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When Smoke Gets in Their Eyes
by Michael S. True → (All Poetry by Michael S. True)
Wednesday, September 21, 2016    Rated "PG" by the Author.
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Isn't it time we took that closer look?



I heard somebody mention
That driving is none too safe.
Or bicycling, for that matter,
But we do it any way.

People live by taking chances,
They do it all the time.
But when it comes to choices
It seems we’ve lost our minds!

The FDA tells us what’s fit to eat
What beverages and medicines we can buy.
And only they can say what’s best for us,
So it comes as no surprise…

It’s the blind leading the blind
When smoke gets in their eyes!

They say that marijuana is useless,
Up to no conceivable good,
An unknown commodity,
That simply isn’t understood.

Not worth the time to study,
Though its use has long been known.
300,000 species of plants
And we ostracize just this one?

Motivation seem somehow suspect
With a history of propagandized lies.
Pandora has already opened this box
So why not look inside?


It’s the blind leading the blind
When smoke gets in their eyes!


7/21/13 last edit 9/ 21/16

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 Reviews of "When Smoke Gets in Their Eyes"
Reviewed by Susanne Leist
Reviewed on April 17, 2018
You aptly portray humanity as the blind leading the blind. Each person secure in his or her choice. When the smoke clears, what will we see?

Reviewed by Odin odin@aflx.com
Reviewed on September 25, 2016
Poignantly penned, worthy of further thought by the reader.

Reviewed by Ronald Hull
Reviewed on September 22, 2016
I agree. Prohibition brought on an era of terrible violence and almost everyone in the United States breaking the law. The same is true for all the drugs. The most dangerous drug according to statistical death is alcohol. We need to stop spending billions making drug users criminals and imprisoning them. We need to focus on health and wellness… Especially mental health that leads to addiction.

To those that wish to kill themselves with their favorite poison. I say, "Go ahead. But don't come to me asking for money to feed your habit."

I have mixed feelings about using drugs and marijuana. When I saw Timothy Leary being very lucid in a panel with another individual years after he started tripping on LSD, I was much impressed that his brain was still very much intact--he was brilliant in the discussion of the future.

I worked with several graduate students that smoked marijuana regularly. They all seemed very enthused and verbal about strange subjects they were interested in like subliminal advertising and ancient aliens. Invariably, I found their writing to be weak, repetitive and unresearched, not very sound or insightful. They never seemed to be able to get to the point. And they were working on their master degrees.

Ron

Reviewed by Michael Schafer
Reviewed on September 22, 2016
I'm with Jansen, The war on drugs is counter productive. Pot is the one drug that has never really hurt anyone, and yet it's treated like the demon seed. I feel it would be better to focus on education and treatment. The heroin epidemic says it all. We should be trying to take the criminal element out of drugs.

Michael D.

Michael D.

Reviewed by Jerry Bolton
Reviewed on September 21, 2016
I have smoked a joint here and there, and if it was left up to me the weed would not even be talked about. I can count on both hands over my life span that I ever smoked up. All it ever did for me was make me hungry and sleepy.

Reviewed by Jansen Estrup
Reviewed on September 21, 2016
Nice job, MST - Time to end the War on Drugs - especially this one.


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