Come and listen to a story full of intrigue and very real danger. Statins and weed and prisoners, oh my!
It’s the story of how an organized crime ring called the pharmaceutical industry unleashed fear and deceit, and will stop at nothing to corner the market on drug dealing. Cornering the market is a form of war, and war creates prisoners–literally speaking.
It took decades for the sordid story of pharma to fully emerge, but feast your eyes on the progress that’s now been made. The statistics below tell the tale of how many competitors have been taken off the streets, leaving much bigger profits for the winners of the war for drugs. Yes, I meant to say war FOR drugs.
You don’t actually believe you’re supporting a war ON drugs, do you? No indeed, it has been a war FOR drugs all along. It’s been an all out war by pharma (another day, another war) to own control of human pain and suffering in its many forms, by owning perceived relief.
I have to admit it…the War On Drugs was built around a brilliant marketing plan — especially the tactic of using the police force as D.A.R.E. officers to spread the gospel chosen by pharma. This wasn’t exactly a new tactic, since organized crime has always brought the police into collusion with them. Still, using the police to scare children took the old tactic to a new level.
And how brilliant that a simple word substitution reveals the truth behind the campaign. To win the war for drugs, let’s market it as a war on drugs. Perfect! I can actually imagine the conversations and meetings that continue to orchestrate this campaign with such stone-faced cunning. It makes me shudder to think of it.
The biggest collateral damage of this positioning war by pharma is undoubtedly the effects of their products. How about Olestra products, for the pain of weight control issues when you just can’t stop eating chips…just watch out for the anal leakage. (Yes, we have pharma products in our food). Or how about the new secondary anti-depressant your doctor needs to prescribe because the first one doesn’t do the job? But the collateral damage second-runner-up is the increasing numbers of ‘prisoners of war’. The picture above only depicts Federal prisons; if state prisons were included, most of the base map would be covered, and the “Land of the Free” motto suddenly would become laughable.
It’s estimated that ~70% of the overall US prison population committed drug-related crimes. You have to ask yourself why there are so many more drug-related crimes today? Seems to me that pharma’s criminal marketing strategy is working quite well, and will continue to work until enough people take off their blinders and see that they’re being played by a bad-ass playa who could give two shits about their health or their pain.
