that any sane person will become a drug addict if he knows what drug addiction is like. Many whole-heartedly agree with this statement because they are active advocates of natural selection that applies greatly to drug abuse, provided the user is not mentally ill. Vidal ended his assertion of the popular issues by stating that people will always become drug addicts, as people will always become alcoholics and forbidding people the things they like will make them want it even more. This is absolutely true because Americans are most definitely taken aback and angered when their freedoms are suddenly made punishable by the interference of governmental bureaucracy. It is, in my mind, eminently disconcerting to even attempt to perceive why the government could not look back at the initial reasons for the foundation of our "free country" and realize what happens when individual liberties are taken away by an oppressive, outside force and conclude that those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it. When the government refuses or disagrees with this statement, I believe that they are overlooking the fact that our meager two hundred years of existence as a liberated and free country is after all a very minute frame of reference in the greater scheme of human life. To finalize his essay, Vidal, in paragraph nine, assessed the profiteering of bureaucratic government through the manipulation of drug supply and trafficking. He stated that the government was killing people through the curtail of Mexican marijuana which led to an increase in deaths due to an increase in heroin use which is much more dangerous than marijuana use. As the "bureaucratic machine vested interest in playing cops and robbers" they were obviously insensitive to the deaths that they caused because they were predominantly obsessed with the rise in the cost of illegal marijuana which provided a market for organized crime and a profit for the Bureau of Narcoti...
