It’s probably worth asking ourselves why the population feels the need to escape reality, if we want to reverse the trend.
I’m not just talking marijuana, I mean, look at how many people nowadays take legal “anti-depressants”, which are psychoactive mood-enhancers themselves. I think there’s a fundamental dissatisfaction in our society, and people feel there is nothing they can do to change the situation, so they retreat to these things.
There are some groups in this country that think it is necessary to brutally beat people to get their point across. Some attack a person though social media or advertisers in an effort to change reality.
No, the RATs have a religion, and its name is Psychology...the high priests are the psychiatrists. If you believe them, everybody has some kind of mental shortcoming, and if you give the government experts enough time, they will diagnose you with a disorder which requires treatment.
If you don't believe me, just ask some poor schlub who made the grave mistake of asking the DHHS (Department of Hell and Human Sacrifice) to help them with their kids. The DHHS Nazis often take them away, for no good reason, and then proceed to run both the kids and the parents through a Liberal Hell on Earth. They wind up spending thousands of taxpayer dollars on worthless and unneeded "therapies" treating such things as "separation anxiety" and requiring "anger management" classes.
(See: Logan Marr) (See: Janet Reno...child abuse)
The RAT welfare shrinks, diagnosing anyone who requests help, and treating them with drugs, accomplishes several things:
1) It justifies the existence of the myriad of state funded "behavioral therapy" non-profits
2) It makes the medical welfare patient totally dependent on his gubmint drug dealer.
3) It locks the addict in as a RAT voter and buys his vote with your money.