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Jump To Comment: 2 1"the drug and alcohol blight" by T at Sat Sep 10, 2011 12:41
Alcohol is, always has been, and always will be, a mind-altering drug.
Just because booze happens to be legal in this part of the world, does not in any way alter the "mind-altering drug" reality, or justify a separate classification which insidiously implies that it is somehow NOT a mind-altering drug.
Neither does it alter the fact that alcohol has proved itself to be a highly addictive drug (physically and psychologically) for a significant percentage of those who start using it, and, that in one way and another (including car crashes and other forms of accidental death for example), it kills far more people every year than all the other mind-altering drugs combined: legal, prescribed, and illegal.
Very interestingly, there is no safety and health warnings for the user (or potential user) on any of these mind-altering booze products.
Ever wondered why that might be?
Clue: Ask yourself who benefits most from this very neat and insidious (and entirely avoidable!!) piece of destructive deception?
Denis Naughten's statement about seeds is just a distraction. The real problem is the underlying social deprivation and the destruction of all the social nets which is undergoing even further greater destruction by the international financial elite through their agencies of the ECB/IMF and thence the government.
A good start could be made on the alcohol problem by making it a bit harder to get it and not making it so cheap. Every Centra, Spar, and larger supermarket around the country has tonnes of the stuff going at remarkly cheap prices 7 days a week the moment you step into the store. A few years back the FF govt made a token gesture by mandating earlier closing hours for off-licenses which was a joke because any teenager on Fri/Sat night would have been down at the local supermarket much earlier in the day getting their supplies for the evening.
The other real problem is the glorification of alcohol in Ireland and places like the UK too. Drinking alcohol in excess is all related to your peers around you and certain expectations. Our society is so shallow and lacking any sense of cohesion, coherent national debate that really it is not surprising. Of course this is not a new thing. Even a century ago, we had a reputation of the drunken Paddy and one would imagine that back then it was a poverty issue.
The drug problem then would seem to be a natural extension of our underlying alcohol problem and whatever are the drivers of that.
Whatever the cause there is one effect of this. Drugs have completely destroyed certain communities usually those that were already the poorest and in a sense should be the very places where strong resistance and challenges ought to be made against the ruling order. But in such smashed places, it is very difficult for organised resistance or even critical mass of alternative ways of organising society, to arise. And this suits there prevaliling political elite to a tee. It is the same the world over where devasted poor urban areas are blighted by drugs and other forms of abuse.
There is probably no easy answer because ultimately the drug and alcohol blight strengths the grip on power through this smash and divide mechanism and so there is no real reason why anything other than token PR efforts are made by the body politic itself.