Legal drug industry wants you dead — after you pay them for it

The Iowa Gov­er­nor’s Office of Drug Con­trol Pol­i­cy is at it again, this time com­par­ing a mar­i­jua­na cig­a­rette to a keg of beer.

What’s even more annoy­ing is the spokesper­son for the legal drug indus­try, Peter Komen­dows­ki, pres­i­dent of Part­ner­ship for a Drug-Free Iowa.

In an arti­cle in Today’s Des Moines Reg­is­ter, Mr. Komen­dows­ki is quot­ed as say­ing, “What we’re doing,” said Komen­dows­ki, “is send­ing a mixed mes­sage to our kids that some drugs are OK and some aren’t OK. If you know kids, it’s extreme­ly con­fus­ing to them if you’re not on mes­sage.”

And what is that mixed mes­sage, pray tell, Mr. Komen­dows­ki? Steven Lukan, the direc­tor of the Governor’s Office of Drug Con­trol Pol­i­cy, quick­ly sup­plies the answer, “A good anal­o­gy I was giv­en is that back in the ’60s, smok­ing a joint was like drink­ing three beers. You achieved a quick high that did­n’t stick around as long,” Lukan said. “Today smok­ing a joint can be like drink­ing a keg.”

So, the mes­sage we’re cur­rent­ly send­ing, accord­ing to these two, is that alco­hol is okay and mar­i­jua­na is not. Pre­scrip­tion drugs are okay and mar­i­jua­na is not. That mes­sage is exact­ly the oppo­site of what it should be. These intel­lec­tu­al­ly bank­rupt rep­re­sen­ta­tives of the legal drug indus­try haven’t made a step toward mak­ing alchohol and tobac­co ille­gal in Iowa, or deny­ing access to pre­scrip­tion drugs. Alco­hol and tobac­co, along with pre­scrip­tion drugs, are the biggest killers out there. Mar­i­jua­na has nev­er killed any­one.

So, the mes­sage, kids, is that you should drink lots of alco­hol and smoke lots of cig­a­rettes so you can get sick and use lots of pre­scrip­tion drugs. Got it? Good, now shut up and do what you’re told.

I don’t know about you, but I’d vote for Rep­re­sen­ta­tive Bruce Hunter or Sen­a­tor Joe Bolk­com for gov­er­nor in the next elec­tion if I had the oppor­tu­ni­ty. Both of them promised to fight vig­or­ous­ly for the rights of Iowans to choose a safe and effec­tive med­i­c­i­nal herb over tox­ic chem­i­cals cho­sen for us by the legal drug indus­try.