The U.S. has 4.1% of the world’s population. Americans take over 42% of all prescription drugs taken in the world, and we have actually a shorter life expectancy than other nations. Why do we take so many drugs? Simple! Because we see on the boob tube, animated commercials featuring little foreign bodies clogging up our blood vessels, legs twitching, guys unable to get it up, and the list to me is comical. “Fools Rush In,” is part of a great Glenn Miller song title. “Where Angels Fear To Tread,” is the last part, but you have to be a geezer like me to remember when pop music was actually beautiful and romantic. At any rate, fools rush to their docs to request a prescription for some drug they saw advertised which featured animations of mythical happenings of goings on in mythical bodies. The Docs gladly prescribe, and the morons happily go to the local drug counter and plunk down their dollars to ingest this junk, which is probably a total hoax. There is an outfit which has as its sole purpose, the invention of names for new drugs.
Why do we do this more than other nations? Because we allow these commercials on the air. No other nation allows these commercials other than New Zealand, and they’re considering a ban on them. No, I’m not against the First Amendment. Foolish Americans believe every utterance of CNBC and Bloomberg, plus those silly commercials promising new sexual vitality, calm legs, and clear arteries. They invest dollars in CD’s. stocks, and prescription whatchamaycallits, and think they have arrived at heaven’s gates.
I’ve said this before, and I’ll repeat it. Maybe I have good genes, and maybe I live a good life, but at age 73, I take no drugs, but lots of vitamins and minerals. My Dad was a corner druggist and I grew up in his drug store, which was a marvelous way to grow up; learning how to sell, wrap packages, stock shelves, be polite, and get fat having my way behind the marble soda fountain, but above all, having vitamins given to me throughout childhood. I also watched my Dad and his pharmacists fill prescriptions when a pharmacist really did his job rather than just transfer pills from one bottle to another. They made ointments, suppositories, and filled capsules by hand. My Dad’s drug store had all sorts of things drug stores no longer have, to fill prescriptions in those days. Mortar and pestle was used, and not just as a decoration!
So I am healthy. My cholesterol, blood pressure, etc, are very normal, and I wouldn’t dream of taking a drug, unless I was actually sick, and I can’t remember when that was. I then offer you my list of stuff I take every day, if you are interested. Take what I take, and you may feel much better, I don’t know. But it certainly won’t hurt you. This stuff can be bought at any super market or vitamin store, with the exception of the 3MG of iodine, which may be a bit difficult. At any rate, I’ll send it to you if you e-mail me at gold@gwe.net.
As far as the illegal ones, I have never tried any of them. I might like them! I wish I had never taster ice cream. Heroin, cocaine, and their like, used to be absolutely legal, and could have been bought over the counter at any “DRUG STORE” 70 years ago. Where do you think the name came from? People weren’t dying, and government was a lot smaller. Are they harmful? I am sure they are, just like all the prescription drugs Americans swallow daily are too, but which are legal. Cigarettes are legal, and kill millions each year. If they kill or maim, so what? Let the fools and weaklings die, and we’ll be rid of them. Making anything ’illegal’ only makes idiots want to do it, plus it makes the inept get rich. Why should drug dealers get rich? They get rich by selling prohibited substances to people who want them…or the market at work. Make them legal, tax the hell out of them like gasoline, whiskey and tobacco, and the drug pushers will have to get a job. Crime will decrease by about 50% except the crimes committed by the D.C. Gang, stock brokerages, and used car salesmen of all sorts, including numismatic dealers. Do I write this stuff to attract business? Hell no, as it probably hurts my business, but each one is probably a chapter in my next book, or at least it lets me vent my spleen, and besides I have enough business anyway. Want to buy it? It isn’t foe sale, because if someone bought it, I’d get bored, and my people wouldn’t be happy. Have a great weekend, and if you’re anywhere near Durango, it’s Railfest weekend with lots of steam, Galloping Geese, and the 315 is restored, and is a wonderful little engine, which you might have seen in “Around The World in 80 Days,” (original one with David Nevin). That film damn near destroyed the little gem. It has taken several years and a million bucks to make it new again, and I am proud to have contributed several hundred towards its restoration. Any rail fans in the New York area? I have a cap I’ll send you, which you may like.