeing in principle that the 'war on drugs' is futile and unsuccessful, but then frustrates him by explaining the lack of political will to move forward quickly to change things for the better.
Presenter Russell Brand Executive Producer Liz Hartford Producer Ross Wilson Director Ross Wilson Production Company Matchlight Ltd
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