It's Not Me, It's You

Chris Rock once did a bit about making all drugs illegal and kids will go in their basements and becomes scientists finding new ways to get high. Well, that's what they did. I have a former co-workers' friend who became a pharmacist because he liked taking ecstasy and found a way, minus a component or two, to make a psuedo-version.

Then there were bath salts and the proliferation of synthetic marijuana. The synthetic marijuana once had 15 versions within a few years has exponentially increased to about 3,000 and deaths to go along with it. Recently, an 18 year old had died from using K2 and another got sentenced for killing his roommate and deemed mentally unstable because of prolonged use of K2. The immediate - and only - outcry from this is to make these illegal.

There is also a big intersection here in Papillion at 204th and Harrison where it's very busy and dangerous and several fatalities and there's been an outcry for a traffic light there. The main street has a 55 mph speed limit, though they all say, "it's common for drivers to exceed that." So there's this big push to spend all this money to get a traffic light there.

The selfishness in recent political thinking where it's like, "I don't have children so why do I have to pay property taxes to fund the schools?," is the selfishness that people think like these days. Anthony Weiner rebutted a comment like that saying that if you buy a car, they have hooks in the back to attach a carseat to; we do all sorts of things like these where we do things together to help out all people. It's like me asking my money back for the Iraq war or for traffic lights and roundabouts and stop signs because people don't know how to become better, safer drivers.

Illegalizing drugs is not the solution. Chris Rock was right! We need better solutions like understanding and legalizing and regulating. If pot (which do not have deaths and destruction attached to its use) were legal, this synthetic version would not exist. On that same note, instead of spending all this time, money, and lives on this intersection, people should learn to drive better. All these accidents are preventable. If people drive the speed limit, leave an appropriate following distance, avoid left turns (finding a better intersection to do it from, maybe another with a light), scanning ahead at intersections, not running yellow and red lights, not texting, not pulling into a crosswalk at a stop sign or red light at 30 mph without even checking for other pedestrians or cyclists, turning at a green light without even checking for other pedestrians or cyclists. All these things people do without realizing their vehicles are destructive weapons. They're so selfish and arrogant with their driving abilities when they've just been lucky. So why are my tax dollars and safety being compromised by this type of mentality? How are we to teach our (statistically proven to be bad and dangerous drivers) teenagers to be safe drivers when we, ourselves as parents, are unwilling to set an example? There are such easy solutions to problems but people can't get away from politics, ignorance, and arrogance and it's another factors to our society's deterioration.