Sir;...I look at the wide spread use of drugs as a war too...It is a war on a meaningless existence... Do you think drugs might kill you??? All the better than dieing old and neglected, kicked around like so much trash while you stew in you own crap... We don't understand what gets taken out of people a nickle at a time... We don't understand how hard they work, or how much they worry... We don't understand their pain because we refuse to admit, and address our own pain... Look about you... Who isn't living on drugs??? Who isn't craving sex, or power, or a drink, or danger, or adventure???Anyone who wants to tell you how great capitalism is, or how great American society is, or how great Christianity is should start counting up all the maimed, the dead, and walking wounded... These forms we value so highly are kiliing us, because they leave us so unsatisfied that we dare death to come and eat us alive...I'm not going to tell you how great drugs are...I don't want to know...I will tell you we are asking the wrong questions in regard to drugs.. We should be asking why everyone is so much in a hurry to escape reality... Even when reality is as good as it ever gets, everyone always needs that little extra jolt... Got a beautiful wife who loves you, and gives you all you can handle??? Go find another, so she can have company....I know the magic number, and it is: enough... Why enough is never enough to this society will never be known while we do not know how to love... With our communities gone we must seek our dreams... With our dreams gone we must escape our pain... We must run like rabid dogs from one end of our lives to the other, never getting back from life what we must put in to survive, and with every bad exchange we make we are more unhappy, more frustated, and more resentful...Where is the life with justice without meaning??? You look at it...If a person has to work ten times to buy what he produces once, that is nine tenths of his life gone that he will never get back.... And so we live in a world with the old Nordic God, Wish.... We wish for quiting time.. We wish the clock would move as quickly at work as out of work... We wish for payday, and wish there were more money in it... And in the end we wish our lives away, and wonder where it all went... When one third of almost every day is adding to the injustice and frustration of life, how can we ever recover... There is never enough time between shifts to recover from the indignity and contumely of the last shift... If we were not so cheap...If our time were not valued so impossibly low, perhaps we could value ourselves more... We are degraded by the very process of keeping body and soul together... For what??? If the rich can piss away our labor like it is nothing...If they can throw bodies into war, or grind them up at work like so much hamburger, then why should they value us, and why should we value us??? Let me tell you what it is for: The more meaningless the process of production becomes, the more of meaninglessness will be produced....We all know that drugs destroy lives... That is not the consequence of drugs, but the object....It is the last gasp of freedom to take into your own hands the power of life and death... We know these lives we lead are nothing but spiritual and physical death shined up and advertized... People know when they are getting robbed, humiliated, and demoralized.... We don't need to work as hard, or as long, or as often to have all we have now and more...We don't have to submit to drug tests and butt checks, and bosses spying on us....They work those they hire too hard so they can be treatened with the unemployed to work even harder...When are all the robots we compete against, and all our labor saving devices going to reduce our work day???It does not matter how many people are canned... The same production has got to support the whole society...Why do those who stand idle have to be degraded??? There are not enough jobs for them anyway while some are working two, and not getting by.... Let me go on about it.... A few smart ideas does not a smart society make.... We all need to get wise to make this society work... Don't do the bosses any favors by neutralizing yourself... Tell him how you really feel... Drug use is a form of communication... So is violence... So is shedding bitter tears and the unreachable price of life...Thanks...Sweeney