The Knox County Sheriff’s Office is investigating the drug-related death of a Knoxville blogger’s 18-year-old son, who died Monday. In an online blog entry, Katie Allison Granju confirmed the death of her son, Henry Louis Granju, who had been in intensive care at the University of Tennessee Medical Center following an assault and subsequent drug overdose he suffered in April. … According to the Sheriff’s Office, as well as a family member’s account, Henry Granju was beaten and robbed by three assailants during an attempted drug buy in the parking lot of the Bi-Lo market, 2230 W. Governor John Sevier Highway, on April 26. Family members say a tire iron was used in the assault.
Katie is a great person and I feel so sorry for her and her entire family. The scourge of drugs… it’s insidious and evil. Drugs only destroy lives and families. May their manufacturers and pushers and providers experience the torments of a well deserved much needed eternity in hell.
Our society is so tolerant of sin, that sin has taken over nearly every corner and crevice. Sure, drink. But since getting drunk is ok, why isn’t smoking pot? And if smoking pot is ok, why not meth? And if meth is alright (and by the number of people using it you’d think it was) then why note cocaine or heroin?
We’ve seen the slippery slope which tolerates alcoholism and drug abuse- and now we’re plunging headlong down it to our own doom and destruction.
Here in California we now have medical marijuana. I expect in another two or three years there will be a big push to force all the health insurance companies to cover medical marijuana prescription costs.
i expect medical meth labs to start cropping up there too- and medical oxycontin.