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Thursday, May 03, 2012

585: Just Say No

I turned on and tuned in the TV (come on, everybody does it, man), and a serious voice calmly intoned the following serious calm important serious calm words:
Support information about drugs can be found on the Hollyoaks website...
If the programme immediately proceeding this announcement was not Hollyoaks then the world has some explaining to do. Imagine a situation where the end credits roll on a serious documentary about the damaging effects of drugs and drug abuse on lives, families and society. The war and murder in Columbia and Afghanistan; the drug mules languishing in Korean prisons or dying from exploded internally-concealed packages; the idiot user contributing to all this while damaging themselves; the addict sleeping in their own waste and stealing from their own mother at knife point; the babies born with heroin addictions or intravenously-contracted AIDS; the parents, children and partners who must help their loved one through their addictions, cope with their death or imprisonment. Picture all this, then remember the phrase:
Support information about drugs can be found on the Hollyoaks website...
Don't go to the Hollyoaks website. Go to a friend, family member, teacher, FRANK. Try them yourself and form your own opinion. (Try them and remember the mass of organised crime you are supporting, a system that could be undermined if drugs were legalised and controlled.) Go to a legal highs forum and read about people shitting their pants on salvia. Go to a public toilet and write questions on the walls in crayon and lipstick. Go to the doctors. Go to an ice cream seller. Go to an ancestor's grave. Go to hell. Go anywhere but the fucking Holly-fucking-oaks web-shitting-site. Just say no. Don't do it.

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