Modern Society Sucks

Here’s a story about why “drug addiction” is so prevalent in our modern society. ?It is widely known and agreed, by most, that trauma, pain and suffering are the most common reasons among substance consumers for their consumption.? What’s less talked about is the reason so many people experience these negative effects and what their substance consumption does to counteract those feelings or emotions, I will try to outline a few of them here.? When people think of trauma other people suffered, the usual presumption is physical or mental abuse by a specific individual in their personal lives and while this is a common factor in many people’s lives it is not the only reason for a person’s long term dependence on any substance.?

Modern society has been geared for decades in a specific way to promote the very worst of human characteristics like greed and suppress the best ones like compassion or empathy, which compounds further trauma on top of what people experience in their personal lives.? These factors are also the common thread between all the different forms of trauma people suffer in their personal lives, made all the worse by governments tactics of division, pitting people against each other by highlighting some small physical or cultural differences.? Combine this with a media that patently lies compulsively to sell corporate interests and a medical community who’s ethical compass is bent in an S hoop and we have a recipe for disaster.

Let’s start with the medical community who don’t even need to see a patient anymore to write a prescription for some experimental toxic chemical. Are doctor’s even doctors anymore?? More and more doctor’s now live a celebrity lifestyle while the service they provide remains inadequate and the institutions they work for or with remain untrustworthy.? “Do no harm”, famous words known all around the world but not just words, at least to some still.? Yet doctor’s write scripts for toxic medications all the time that have to be sold with a big sheet warning of its toxicity and potential side effects, have they forgotten what “do no harm” means?? It’s not even worth delving into the abyss that is the pharmaceutical industry that creates these toxic “medications” and then get government to indemnify them from responsibility of the negative consequences for patients from their products, it’s the doctor who decides what the patient takes.? I find it quite ironic that doctors are happy prescribe those patented drugs but then claim they can’t be held responsible for the natural drugs, they’re predecessors only had to deal with, why the difference. ?In this modern age of instant communication anywhere in the world and instant access to any knowledge you require through the internet, doctors have no excuse to claim ignorance of particularly Cannabis, but all drugs in their natural forms especially when their own publications like the Martindale and Westcott, Extra Pharmacopeia from 1925 has a whole page, and a bit, under the title Cannabis Indica.? Page 51 if you have one handy!

If the effect of corporate money on the medical community wasn’t enough, we have the media community who profit from the spreading of misinformation and plain lies on and industrial scale.? Attacking anyone who strays from the agreed narrative they profligate through television, radio, and print media and on any sign or billboard you may come across while ignoring all the pain and suffering caused, protecting the incompetent and malevolent.? This I’m truly sorry to say but have to because it’s true, charities who perform public service duties have developed an industrial complex of their own that’s skewed their own ethical compasses.? At what point do we accept the service provision is inadequate and decide to make fundamental reform that will reduce the need for those services, giving them a chance to provide adequate services for those who really need them.? Some of the Gardaí are the only ones I really feel sorry for, they have no ability to change their mandate independently and are not allowed to even question it because it will basically stall their career. In saying that, they do retire, where do they disappear to then?

With all that said, I said this was a story about why substance consumption is so prevalent in our modern society. ?I’m going to try to do that by explaining, to the best of my ability, what cannabis consumption does for me to counteract the experience I’ve had in the world mostly since the GFC heist of 2008 to 2010 through the prism I see it.? In 2006 I bought a house at the height of the bubble, I sensed the danger in the economy but I was still relatively young and couldn’t resist the FOMO being stirred up at the time all around me. In 2008 that sense of danger had intensified and I knew something was going to happen in Ireland, I didn’t sense the scale at that time, so a na?ve me thought it more prudent to rent the house and emigrate and wait out the storm in Australia. ?It didn’t last a year that the GFC reached Australia and due to my employer going bankrupt and other unforeseen circumstances I was forced to return home to try and find another way to deal with the mortgage. About a year later, after going through all the rigmarole of the banks and politicians the bailout decisions were made and the home owners drew the short straw.? The Banks got their bailout, payed themselves bonuses and carried on as normal, the homeowners lost everything, you couldn’t even hand the house back and be allowed to start again, contributing to the wider economy.? No, you were shackled with that odious debt which was assigned to you at the time and they got away with it by reinflating the balloon of property values to maintain safe mortgages at that higher property value.? That’s what really kept the banks alive and everyone who’s paid their mortgage since have practically been paying double what they should, due to the higher value on their property.? You’re a cash machine for banks!

Now I keep getting side tracked from the issue at hand, substance consumption, it would have been shortly after that time probably 2013 when I began to appreciate the benefits I experienced consuming cannabis.? Now for context, even to this day any real poly drug consumer would consider me barely a novice as I’ve never been inclined to or consumed any other substance that didn’t come with a prescription and even that has been very rare, thank god!? I hope you don’t mind my expressions in this article, I want to be as clear, concise and honest as I can be and it helps to write as I think, probably should be edited but I’m not an editor.? So 2013, I moved to London for the year and that’s when I developed the thirst for knowledge that plagues me to this day.? When you really take a deeper look, even at mainstream news, and they hide all the really bad stuff, the world we all share today is barely a shadow of the one we knew as children if that and even worse than that its being systematically geared to cause more havoc in the future if you look at geo-politics and global conflicts.? All this factual information overwhelms the senses even to the point of mental and physical pain, at least for me anyway, and this is where cannabis consumption comes in.? The most common experience of everyone who has consumed cannabis at some point is the sense and feeling of relaxation, even contentment sometimes to the point of sleep.? Cannabis naturally dials down our sense perception, it allows me to research things I wish wasn’t happening without suffering in misery and lack of hope for a better society.

I fought the banks for a few years, until about 2015 when I last attended court on that issue, but since then focused most of my attention on campaigning for sensible drug laws after feeling the benefit of cannabis in my own life I started researching other people all over the world benefitting in their own way from cannabis, I was equally shocked and angered by what I found.? It’s a battle I fight to this day along with a few more I picked up along the way and the only thing that numbs my senses enough to let me do that is cannabis.? I smoke it all day every day, while carrying out my normal daily duties, it allows me to suppress my emotions to the pain and suffering I see in the world, all day every day, without it I couldn’t write this article.? I don’t get stoned anymore, that’s a natural effect of tolerance building, it doesn’t impair my ability to do complex tasks or operate machinery, it reminds me to stop and think when I see something new and consider it, it allows me to focus on specific tasks or subjects and also to compare and contrast them, I assure you none of this would be possible for me without the natural calming effect cannabis has on me.

I’m living off grid on limited power so I’m going to have to revisit this issue in a follow up article but I feel I have to get this stuff off my chest and in to the public domain, I hope this reads ok and that you get something from it, on a personal note I already feel it has helped me put some things in better context.? Thanks for staying until the end, until next time!