Drugs and Junkies

Drugs will be civilization's Downfall !  Years ago in small town America ,violent crime was almost non-existent. Our local news consisted of the weather, sports and community events.  Occassionly there was crime ,one murder every 2-3 years ,but locking the doors was optional because most people (at the time) respected other people's property. My husband would leave the keys in the ignition of our car. It was never bothered nor was anything ever stolen out of it. We would also go shopping and leave our house unlocked, nothing was ever stolen.  In a way our community was like "Pleasantville", nothing bad ever happened here. In all honesty parts of our town still looks like a Norman Rockwell painting.

Seventeen years ago our town's residents was introduced to the wonder drug "OxyContin". The time release narcotic pain reliever. It would take a few years for the drug to take hold and when it did the results were deadly. There would be a new addiction that we had never seen around here.

Sure we had a few potheads, but most kept to themselves. Marijuana was plentiful or could easily be grown around here. I never dabbled in pot myself but considering the drugs out there today, is pot really that bad?

Seriously, pot is grown in the ground. Not created by in some lab by scientists. Or created in a makeshift lab with items purchased (or stolen) from department and hardware stores. Chemicals that are toxic by themselves before combining with other poisons to create a deadly and highly addictive drug.  So is Pot really that bad?

The people I know that smoked marijuana DID NOT move on to stronger drugs nor did they deprive their families. OxyContin would soon change our town! Our sleepy picturesque town was rudely awoken.  The days of trusting others is over. OxyContin, heroin and Methamphetamine has taken up residence. And it has taken prisoners in our historical town. Because of the plague of drug abuse we finally caught up with rural America.

Good kids from good families, now have lengthy arrest records. Middle Class families have had to sell their homes to pay for rehab, businesses lost.  Drug abuse and violence touches everyone's life directly or indirectly.

Children are the true victims...