Edwin Stratton-Mackay answers “is it a real or fake story?”

Hailley Dawn--✖ When you love somebody, they'll always leave too soon ✖ asked this question about Go Ask Alice:

is it a real or fake story?

Edwin Stratton-Mackay Go Ask Alice is a politically-funded novel, a terror story to frighten the young and generate scapegoats. A scary fictitious melodrama set at the begi…moreGo Ask Alice is a politically-funded novel, a terror story to frighten the young and generate scapegoats. A scary fictitious melodrama set at the beginning of the imposition of the catastrophic Nixon "War on Drugs" infrastructure.

Firstly the American regime used a sledgehammer to crush a deeply ingrained cultural nut., Much fewer than 20% of people who try almost all drugs never develop problems with those drugs. Socially unoroblematic, they form part of of society, With the sole exception of tobacco, which kills 60 per cent of its addicts.

What is the real drug problem? Tobacco.

Seven million dead a year. Crack and smack. together, kill less than a thousand. Still a thousand too many, but there's a bait and switch campaign to safe-point tobacco being paid for by tobacco companies. That costs an invisible Holocaust every year. 7 million per year around the world,

Obviously the best thing to do is not to take addictive or harmful drugs in the first place, But since 30 years ago when Go Ask Alice was written the world of drug understanding was totally different; a mystery to most. Thirty years later,tobacco kills millions and 'illegal drugs' still kill thousands.

To understand the real drug problems in society, and the likely outcomes of our decisions, we should read "Risk" by Dan Gardner, which will get us a sense of proportion. Then to understand the nature of addiction itself, Johann Hari's "Chasing the Scream" is brilliant. (less)

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