Chemical Escapes 2
This is getting ridiculous.
Hot on the heels of the Alabang Boys, a student from Saint Benilde was caught in a buy-bust operation selling cocaine.
I could simply be having a knee-jerk reaction to my world getting smaller, or maybe I feel a secret kinship with people who depend on chemicals to function. For the record, I don't do coke regularly. It's overrated and overpriced for such a short (albeit clean) buzz. Honestly, who does coke anymore? First world junkies are exchanging it for crack --our shabu-- so Third world junkies are, what, recreating the OC in QC (or any part of Metro Manila)?
Drugs, like any other lucrative business, follows the golden rule of supply and demand. First world demand for coke is going down, so ship that shit to Third world countries and cater to upper-middle class kids with MTV in their eyes. Make it glamorous, make it hip, you've got yourself a best seller.
Ecstacy, on the other hand, the likes of which the Alabang Boys have hoarded 60 pills of for 'personal use,' was so 1994.
I myself am a 'Don't panic, it's organic, and I'm a quantum mechanic' kinda girl. I smoke local, Baguio gold, helping Filipino farmers or something. Which doesn't make me better than anyone at all. Still a druggie, but it's all about what we say to ourselves to feel better, innit? For the record as well, a 1.53 GWA is magna cum laude standing so everyone can suck it.
The bottom line is, while blame can be democratically spread between the druggies, the dealers, the parents and teachers, everyone is culpable for this tradgedy. Young people getting hooked on susbtances to feel better about themselves and the world they move in.
We are taught all our lives that happiness can be bought by having these designer shoes, or branded jeans. Bliss is tangible through softdrinks, cellphones, cars, etc. Who's to blame when we believe some stranger who tells us relief comes with the right pill, powder, or plant?
Hot on the heels of the Alabang Boys, a student from Saint Benilde was caught in a buy-bust operation selling cocaine.
I could simply be having a knee-jerk reaction to my world getting smaller, or maybe I feel a secret kinship with people who depend on chemicals to function. For the record, I don't do coke regularly. It's overrated and overpriced for such a short (albeit clean) buzz. Honestly, who does coke anymore? First world junkies are exchanging it for crack --our shabu-- so Third world junkies are, what, recreating the OC in QC (or any part of Metro Manila)?
Drugs, like any other lucrative business, follows the golden rule of supply and demand. First world demand for coke is going down, so ship that shit to Third world countries and cater to upper-middle class kids with MTV in their eyes. Make it glamorous, make it hip, you've got yourself a best seller.
Ecstacy, on the other hand, the likes of which the Alabang Boys have hoarded 60 pills of for 'personal use,' was so 1994.
I myself am a 'Don't panic, it's organic, and I'm a quantum mechanic' kinda girl. I smoke local, Baguio gold, helping Filipino farmers or something. Which doesn't make me better than anyone at all. Still a druggie, but it's all about what we say to ourselves to feel better, innit? For the record as well, a 1.53 GWA is magna cum laude standing so everyone can suck it.
The bottom line is, while blame can be democratically spread between the druggies, the dealers, the parents and teachers, everyone is culpable for this tradgedy. Young people getting hooked on susbtances to feel better about themselves and the world they move in.
We are taught all our lives that happiness can be bought by having these designer shoes, or branded jeans. Bliss is tangible through softdrinks, cellphones, cars, etc. Who's to blame when we believe some stranger who tells us relief comes with the right pill, powder, or plant?