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What the Block Parents Association did not learn
Dear Editor:
Presenting one side of the argument such
as the dangers of crystal meth without balance or perspective is nothing
but a good old fashioned witch hunt. Guest speakers Heinrich Kramer and
James Sprenger would have been invited to present the Hammer of Witches
as the last word with every authority at the ready to concur just to
give the appearance of official sanction.
What the Crowsnest Pass Block Parents
Association did not learn was that "crystal meth" has the brand name of
Desoyxn. Desoyxn is prescribed to unruly school children and the obese
who do not have to suffer from impurities from paint thinner and brake
fluid. Adulterated drugs are a consequence of the political policy of
prohibition. Adulterated alcohol was responsible for scores of blinding
and deaths when prohibition was the political policy of the day too.
Running to the Center for Addiction and
Mental Health for statements on addiction would have been no different
than running down to the church for an opinion on witches. Addiction is
a culturally conditioned stigmatizing term that reflect more about what
the people believe than any true property of periodic table elements.
Addiction falls on receptive ears in theologic based society conditioned
to believe in demonic possession. Spiritual Death is what addiction was
called when the church ruled.
Lust for pleasure vices and being a
glutton about it is what got you there. Today we live in a therapeutic
state which evolved from the theologic state so we have learned how to
do all our moralizing in medical sounding terms. All that may be in line
with the intellectual expectations of our age, but periodic table
elements still do not have supernatural powers of allurement. It is in
the forbidding of fruit where in all the powers of allurement are
unleashed according to the parable of The Fall.
Drug taking is a moral issue just as
assuredly as is alcohol drinking. Yielding to temptation is not a
disease. Having a moralist give you an earful to mend your ways to be
more in line with the Christian culture is not medical treatment no
matter what the experts tell you. The question begs of why in a free and
open society like Canada no one would think to invite a pharmacologist
along to explain what the properties of crystal meth are. And no one
ever invites an anthropologist to these affairs least the ceremonial and
ritual aspect of a drug taking human civilization be brought up. Those
two groups of professionals have a very different view on drugs and
their uses than the demonizers who presented their personal stories to
the CPBPA. that's why none were invited. A revival of Biblical
proportions is what really went on at the CPBPA event.
Chris Buors
Winnipeg, Manitoba
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