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Waiting for The Man
By Peter Simmons
I’m waiting for my man. He’s not usually this late bringing what I need, but it’s getting more difficult getting illicit drugs past the armies of police, customs and snitches out to prevent people enjoying their drug of choice these days. Demand always stimulates supply, it's how the market works. I’m not an addict, you understand? I just like to use it now and then, perhaps daily after work and a little more at weekends. No overconsumption, no getting wasted. Just a recreational intake, sometimes alone, sometimes with friends. I like the effect it has on both my body and mind. If it hadn’t been criminalised, I’d be able to buy what I fancied at my local supermarket in a civilised manner, or even in a specialist shop which had a wide range of types and brands to choose from, instead of skulking around the fringes of the criminal world, and paying money into the profits of organised crime; the people who are organised enough to manage this kind of trade efficiently. But no, we had to do what America told us, had to follow them down the road to anti-pleasure, Puritan denial of what millions of people have enjoyed for thousands of years, and sign up to the war on drugs, with all its excesses, inconsistencies and illogicality. It has not worked. Supplies are more freely available now than they ever were in the sixties, and the war on drugs has created millionairs of some of those who run organised crime operations and pay others to take the risks. So I sit here and wait. He can’t be much longer, he said on the phone an hour, and it’s been two now, so, unless he’s been busted, in which case I’ll go without tonight, he should be here any minute, no need to worry yet, hold-ups can happen even with legitimate traders. Perhaps the traffic’s bad. Trouble is, no matter how many people, some of them very well respected, tell politicians they should scrap the drug laws and let adults decide for themselves what they put into their bodies, they are all too scared of losing votes and their jobs, such is the nature of the hysterical publicity attached to the war on recreational drugs, some of the more vitriolic supporters of which claim they damage the brain, and make people immoral, rebellious and can even lead to death. Whilst I’m grateful for their concern with my health, I’ll take my chances, I’m an adult. Ah, he’s here! Thank goodness. Wonder what he’s got for me this week; a bottle of Chardonnay would be much appreciated, but then again, I do so love the Irish whisky he sometimes manages to get hold of – the little boats don’t stop coming across from the Emerald Isle even though the Royal Navy vessels try to catch them. The Irish weren’t so stupid as to go along with America’s prohibition, and since they’ve been making whisky for thousands of years, they aren’t about to stop just yet. Ireland is as a consequence a very rich country now since they’re makiing handsome profits on the inflated alcohol prices they can charge; justified by the high risks of smuggling – with life for a third offence, a ludicrous overreaction to what is really a non issue. The problem is getting those convinced by the over-the-top hysteria that's bandied about that there actually isn't anything to worry about and that legalisation would remove the profits from organised crime, allow government to collect tax on sales, and control quality so that no more dangerous 'hooch' makes it onto the market, with drinkers falling dead or ending up in hospital; all of which plays into the hands of the antimob, since it appears to prove to the hard-of-thinking [politicians] that the law must be right, and is only protecting us from ourselves. They should have a drink and relax!
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Contributor's Note
One 'if only' story we don't have to bother about. They learned from the birth of organised crime that denying people what they want is no solution. So you'd think they'd apply the lesson across the board wouldn't you? That's to ignore vested interests and the power they exert over government of all persuasions.
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