Say Boo to Drugs. Heart Attacks Are Okay.

October 23, 2009

23 Oct 2009

Here's a tip for the Uptown Greenwood Development Corporation and GwdToday.com: If you're going to pimp an event that contains the slogan "Say Boo to Drugs", then make sure one of the attractions at the event is not a heart-clogging eating contest.

The Hardees Monster Thickburger contains 215% of the daily recommended intake of saturated fat (the kind of fat that greatly contributes to several different cardiovascular diseases), and they want to see how many you can eat! But, hey, boo to drugs, right?



According to the CDC, heart disease is responsible for nearly one third of all deaths, making it the leading cause of death in the United States. Think about that. Out of all the ways we can come up with to die, heart disease takes more of us down than anything else. Death from drug use is not even in the top 50 of leading causes of death.

How many people were killed by marijuana in the past 12 months? ZERO. Same as the year before, and the year before that, and the year before that, and the year before that, and the year before that, and the year before that, and the year before that, and the year before that, and the year before that, and the year before that, and the year before that, and the year before that. More people died in 2007 from eating spinach than from smoking marijuana.

You know how much marijuana it would take to kill a human? 300 pounds -- but it would have to be dropped from the top of a 10-story building. The point is there has never been a recorded case of death by marijuana consumption in the entire history of the United States.

So, go ahead with your bad self and wolf down those Thickburgers. Just make sure you stay away from those nasty drugs. pfffft.



Note:
I wrote this, not to endorse hard drug use, but to highlight the raging hypocrisy with which we are all too often inundated.


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