On the Legalization of All Substances in the US

at what point in our evolution did some of us see fit to
decide for the rest of us,
what we can & cannot do with these physical
bodies of ours?
certainly, the supposed backbone of the “free” & “democratic”
westernly
civilized
nations,
does not depend on whether or not its citizens,
on their own free time,
pump substances into themselves
in order to escape a reality which established states
do such a good job of
destroying,
does it?

nations were great at killing off each other in the race to
rape the earth of all that it can give us---
nations were great at oppressing their own people &
draining them of all that they actually need to survive,
striving without a moment to rest
in the systematic erasure of those 95% or so of us
who have less than the 1-5%,
combined---
now that the nation-state is dead,
multi-nationals dictate what we can & cannot do,
through the puppetry of illusory government.

petty discrepancies over what substances should be legal
is so transparently oppressive at this point,
that one only needs to look at the statistics of those who
have been locked away behind bars for minor
possession or selling infringements,
in dealing with laws that are meant to
keep the people of these “civilized” countries
from doing what they want to with the
“freedom” that they have attained through such
“cultural evolution.”

people kill each other when they are addicted to something
in order to get more of it & because it is
harder to attain than say, soap or
lemonade.

governments make money off the taxes taken from the few
legal substances,
and we all know that those that are legal kill more than those that
aren’t---
the fact remains that those prisons that are smack dab in the middle of
nowhere in the US,
provide jobs to a whole town that would be crippled when those
in jail for drug related infractions
are all freed.

those that enjoy the art of
fear mongering,
tell us that if all substances were legal,
we would all be running amok,
every single one of us hooked on something,
and society as a whole would
break
down---
this writer submits that it is those very institutionalized forms of
oppression that force individuals to escape in such a manner
that at present,
one would come to such a conclusion.

with the lifting of obstructions on our freedom,
the enjoyment of the ability to live as we alone see fit,
on our own,
for our own,
with the acknowledgement of others around us,
most assuredly,
our species will not fall back to the dark ages,
but instead excel.

you have heard the arguments about what legalization of
one “drug” would do for the US economy...
imagine what all substances being available in such a way
would do---
imagine how many people would be allowed to leave prison &
live their lives without big brother looking over their shoulder---
imagine what the US could do with that money,
how it could better the education system,
how it could attain universal health care,
how it could make our lives better.

we need to stop imagining, stop settling & start
doing.