As the drug war in Mexico continues to escilate, I thought those who read my blog should join with me in contemplation as to the effects our choices have on fellow humans, national neighbors, and ultimately our own country.
The following is from a post at longviewcurrent.org:
“Javier Morena, the five-year-old son of Mexican fruit sellers, in Mexico City last November, was playing outside of his mother and father’s fruit stand when he was kidnapped by a local drug cartel. NPR’s Mexico correspondent, Jason Beaubien, reported that the assailants took Morena via cab to a rundown house where they waited for ransom.
When the parents could not afford a ransom, they turned to the police for help. Shortly after doing so, the kidnappers killed the five-year-old by holding down the struggling boy and stabbing him in the heart with a hypodermic needle filled with battery acid.”
I’ve always questioned why the hell people do drugs. As someone who lives straight edge, I have a serious disconnect with the culture of intoxication in all it’s various forms. 
However, with the death toll of the Mexican drug war ever rising (3,141 killed already this year and nearly 20,00 since 2006), I think the more poignant question is for those who choose not to simply remove themselves from the destructive cycle of drug and alcohol use. Where do your drugs come from?
If you smoke marijuana, you may laud on it’s peaceful vibe and apparent inability to become addictive. But do you know where your weed comes from? If not, there is a damn good chance that it comes from the same people who pumped little Javier’s chest full of battery acid. Of course, maybe it came from the drug cartel in Juarez who, in January, gunned down sixteen teenagers at a party for no apparent reason. If it came from your friend Smokey’s hydroponics lab, good for you! But I’m willing to bet it didn’t.
If you use cocaine: STOP.
I have no doubt that 99.9% of people who use the “designer drug” don’t oversee the production of it to ensure it’s not linked to the travesties mentioned above.
This isn’t the Regan era anymore, ladies and gentlemen.
Your use of these substances isn’t rebellious, cool, or valuable to your roll as a non-conformist.
The purchase and use of these substances is quickly becoming a human rights epidemic that can no longer be ignored by the fairweather, on-campus revolutionary with a Bob Marley poster in his dorm nor by the “live-in-the-moment” partier who recycles all of her PBR cans and volunteers at the pitbull rescue.
Think about what you are doing/buying/enjoying before you contribute to another kidnapping or murder.
Read/Hear more:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican_Drug_War#Impact_on_Human_Rights
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=96805510
