There is so much MYTH and MISUNDERSTANDING surrounding Alcohol and Drug misuse that it's no wonder that the vast majority of the general public is confused. What you are about to read will not only clear up some of that myth and misunderstanding, it may even make you feel angry. Most of the general population has been lied to, cheated, deliberately misled, and even ripped off without even knowing it. The average cost to each individual in the U.S. per my last estimate in todays dollars is around $3,000.00. That's right, it came out of your pocket and you did not even see it go. Now how does something like that happen without your knowledge. You already know how you get ripped off paying taxes to a "monster sized government". Prohibition is the other slick trick and you have been told it is to protect you as a citizen. That has always been a money making lie.
Let's try the fact that marijuana is ADDICTIVE! Marijuana has been used since be beginnings of recorded history 5,000 years ago. Extensive scientific studies and research, that are NOT paid for Pseudoscience, clearly shows that marijuana has very significant medicinal value and is not in any way addictive. A genetic predisposition to addiction to marijuana does not exist. I have yet to find any documentation of anyone dieing from an overdose of purely marijuana use. Add some other chemical that can in excess be a poison like alcohol and then it is not hard to make up an outright lie of omission by pointing at the marijuana and ignoring the true cause of death, an overdose of alcohol or some other toxic chemical.
Since marijuana can remain in the fat cells in your body for a lengthy period of up to a month and still be drug screen detected, while most other drugs have long since been metabolized out of your system, due to very ill concieved laws established to make money and NOT protect the general public, you could go to jail or prison, spend thousands of dollars, and as noted above, get ripped off.
Alcohol and nicotine are resposible for huge amounts of illness and death but, they are legal. Unless you are very young, and factually under the age of 25 when the majority of human brain growth has been completed, smoking marijuana is the small quantities commonly used will not harm you. Substitute marijuana use for alcohol use and we cut the carnage on the highways by up to 80%. Social problems, due to alcohol overuse, take a nosedive.
Richard Nixon, while in the office of the President, had a hand picked group of professionals tell him that there was absolutely no way that THC should be a schedule one drug like heroin or cocaine. Nixon insisted that THC be included. Why? He knew it would be a huge moneymaker in the criminal justice system because alcohol prohibition had proven that. It would also be a big moneymaker for the drug cartels, where prohibition has always been a moneymaker, surprisingly for both sides of the fence.
True addiction is genetic/epigenetic in nature and is not due to any "gateway drug" like THC. It is a neurobiopsychosocial illness that is treatable when sound science is applied. In the vast majority of treatment provided in the past and present, the sound science is not used. A psychosocial form of a 12-Step program is used and it becomes a slick "money-go-round" that sucks up state and federal taxes, insurance money, and the addicts money, over and over and over. If the "broken brain problem" is not treated, the disease of addiction remains active.
How do I have such insight into all of this corruption surrounding addiction and the wasted money and lives due to the "War on Drugs"? I have worked in the field of addictions science for 30 years and stuck my nose into the books, research, and the existing corruption.
If the publisher of this article has guts enough to publishe it, I will be back with updates on as regular a basis as I am able. I hope that you take this factual information and share it with everyone you can.....spread the word, because the end of all this corruption is very near.