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While goofing off today when I should have been working, I had to smile at the following story, which says at least some bad old baby boomers are still getting high:

Baby Boomers Still Using Illegal Drugs

Some baby boomers are continuing to use illicit drugs as they grow older. The number of 50-somethings who say they took drugs within the past year has nearly doubled from 5.1 percent in 2002 to 9.4 percent in 2007, according to a new analysis by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA).

Among all other age groups the rates of drug use stayed the same or decreased. Over the same time period marijuana use among Americans age 50 to 59 increased from 3.1 to 5.7 percent and nonmedical utilization of prescription drugs climbed to 4 percent in 2007 from 2.2 percent in 2002.

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Well now, I don’t know about you, but I’d much rather see my fellow boomers having a toke now and again than I would see them scarfing down the horrible so-called “medications” that the “your doctor” types prescribe so willy nilly.

I mean, seriously, it’s stunning to me how stupid most people must be who watch prescription drug commercials on TV and who then go to their doctors and actually request the meds they’ve seen promoted so vigorously on the boob tube.

Really, what kind of idiot are you if you think TV advertised drugs are safe when almost 30 seconds of many of the one minute commercials are devoted to monstrous side effects like…

• suicidal thoughts
• insomnia
• incontinence
• nausea
• depression
• an erection lasting four hours

Well, maybe the last one might not be so monstrous… though at four hours, whoa, it just could be… really monstrous.

But I digress.

Back to the subject at hand.

I guess the point of this little rant is that the endless drug commercials on TV tend to piss me off, especially when so many fellow Americans are locked in prisons for using drugs that are less potent and significantly less dangerous than the junk the medical community and pharmaceutical goons are dealing to gullible senior citizens (as well as younger people) in this country.

What’s the difference between legal and illegal drugs in this country?

Not much.

You get both from pushers of one stripe or another, don’t you?

How absurd is it that some of the pushers spend much of their lives in prison for selling their junk while some of the other pushers vacation in the Bahamas for selling their “medications”?

Something stinks up the joint in this equation, don’t you think?