Light and Heavy

Today, one can often hear that "light" narcotic drugs (like marijuana) should be made legal, to draw people away from "heavy" drugs (like heroine). They argue that one would always prefer to buy a cheap doze in a common drug store instead of a risky and expensive affair with a criminal drug pusher. They say that light drugs are not so dangerous for one's health, and that there were many people who used them for decades without any visible harm to their health.

Is it really as they say?

No, it is not. The arguments in favor of light drugs exactly reproduce those that drug pushers use to seduce silly young people and make them drug dependent. Usually, light drugs serve as a prelude to heavier drugs, which, in turn, open the way for the heaviest. When one gets used to light drugs, they do not seem strong enough, and one naturally comes to trying something worse, since any psychological barriers have already been destroyed. Gradually growing prices do not raise any objection since market economy has long since stuffed the brains with the false idea that price reflects quality, and "more expensive" means "better". By the time when the price becomes too high, there is no way back, and the drug-addict is ready to do anything for the next doze.

So why all the fuss? Who is interested in poisoning people? Well, one could point at drug producers and sellers as an origin of the campaign, since the their profit is obvious and measurable in billions of dollars. However, the principal figures behind the scene are much more important, and their profit is not as easily observable. It is a general law of the class society that the ruling classes are interested in narrowing the minds of the exploited majority, to prevent them from being able to see the real faults of economy and the unfairness of the social system. This comes in contradiction with the objective necessity of mass education for economic development, and people will have to become cleverer with time, at least to adapt to the new cultural environment. Therefore, the old blinders will sometime fail, and some stronger means will be needed to suppress people's rationality and keep them under control. Isn't it resembling, on the level of the society, the individual drug addict's pathway from lighter to still heavier drugs? And the same predictions about the end of that mad race can be made.

There many ways to narcotize the population of the Earth, some of them used for millennia. Religion was one of the most efficient tools since the very dawn of civilization, and it is still widely used by the ruling class to divert the minds from the earthly things to abstract fantasies.