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More and more adults and teens are popping pills for ADD, "generalized anxiety disorder" and other quasi-societal conditions. Is it time to retire our moralistic distinction between "recreational" and "medical" drugs?
  • Hear, hear.

    Amsden's right on. And as for the world being a tougher place to grow up and live in now, I find that really hard to believe. I mean, can you picture factory workers in the 19th Century lying around in bed all day, whining that they're too depressed to get up? Is life harder for you than for a soldier in WWI, or an African sharecropper? How do people get by?! How do they drag themselves out of bed!

    Why are such a disproportionate volume of these drugs consumed in America? Because poison fast food and television have made us sick, and convinced us we have ailments we don't really have.

    The only mental illness running rampant in the American population is hypochondria, fueled by drug companies' ability to slip one recreational drug after another past a crippled FDA and a crooked Congress.

    People, turn off the TV and ask yourself; what would you do if these drugs didn't exist? Would you give up and die? Would you stop going to work? Is life supposed to be easy? Stop eating the garbage they try to poison you with, turn off the permanent stream of propaganda, listen to your own heart beating for awhile. Is there really anything wrong with you? Or are you just an insatiable zombie slave to the slop trough?