| Traditionally, dealing with health issues has been | | | | the act and corner some of the market. Rather than |
| intensely private and personal and is something that | | | | allowing individuals and families take care of their own |
| the individual, his family and personal physician deal with | | | | needs and restricting their activities to what is duly |
| very discretely according to their own personal needs | | | | authorized by law, the U.S. Federal government is now |
| and circumstances. We get treatment when we feel it | | | | applying to be your drug pusher and possibly 'require' |
| is appropriate and necessary. | | | | you or your children to become happy customers! Of |
| It is now widely accepted that alcoholism is a 'disease'. | | | | course, you won't be able to refuse, will you? |
| We don't throw alcoholics into prison and ruin their lives, | | | | Absurd? Of course it is. But it's also reality and it is |
| we treat them. Of course they have paid their tax on | | | | embodied in the President's New Freedom |
| the gin that gave them the disease, so it's legal. | | | | Commission which will mandate that your children |
| By the same token, drug abuse is a medical and/or | | | | undergo mental health screening at an early age. Ahhh |
| behavior problem which directly affects the user | | | | ....'Freedom' eh? |
| regardless of the legality of the drug, or lack thereof. | | | | If, in the opinion of government approved psychiatrists, |
| The fact that certain drugs are criminalized and forced | | | | your child is found 'needy' your child will be put on |
| into the black market now breeds the social ills we are | | | | drugs 'to help' and you will have nothing to say about it. |
| all to aware of when a high level of profitability enters | | | | Of course you could try and resist but then..... |
| the picture and seduces youth into it's commerce | | | | To aid in transforming the mental health system, the |
| where the happy, powerful and successful people in | | | | Commission makes four recommendations: |
| their community are the illicit drug dealers. Laws making | | | | 4.1 Promote the mental health of young children. |
| certain drugs illegal do not restrict the demand as any | | | | 4.2 Improve and expand school mental health |
| college student will tell you. They can get whatever | | | | programs. |
| they want. It only increases the risk of the delivery | | | | 4.3 Screen for co-occurring mental and substance use |
| system and increases the price and profitability for the | | | | disorders and link with integrated treatment strategies. |
| item of choice. However, get caught with | | | | 4.4 Screen for mental disorders in primary health care, |
| 'non-approved' substances whose purchase did not | | | | across the lifespan, and connect to treatment and |
| involve paying a 'tax' and you'll go to prison. | | | | supports. |
| Few are aware of the history of the U.S. Federal | | | | Notice in 4.1 how they want to start at an early age |
| prohibition on marijuana which goes back to 1937. Little | | | | and in 4.4 they want to continue 'helping' you |
| was known about it then and the general perception | | | | throughout your 'lifespan'. |
| was that it was a hallucinogenic drug. At a criminal | | | | Now in the end, they would probably send you the bill |
| court trial back in the day, one so called 'expert' was | | | | in the rare event that it's not a 'cash only' transaction |
| asked in front of a jury about t h e substance's | | | | and you'll likely pay up front for this 'help' . Of course, |
| insanity-inducing properties. In his testimony he admitted | | | | you Americans could also pay 'more than your fair |
| to using the drug himself.. When asked what happened | | | | share' to contribute to these and other 'freedom' |
| during his use of it, he answered: "After two puffs on | | | | programs. Gives you the warm "fuzzies" doesn't it to |
| a marijuana cigarette, I was tuned into a bat." As a bat | | | | think that they are working so hard for your benefit? |
| he flew around the room for 15 minutes he said. This | | | | Now, in an age when FBI personnel themselves have |
| was all the jury needed to hear. After this precedent, | | | | reported that their government training includes labeling |
| accused murderers in trial now testified that "after two | | | | anyone with Christian or Constitutional beliefs as |
| puffs on a marijuana cigarette my incisor teeth grew | | | | 'terrorists', you can only imagine how these child |
| six inches long and dripped with blood." All marijuana | | | | psychiatrists will operate. I don't think we need to spell it |
| insanity defenses were henceforth successful in | | | | out. |
| criminal courts around the land. | | | | I wonder what types of prescriptions the y hand out |
| Thus, with no medical knowledge available for or | | | | for unruly children of politically incorrect families? That |
| against its effects, a prohibitive tax was placed on the | | | | is a treatable disease, isn't it? And of course, since the |
| substance which nobody would pay, and thus it | | | | NSA is now spying on its own U.S. citizens with |
| became criminalized when its use went without paying | | | | impunity and collecting all your internet activity, well.... |
| the exorbitant tax. (1) | | | | you get the picture. |
| So it would seem politics motivated the issue more | | | | Orwell may have been more of a clairvoyant than a |
| than health or science and it has been prohibited since. | | | | fiction writer, do you think? |
| Of course, those who can benefit from it's use for | | | | 'Just Say No'! -Nancy Reagan |
| medical purposes, and those doctors whose states | | | | As I see it, there are only two ways to deal with this |
| have made medical marijuana legal face aggressive | | | | situation: |
| federal charges should they want to seek relief from | | | | #1... Pray to God to see you through this life and get to |
| their own personal ailments. | | | | the next one as you take your chances and walk in |
| Now flip the coin. Realizing the profits of the drug | | | | faith. |
| business, the U.S. government now wants to get in on | | | | |