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drug war propaganda theme 6 - demonize, war, epidemic
"the 'war'...
victims are characterized as young children"
(above: an example of the term "Drug War", here
used in the movie Reefer Madness, circa 1936.)
The prohibition propaganda which has surrounded the presently
illicit drugs represents a blatant manipulation of the symbols
of evil that would do credit to
Jonathan Edwards.
Nothing can
so excite an adult population as can anything which appears to
threaten their own children.
Drug usage is characterized as
"contagious;"
its increase (real or imagined) is characterized as an
"epidemic."
Efforts to reduce drug usage are referred to as the
"war" on or
"battle"
against drug abuse.
Persons who sell are called
"pushers"
in spite of increasing
evidence that most persons get drugs, particularly their first
drug, from friends and not some arch villain who seduced them on
a street corner.
ASSASSIN of YOUTH! MARIHUANA - feeding the god Moloch (c.1943)
(Rat-on-A-Rat-Poster, c.2003)
"deliberate
dehumanisation
...
contains a double message of contempt, comparing not only
drug-dealers to rats but also those who are encouraged to
inform upon them"
In the morality play media often presents as "the drug war",
the demon/devil drug pusher is so much an hackneyed and
"stock" character that his cliched and stock image is even
offered up by firms which produce "stock" images.
(from IStockPhoto.com, circa 2008).
Wonder Drug Cover-Up: Yes, it's true: pot fights cancer.
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As Bad For Your Lungs As Smoking 20 Normal Cigarettes? 20 times more likely to cause cancer than tobacco? Why does the US Government make cannabis researchers use only Government-issued marijuana?
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