Plunging Street Prices Of A Drug Nation

The Independent UK had an article going on about the consequences of falling prices of "street drugs". My letter to the editor:


Dear Editor,

When I saw the headlines for your article on the plunging street prices of drugs, an "epidemic", and a "drug nation", I thought you might be covering the downfall of society resulting from the pharmaceutical drug cartel donating lavish bribes, er, “campaign contributions”, in order to get the government to create a nation of subsidized addicts.

When you manufacture a culture in which children are taught from birth that drugs are the answer to their physical and emotional problems, the move toward “street drugs” is perfectly natural and inevitable.

And BigPharma will be there to medicate the shattered lives with more drugs, thus perpetrating—and profiting exorbitantly from—that lesson.

Sincerely,

Terry L. Clark