Drug companies promote drug addiction.

I am not dissing drug companies. They do what they do and they do it well. They create a market for drugs and then they sell drugs to that market.

Just good business.

But they have moved from selling drugs we need to creating a need for drugs.

They are better at it than crack salesman. And they're not against the law. They're free to do whatever their lobbyists can convince Congress they should be able to do. If crack salesman had lobbyists crack wouldn't be against the law. In fact, for most of our history cocaine has been legal. Cocaine was the coke in Coca-Cola.

We are now promoting drugs to children to combat "childhood" depression, or blue days. Blue days are a symptom of childhood.

To put children as young as three years old on antidepressants is, IMHO, beyond ridiculous. It is scandalous. Parents too busy to pay attention to their children's needs follow the prescriptions of "doctors". Doctors are the drug companies first line of offense.

Any doctor who treats childhood as a curable disease should be defrocked and run out of town. Our children are being taught pill popping is the answer for everything. They get started on mood elevators or mood levelers like Ritalin and they end up popping Vicodin like candy when they are old enough to convince a doctor they need medicinal help. And the doctors oblige. In Michael Jackson's case, he was obliged to death.

Alcohol is legal and it is perhaps the most destructive drug available.

Marijuana is illegal and it is perhaps the most constructive drug available.

We have no drug sense anymore. Gimme some Ritalin.