Yes, the Philippines is one of the highest users of Methamphetamine per population in the world, and that is bad. Meth or "Shabu" as it's locally known, is a very serious drug and it's very unhealthy, extremely addictive and causes more extreme behavior. However if you look at drug use per % population on a global scale, you will see that the Philippines only reaches the top 10 for Methamphetamine, and not by a wide spread. It's not even in first place! It comes in 2nd, behind El Salvador and barely ahead of Australia and New Zealand.

In fact, countries such as the United States, whom appear in the Top Drug-Using Countries By Drug image featured below, have more Shabu users total due to population alone, AND are in the top 10 for 7 of the 8 drug types listed. Listed at #1 for both Opiods and Prescription Opiods, #2 for Cannabis, and #3 for Cocaine (rich mans meth).

It may not be as easy to spot from a distance, but anybody without their eyes wide-shut, knows about it and just casually accepts it as part of how life is in our country.

Women, men, and homosexuals all participate in prostitution here. There are globally known red-light districts in Angeles City, Baguio, Boracay, Quezon City, Makati, Malate, Dumaguete, and more! Individuals (usually young girls) are recruited at young ages and told that they will only need to sit down, talk with the customers, pour their drinks, etc. As time passes, they gradually cross their own prescribed lines little by little until they reach the point where their former selves would no longer recognize them, and would be disgusted at whom they have become.

Prostitution and Mail-Order brides are BIG BUSINESS here, raking in millions of pesos per month. Police are bribed and paid-off, friends look the other way or even congratulate on the earnings and ask for handouts, family is told they work in a call-center or other vocation that requires nigh-time hours and an apartment of their own away from home.

There are organizations that offer careers abroad for singing, dancing, and other entertainment industries. Young girls whom have been told all their lives how talented they are are sucked into these schemes and believe that they are preparing for a better life.

I'm going to buy my parents a house & lot. They've done so much for me, this is how I can repay them by working abroad. Even If I suffer, they also suffered for me, it is my duty.

Only to find out after they are already overseas (for those that choose to do this work abroad rather than on their home-turf), that they pretty much have no choice other than to spread their legs or become destitute and alone in a foreign country with nobody to help them survive.

One of the primary points of profit for the mafia here, is real-estate. Have you ever noticed how many people here are squatters? Particularly in the metros? There are millions of squatters here. Many are college graduates: doctors, lawyers, teachers, entrepreneurs and more!

Individuals buy or rent land or homes in squatter areas and invest their life-savings into building a home for themselves and their families. Some squatter communities have been around for over 50 years!

The Mafia here, in addition to their sideline activities likes to encourage the poor to move into certain plots of land that have been purchased by the government or large corporations. They help finance and pull in as many people as possible to settle and build their lives on the land.

When it comes time that the Government or the Corporations decide they want to use the land that they have purchased. They have 2 options: they hire the Mafia to evacuate the residents of the land by force, often times by fire and unsuccessful; or they pay a large settlement to help the residents relocate, for which the Mafia gets a large cut.

Many that are fighting for the legalization of Cannabis, if only for medical purposes, are met with stone walls. Not with actual evidence that it is bad, to be frank, I've done the research, it's not. It's because of political and media campaigns to shun it, think of it as the worst thing around, and to stay far away from it.

Because of that very fact, the majority of the population does not even know why it was actually made illegal in the first place, the medical and economical benefits the plant has or the fact that nobody has ever died due to Marijuana, where as hundreds of thousands have from tobacco, alcohol, stds, political corruption, and organized crime.

Our children are not educated of the horrors of the world and what organizations, horny men & women, are actually after, what happens after-the-fact. I have seen fathers and mothers pimp out their daughters to work for agencies locally and abroad, knowing full well what the work actually entailed but keeping it to themselves, just for the financial benefit.

We speak in hushed whispers until after the fact, as if it's better to keep them completely innocent until they have been so corrupted they are beyond salvation. Only then do we change our whispers to speak down upon them, for the things that we encouraged them to do for our own financial benefit, feeding their ignorance until it is beyond repair and they become the very enemy we originally sheltered them from.

Sex-Education is beyond ridiculous. Condom sales are at an all-time low by comparison of how much sexual activity our young and old people are participating in. Our STD rates are literally 10,000 times higher in an increase than the global population. How does that even happen? Our children are dying, WE ARE DYING!

College professors are taking time out of their curriculum to have sexual intercourse with their students, teach them how to manipulate foreigners, and speaking of my all time favorite:

Foreigners are attracted to exotic beauties, ugly men & women, dark skin, flat noses, undesirable features.

That could not be further from the truth and it comes back again to proper education. Every culture has it's own definition of beauty. In asian countries like ours, white and light skin is seen as attractive. In many western cultures, instead of using whitening soap and injections, girls sun-bathe nude to darken their skin.

Our people should know to read the news, pay attention to those running for political office, their records, what they stand for, etc. Only those that truly stand for the people and those things that benefit the people should be elected into office. It is easier to ride the wave, but in the end you crash upon the rocks.

Our entire culture is built upon a lack of education, elective ignorance, and the preference to blend-in, be part of the masses regardless of whether it is actually what we stand for or not. We want to be accepted, even if that means we are ignorant and acting in stupidity. We just want to belong, not to be judged, 1 in the many, not 1 to rise above the many.