A neighbor of mine was shaking her head about the kids she sees daily at her job. She works at a field house that’s part of the Chicago Park District system. It’s one of the newer field houses, a nice facility that unfortunately, doesn’t offer much besides basketball and a fitness room. The people who live around the field house pushed to have it built, complaining that the kids nearby didn’t have a place where they could do some positive hanging out. Now that it’s up and running, it appears that the kids who do come in are causing problems.
“You can look in their eyes and tell that something is wrong with them,” my neighbor said. “Their mamas were doing drugs while they were pregnant with ‘em, and the kids were born with their brains messed up.” That’s something I often forget when the subject of hard-headed, unruly and out-of-control kids comes up. Many of them came out of the womb like that.
Whenever I hear some numbnut talking about legalizing drugs, I wonder if they also have a plan for society to deal with the kids of the drug addicts. The fallout that is happening right now, in terms of juvenile crime, out-of-control classrooms, and heavy loads of casework for social services agencies is already overwhelming as it is. It’s getting worse as the months and years go by. Some kids just can’t be reached because they’ve already got the effects of weed, pills, etc. in their systems telling them to do as much damn damage as they can. Very few of them, if any of them, are ever going to out from underneath the drug fog they were born out of, thanks to their clueless, stupid, brain-dead addicts they have for parents.
I agree that children who are born to mothers who were using drugs during their pregnancy may suffer from cognitive impairments when compared to children who were not exposed to those chemicals in utero. However drugs are illegal and those people who choose to do drugs managed to get their hands on their drug of choice while pregnant anyway regardless of the current laws. Therefore it is safe to say that people who want to poison their bodies with those substances will find a way to do so no matter what the laws are. I choose not to do drugs because I respect my body and my mind. If the laws were changed to legalize drugs I’m not going to go out and buy it just because the laws have changed. Cigarettes are a legal poison too, but you don’t see me smoking! Alcohol can be extremely detrimental to fetal development but it’s still legal too. (Don’t forget what happened when people tried to make it illegal.) My point is that personal responsibility cannot be entirely governed by external laws. That is why I think it’s a waste of time and money to keep drugs illegal. However I’m sure the folks in government would disagree because I’m sure they’re making money off of it somehow. You cannot prevent people from bring stupid and irresponsible and it’s certainly not the governments job to do so either.
Comment by Serafina — October 15, 2009 @ 12:03 am |