Well Jack it may be satire to urbane well educated folks like you, but to most people it simply reinforces stupidity and stereotyping.

Like all addicts would stab you in the head for 50p...or all addicts piss in the bath, or all addicts live ankle deep in vomit, eat their own scabs and inject themselves eight times a day, with a needle they found stuck up a dead rat.

In the UK we used to have a TV series, which attempted to satirise racism by portraying the main character...Alf Garnet as a bigotted racist, with ultra conservative ideas....it was supposed to make the character look pathetic, but in fact it turned Alf into an anti hero.
In the end Alf became so popular that Johnny Speight the writer was quoted as saying that he wished he had never invented him.

The writer in Genie's publication was attempting to satirise political correctness and the "liberal" newspeak that Little Hawk referred to, but to most people the article was simply a chance to denigrate those who are addicted to hard drugs......most are in fact psychiatric cases.

It's what is called being "too clever by half"...put that in your notebook Mr McGrath!

I've seen too much of the misery addicts endure, to find anything about the condition remotely funny.
The same stereotyping is used to imply stupidity to a whole grass roots movement who have worked out that there is something rotten at the heart of "big government".
All the facts are available to back up their stance, this government and its predecessor has just robbed you and your children and grandchildren of billions of dollars, the right to a living, and any chance of decent public services.

Who are the really stupid ones?