by DJ Triplett

Created on: May 15, 2010   Last Updated: May 16, 2010

I've never taken illegal drugs, the key word being illegal.  I take prescription pain pills for the metal plate in my neck. 

I was raised to believe that we did all that we could to obey the law, and to respect our elders.  The fact is that there are many laws on the books that should not exist, and some that should never have existed.  I believe that the law needs to learn to respect us - the people that make this country. 

While I've not chosen to smoke pot does not make me any better than a person that chooses to smoke it.  People who chose alcohol and drive drunk, kill someone while doing it, then confess to their AA meetings does not make them saints, nor should they hoard it over a person that is addicted to meth simply because their drug of choice is "legal."

Many, many years ago, as this country was being built, the Chinese labored toward making the railroads.  With the immigration of the Chinese came the opium dens, possibly the first recreational drug clubs in existence in the United States. 

Opium was not illegal, and often used in forms other than smoking to alleviate pain and help during surgery.  As government will do, they wanted to find a way to make money off of these profitable dens, but they could not determine who to tax for the opium houses. 

They formed a task-force to collect taxes, following their decision to tax the opium houses, not the end-users.  When it was decided that these drugs were to be declared illegal, they kept this task-force, and it grew into what we know today as the D.E.A. 

It was ignorance then, and it is ignorance now that keeps the government and their "war on drugs" in business.  They manufacture FEAR as a means of keeping the American people from educating themselves as to the true issues in the world today, instead keeping themselves in high-paying jobs where they are allowed to bully us and deprive us of our rights. 

One large aspect of the "war on drugs" has been the education of children through the program "Dare." 70 percent of our school's population attend a "Dare" program at some point, yet their "success" rate of keeping kids off drugs are no more improved than the health classes taught by the schools, and at a substantial less cost for the taxpayer.

Yet, seemingly successful, the Dare team held a large rally filled with grade-schoolers in Florida in 2003.   Following a mock stand-down between the good guys (the cops and DEA) and

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