The War on Drugs

Drugs are bad.  

I’m very much an anti-drug person; but anyone can get them. In a recent 5-year period, heroin overdoses went up by 40% despite the War on Drugs having been going on for 40 years. It’s not working. The unintended consequence has been that the street price mark-up is robust, and dealing drugs has been taken up by urban males. The difficult job of controlling this has fallen to the police, and there has been strife on both sides.  

Market forces are stronger than legal ones – a lesson we should remember and use to our advantage.

Urban males who have been shuffled through the failing urban schools, now have arrests on their records and cannot get good jobs. Our prisons are full of people with drug convictions and drug related gang activity. This all leads to a bigger problem of poverty and all the problems that come with it.

Unintended consequences always outnumber intended ones. By ending the war on drugs, (taking the market off the street) we can remove the alternative of dealing drugs to make a living, and leave no other option for urban males but finding a good job.  

Saving a lifetime of effort and experience

Sometimes a moment of insight can save you from pursuing the wrong path; one you would have been down for years to realize it was wrong, or maybe forever.

Can you save yourself a decade or so?

Good vs Evil

In the battle of good versus evil, good is at a disadvantage because it plays by the rules.

Evil doesn’t care about the rules.

Bet on yourself

How much do you invest in your own personal improvement?

Obstacles to Evil

“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil, is for good men to do nothing.”

When we see evil in any powerful or diluted form; something or someone going wrong in any area arena, we must stand in its way and say “NO”.

You wouldn’t just go along with it, would you?

Routine Self-Discipline

Successful people have made habits of doing the things that produce results.  Focused time, exercise, doing the hard stuff first, and doing things that are not fun without delay or complaint.

Is self discipline a “routine” for you?

Learn or start from scratch

Learning is necessary for human evolution.  How much time and money do you invest in learning what others found out the hard (long) way?

Mind/body connection

Your mind changes your body, AND your body changes your mind.

Sit (stand) up straight, hold your head high, breathe fully and smile.  

How do you feel?

Your time

The history of the world and your life story are written by the same hand.

You are significant.  Do you know this?

Gray to light

When you don’t want anything, don’t try to grow, and don’t aspire to be something greater than you are now, you live in a gray world of unfriendly, uncaring, useless things.  

But the man who has a goal and is trying to accomplish something, becomes awake to what has been in front of him all along; all he needs.