ah, mephistophelis.: No Wonder They Are Losing The Drug War!

Johanna Faust, a mixed race Jew, prefers to publish pseudonymously. She is committed: first, to preventing war, ecological disaster, and nuclear apocalypse; last to not only fighting for personal privacy & the freedom of information, but, by representing herself as a soldier in that fight, to exhorting others to do the same. She is a poet, always. All these efforts find representation here: "ah, Mephistophelis" is so named after the last line of Christopher Marlowe's Dr. Faustus, whose heretical success flouted the censor for a time.

No Wonder They Are Losing The Drug War!

Seriously, people. You have got to have better things to do. Like meditate, or spin in a circle, or get in a hot tub, or get a massage -- all of which may alter your attitude (here's a secret: that's what it means to get 'high') and/or change your perspective. Which, if you were buying this load of scaremongering propaganda, you probably need, seeing as you are at best an ossified and useless irrelevance, and at worst an abusive asshole. How about going hiking -- maybe with your kids? When was the last time you hung out with your kids? If you harangue them, it doesn't count. If you guilt-trip them, it doesn't count. If you threaten them, it doesn't count. If you put them down, it doesn't count. How about you try listening?

NEWSFLASH:

YOUR CHILDREN DO NOT BELONG TO YOU.

THEY BELONG TO THEMSELVES.

THEIR MINDS ARE THEIR OWN.

Try being their friends.

Friendship, like love, is between equals.

Be seeing you.