It's a thing

We all have our thing. You have one, you know you do.

Coffee is a thing. We aren’t buying it every day for the taste, it doesn’t taste that good. We are all getting something from Coffee. Coffee is one of my things.

Alcohol is a thing. It is a big thing. For some, it is totally messing up their lives and the lives of their family and friends, for some others it is way too important. For still others it a small pleasure (that is how it’s my thing). It’s a thing.

There are all sorts of ‘things’. Slot machines, breasts, cigarettes, pizza, lotteries, big rear ends, small tight rear ends, driving fast, all things. I haven't covered all the different things there are, not even close.

Pot is a thing. It’s not my thing but it’s a thing. It is a thing like alcohol, but without the puking. For some it ruins their lives and the lives of family and friends, for some it way too important and for others it’s a small pleasure. Canada is on its way to making this thing the same as alcohol. It won’t change the way it’s a thing except it will make it a safer thing, no longer a black market thing, no longer a back alley, thing, or an organized crime thing.

Hard drugs are a thing. They are not most people’s thing. They ruin a lot of lives, they are really addictive like some of the other things (cigarettes). We don’t accept the hard drug thing. We have fought long and hard but it is still a thing. By fighting it we have made the lives of the people whose thing it is very bad. They are downtrodden, jailed, punished by the law and by the street. Because their thing isn’t your thing they are in trouble. If we would let them have their thing, stop punishing, separating, abandoning them, would their thing not be easier for us to live with? If we stop the drug war organized crime would wither. If people with the hard drug thing had easy safe access would we be safer?