Amy Winehouse: Reflections from Two Drug Policy Activists | AlterNet
We must—and this is perhaps most important of all—stop our barbaric stigmatization and stereotypes of people addicted to drugs. People like Amy endure a hell we can only imagine. The agony of being made into a ridiculous caricature, something less than human, for nothing more than our own casual amusement is beyond what any young person should ever be forced to endure. We targeted her, mocked her and cast her out as an irredeemable “crackhead” for nothing more than sport. It’s shameful. It’s too late for Amy to hear us now, but our apologies should be sent out en masse to her and to all others like her, struggling, surviving. +
If any of you stoners are making fun of her death just because she was a drug addict I’m fucking ashamed of you. It’s not hard for addiction to catch and destroy you, especially when you’re in a vulnerable place in life. We all (everyday smokers ) know how hard it can be not to smoke another bowl, to get up and do shit when we’re high, to give a shit about other things not relating to weed, or to even leave your fucking bed before smoking. How do any of us have to right to judge someone just like us? The only difference is the drug of choice and stage in life.
Be glad you chose weed.
- Chronic ( is the shit )
stop remembering her as an addict.
and start remembering her as a singer._____________________________________________________
i dont know where i stand.
rip girl,
