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Narcan™ is a drug that is used to address heroin overdoses. It was unknown here in Western New York until the heroin problem extended its deadly reach into the suburbs.

When inner city (read poor, African-American, Latino(a)) people were dying from drug overdoses, the “cure” was more policing, harsher drug sentences, and jail or prison time.

When drug overdoses began happening in the suburbs (read wealthier and mostly white), a “cure”was needed. Enter Narcan™, the “miracle working drug” that can reverse the effects of a a fatal overdose and save a life.

Now some “enlightened individuals” want to decriminalize marijuana, up to 2 oz. carried on a person, and allow individuals 18 and older to be able to grow no more than 6 marijuana plants in their houses in order to address the epidemic of people having criminal records for possession, sale, and distribution of a controlled substance. A substance, like alcohol, that has a history going back to ancient times.

Heroin, marijuana use, alcoholism – These are social problems to be sure. But they are symptoms of a larger problem. That problem is called alienation.

In the capitalist economic system, a person only has value if they can generate a profit for the system. When that ability stops, the person is no longer needed and becomes a burden on the system. Sad to say, many people know this and, while successful by the system's standards, see the clock ticking on the wall and can not see when the alarm will wake them up to the reality that they are no longer needed. A machine can now do their job or it has been sent someplace else where the same work can be done for less, making the capitalists more profits.

And they need some way to numb that pain.

Enter drugs and alcohol.

Which can lead to addiction, overdoses, and alcoholism – among other social problems.

Which leads to crime, death, and despair.

Narcan™ solves the problem of a potentially deadly overdose.

Marijuana decriminalization/legalization solves the problem of mindless arrests and prison.

Neither one solves the problem of alienation, which gives us streets full of walking dead everyday.

And that should scare you more than Halloween.