Natalia (or Darryl?) wrote:
> Chris, review carefully this time,
If only you would too.
> You may claim to be addiction free, but I would
> warrant you are not able to recognize them. Even milk can be addictive, or
> evil Soya products or body building foods. Any food allergy can be
> indicative of addiction, just as any strong desire for certain types of
> food. Potatoes allergies and Vodka cravings go hand in hand.
So sorry to disappoint you that I don't have any of these "addictions"/
allergies.
> Let's be clear on another important point. I have never ever condoned or
> promoted the use of pot, coffee, or any other substance to anyone in either
> a professional capacity, as a volunteer, or in my personal life.
Now this sounds much better.
> The
> clientele with whom I worked were all very troubled people, who had without
> exception suffered extreme mental, physical and sexual abuse. Almost all
> suffered not so coincidentally from schizophrenia, some from bi-polar
> disorders and so on. This was not a centre for addiction but a healing art
> facility, and no therapy was conducted other than by the individual in their
> personal processes that developed from doing the art.
That kind of (non-)"treatment" is a tragic waste of precious time. These
patients need thorough changes of diet and active supplementation with
nutrients they're deficient in.
> This centre continues to give meaning to
> people's lives without any lectures from anyone on addiction or any other
> problems.
Do you want to entertain them in the short run or do you want to heal them ?
What you call "healing art" is at best tinkering with symptoms.
> Below you are continuing to say that I think drugs should be legalized. This
> is reading what you want to use from your soap box, and not concentrating
> too well either, I must add. I feel that marijuana and hashish should be
> legalized, as should hemp production. I never said that anything else should
> be legalized, though I think there are probably exceptions.
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If you can concentrate a bit, maybe you can finally make up your mind on
which drugs you want to legalize and which not. But it's not all that
important where you draw the line. Whether you legalize all drugs or
"only" marijuana and hashish and "exceptions", you'll end up with vast
increases in consumption and addiction that would soon get out of control,
and do irreversible and vast damage to public health. So that strawman
is just that too.
> I understand how you feel that one life screwed up by adverse reactions to
> THC is too many, but your passion might be better focused on creative ways
> to help kids get back into the stream of life. You don't seem to be crying
> for the zillions put on Prozac or Ritalin. Alcohol and tobacco kill
> millions, yet there are comparatively few deaths that are directly related
> to hard drugs, and almost none directly related to THC. Of course you are
> free to choose what you feel is the greater "evil", but don't you think that
> given the limited resources and abilities that law enforcement possesses,
> their time would be far better spent getting the serious pushers? And
> include in that category physicians and pharmaceutical industries, McDeath,
> Nike and the like!
As I said many times in this thread, my approach is to resolve the problem
of addictions at the root. This would make Prozac and Ritalin unnecessary
and put the "serious pushers" out of business, much more thoroughly than
your approach or that of any other drug-legalization proponent on this list.
All you have offered is tinkering with symptoms and even wasting time with
non-treatments you misnomed "healing".
> By the way, no drug offered by pharmaceuticals addresses cause either. It's
> always about managing symptoms.
Congrats for proving that you didn't grasp my comments. You should smoke
less pot and try to improve your health.
Chris
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