RECLAIMED MINDS

If you lost it you can get it back!  Apparently and according to this article in Join Together, if a person has lost some brain power from methamphetamine use, with a little time (and obviously abstinent time) they can get some thinking back.

The mind is the most valuable asset an individual has and to lose it, is the loss of happiness and opportunity.

The fact that there can be mental recovery in a methamphetamine user is great news and is all the more reason why anyone using methamphetamine should seek a drug rehab immediately.

There is a whole life to be lived.

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“Researchers at the University of California at Davis reported that certain cognitive deficits resulting from methamphetamine use can be recovered, although recovery takes at least a year.

The researchers measured research subjects on their ability to direct their attention to specific tasks while ignoring distractions. They discovered that those who were recently abstinent (three weeks to six months) performed significantly worse on the cognitive test than those who had been abstinent one year or longer.”

http://www.jointogether.org/news/research/summaries/2009/study-cognitive-functions.html

Pot on the Prescription Pad

It’s easy –Call your Congressman and demand that marijuana get legalized so insurance will pay for it next time you want to get stoned.

Anyone who has worked in drug treatment for any length of time knows that marijuana is a gateway drug.  Legalizing is not going to change that fact.  Perhaps it will be a gateway drug for Oxycontin, rather than heroin, or perhaps Xanax rather than cocaine.

Legalizing marijuana is simply opening the door for prescription drug abuse, rather than street drug abuse as marijuana does now.

Either way – marijuana is marijuana and often time it eventually leads a person down a path which ends in jail or drug rehab if they are lucky.

Here is the story from Join Together.

“The financial services subcommittee of the U.S. House appropriations committee has removed a ban on the District of Columbia using federal or local funds to legalize marijuana or to reduce penalties for its possession or distribution, the Washington Examiner reported June 28.

Rep. Jose Serrano (D-N.Y.), the subcommittee chairman, said the budget bill “allows the District to conduct and implement a referendum on use of marijuana for medical purposes as has been done in various states.”…….”

http://www.jointogether.org/news/headlines/inthenews/2009/house-budget-draft-would.html

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HEIGHT ASHBURY REVISITED

This “abandon the war and let’s all smoke pot” feels a little bit like Height Asbury in the 1960s.

It is pretty clear where this country has gone from those days.  We still don’t seem to be able to win any wars and we have more potheads.

And since the Mexican Cartels also have a bustling cocaine and heroin business, are we going to legalize those?

Let’s knock of the knee jerk bit and piece solutions and come up with a comprehensive plan that will save this country in its darkest hours.

During the decline of Rome, the citizenship had a great deal of alcoholism.  Rather than face the fact that their country was on the way out and only heroic measures could save it, they chose to hide behind inebriation.

We are doing the same, except a lot of people are profiting from it.

ONLY effective drug education and drug treatment will resolve the situation

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“Ongoing drug violence in Mexico and state budget deficits are driving optimism among supporters of marijuana legalization, the Associated Press reported June 16.

Legalization supporters argue that legalization will cut Mexican drug cartels out of the business and provide a new vehicle for generating state tax revenues.”

http://www.jointogether.org/news/headlines/inthenews/2009/marijuana-legalization-drive.html

A REAL WAR ON DRUGS

The war on drugs has finally become a real war on drugs.  The Mexican military is doing what they consider it takes to take down the Cartel.

Granted these are not nice things they are doing to the Cartel, but what else are they to do?  Ask them politely to leave town?

It is time someone said NO with enough ferocity to show they mean it.  It is unfortunate that it has to go this way, but it is probably what it takes, if we are to make any kind of dent on the war on drugs.

“The Mexican military and security forces may be emulating some of the worst tactics of its foes in the war against illegal narcotics trafficking, including torturing and kidnapping suspects, the Washington Post reported July 9.

Human-rights groups, Mexican residents and politicians, and others detailed a long list of alleged abuses by government forces in regions affected by the drug trade, from the border area to remote districts where marijuana and poppies are cultivated. Mexican officials said that abuses have taken place but described the incidents as isolated. They also alleged that some stories of torture were fabricated by drug cartels for propaganda purposes.”…..

http://www.jointogether.org/news/headlines/inthenews/2009/drug-war-torture-by-mexican.html

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