Pop the Molly, You'll Die...Maybe.

Trinidad James: I stopped fu***** with Mary today and it sucks

(f***) but there's a new girl in the neighborhood, you can call her Molly

Trinidad James: Pop the Molly I'm sweatin', woo!

Rick Ross: Put Molly all in her champagne, she ain’t even know it

I took her home and I enjoyed that, she ain't even know it

Kanye West: Something about Mary, she gone off that Molly

Tyga: And I can't seem to findMolly, Molly, Molly, Molly, Molly, Molly, Molly, Molly

Molly, Molly, Molly, Molly, Molly, Molly, Molly, Molly

These are just a few of the lyrics that have created and glorified Molly, a seemingly harmless and trendy drug that is all the rage among the hip-hop front runners, adults, and kids alike. It's mere presence in pop culture has left a very bad taste in the mouths of many, literally.

I came across this today as I was watching the morning news. I had just came back from my morning run and decided to turn on the tube. The first thing I see and hear is about Molly. Now I am not oblivious, I have heard the name before but I honestly felt that it was just a passing trend of some new alcohol or some stripper turned celebrity. As the newscast pointed out people, especially children, die from this drug. I listen to rap, but not the kind of rap that objectifies women, glorifies drugs and alcohol, or impresses upon someone to be angry and fight just for the sake of doing it. 

There were 3 or more children (between 16-20) that died this weekend from this drug. Add that number to a staggering 5-10 individuals per month since the inception of Molly. Those numbers are just the ones that are reported to news agencies. There was an 18 year old girl who was in rehab, as the story pointed out this morning, to kick an addiction from Molly. 18 years old? You should still be popping Flintstone vitamins, not Molly. This goes to show you that it's important to know what is going on in kids' lives and not only that, parents need to constantly and OPENLY talk to them about outside influences, health factors from smoking, alcohol, and other recreational drugs, and making informed decisions as young adults.

This ever present Molly is actually MDMA, the purest form and successor to the drug Ecstasy. There are no fillers, which is why it's so easy to overdose from it. Many college students and even high school students sell and use the drugs and it is really popular at parties, private gatherings, concerts, and music festivals dedicated exclusively to the bite sized capsule. Put it this way, if there was Molly at the original Wood Stock, I'm more than sure that many of us would not be here today. I shuddered to think that this stuff is being sold at school campuses and my own niece who is high school came to mind. Had she been asked about it? Had she been told false information about how wonderful it is? Had she taken it? These days, there is very little peer pressure for drugs, sex, and alcohol because, thanks to rap and pop culture, it's what is cool and we all know it's about being cool or at least perceived as being cool in high school! Because Molly is embraced by many popular artists, the only pressure is felt by those who are trying to stop a seemingly addictive trend of epic proportions and cut down on its popularity. To make things worse, the pill isn't just a pill anymore. Sellers have gotten innovative and have started putting the powder in candy and even crystal form.

I don't know about you, but you might want to make sure that the Jolly Rancher you are eating, is in fact JOLLY and not MOLLY. It's so crazy to me that something like this is being promoted and glorified as it is. A couple of days ago, I was at a gas station one day getting some snacks and heard two young men with a little boy of about 7 or 8 talking about getting Molly. I was surprised to hear them talking about this in such detail, but I was just flabbergasted at the fact they were discussing this with such a young child with them. They planned to go and get some Molly after they left the store. They cracked a joke about selling "the little boy in case they didn't have enough dough." Really?

Needless to say I did turn around and gave them the worst glare that I could muster up in the little time I had in the checkout line (I didn't care if I got shot) and I had to say a little prayer when I got in the car because I was madder than a mosquito in a mannequin factory. 

When will this end? The constant uprising of new, dangerous, and "hip" drugs? I suppose the correct question to ask is why are we allowing this to even begin? We have a responsibility to those that we care for to ensure that they are not put in harms way and don't fall victim to wolves in sheep's clothing. Everything that does glitter isn't gold; I know: cliche, cliche, cliche. However, everything that is gold doesn't glitter either. What we must enforce and reinforce is that everything good to you isn't good for you. We must create value in the things that are positive, fruitful, and admirable and expose those that we care for, specifically the youth, to those things in order for them to stray away from those things that are malevolent, damaging, and deadly.

All in all, we need to crack down on who and what influences children. My mommy always said that the worst thing you can do is be an enabler to your children. They equate that to you being their friend. You need to be the parent and you need to right the wrongs in your children's lives whether they like it or not. You never stop being a parent, so that means you don't stop listening, disciplining, inspiring, and setting examples. You're children don't need to be like you, they need to be better than you. In life, you only get one shot if you aren't a parent. If you are then you get as many shots for as many children you bring into the world. They are to become better versions of you, so raise them to be so. They are your second chance to right what went wrong in your youth.

Rappers who promote Molly and make it sound so amazingly wonderful that you just can't help yourself from trying to find Molly and allow "her" to further tempt you into being a part of a moment of nostalgia and pleasure, should be shunned for this. This is a craze that once found, leaves you feeling lost. Molly is definitely not the "girl next door" that you may think. She is a clever and tawdry little pawn in the game of quick money and long term suffering. I don't remember ever being influenced by anything or anyone negative in my life or I just may not recall because the positive forces in my life kept my focus where it needed to be--in my books and in church. These days, everything is connected--to the internet. Therefore, you know longer need encyclopedias and thesauruses because everything can be found, bought, sold, and saved online. This is great until it starts becoming abused or misused. What can we do about this? Get your arses off of Facebook and put your child's face in a book. Cutting off ties with the connected world and instilling the values and bonds that are necessary to avoid Molly are within you and your family; it's in the household. 

The battle is never over because just like this started, it shall end and before you know it Molly will be "Audi 5000" and the self-proclaimed Sarah may take her place. Nonetheless, it's time for a real life Hunger Games to ensue and we need to be gunning for Molly's head.

I wanted to end this post with a bang, so here it is... BANG.