Archive for February, 2009

Marijuana: the Myth

Did you know that more American teens try marijuana for the first time during summer, than at any other time of year,according to a report from the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy?

The report, “Seasonality of Youth’s First-Time Use of Marijuana, Cigarettes or Alcohol,” from the Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) shows a 40 percent increase in first-time youth marijuana use during June and July, compared to the rest of the year. Each day in June and July an average of 6,300 youths try marijuana for the first time. The number of new underage drinkers and cigarette smokers also jumps during the summer months.

With 62 percent of mothers in the U.S. in the work force, the old tradition of stay-at-home moms watching over their vacationing kids has gone the way of black-and-white TV. Haunted by the prevalence of violence, sexual promiscuity and drug abuse among today’s youth, some adults look to organized programs as a safe haven for their children. Others feel guilty that they don’t spend more time at home and try to make up for it by sending their kids to pricey summer programs. It has become a sort of “deal with it”spending.

Part of the problem is that most kids do not get proper education on the subject of drugs. Couple this with the freedom of summer and allure of fun with friends and you get a real recipe for disaster! While you may trust your kids to stay clean, it is difficult to protect them from the pressures of their peers and ensure they will avoid the “experimenting” with drugs.

That is why Friends of Narconon provides “The Truth About Drugs” video program. And right now you have a chance to help us get more kids educated on the subject of Marijuana by sponsoring schools to receive our very popular “Marijuana The Myth” video program before summer begins.

So don’t wait! Sponsor your schools today for only $200.00 per school! Working together we can all make a difference!

A public version of our school videos (which includes additional footage and material) is available on DVD for only $47.

Contact Donna Miller at Friends of Narconon today! 1-800-882-6862

Sincerely,
Robert Hernandez, CCDC*
President, Friends of Narconon, Intl.
*Certified Chemical Dependency Counselor

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Is it just me or has anyone else come to the conclusion that our society places too much attention and emphasis on illness?

We build hospitals and medical facilities all over the place. We have “drug” stores. TV is full of advertisements for this ache or that, this life-threatening illness or that, pills for this, pills for that, new diseases every day. You can’t watch television these days without being bombarded with commercials for drugs for everything imaginable.

In fact there is so much ill-health in our society that our cities, governments, hospitals, and citizens can’t keep up. There isn’t enough money. There aren’t enough doctors. There aren’t enough nurses. There aren’t enough hospitals. It’s like illness itself has become both a way of life, and a disease – and a contagious disease at that spread by fear and hysteria; fear that if you don’t already have the “pre-disposed condition, you will “get it”.

At the same time, illness has become big business. Some people and specific industries are becoming very rich and powerful selling and promoting sickness. Have you thought about how many people are employed in the medical industry/profession? How many companies make their living off of the medical industry (profession)? Let’s see – medical and drug researchers, drug manufacturers, drug distributors, laboratories, medical equipment manufacturers, hospitals, nursing homes, doctors, nurses, social workers, psychiatrists, drugstores, pharmaceutical sales reps, pharmacists….did I leave any out?

Something is terribly wrong with this picture. Family doctors (not all of them) are becoming local drug pushers. I doubt that there is a person alive in the western world that does NOT know of someone who is addicted to prescription medicine, prescribed by their local doctor.

It is time we confronted what is happening around us and put an end this crazy behaviour.  Do we want to live in a world where everyone is on drugs?  We are headed that way.  Certain segments of society are getting rich producing and promoting drugs to the rest of us and most of these drugs don’t cure anything.  Many of the drugs that we are encouraged to take cause more problems than they solve.    Isn’t it time we looked at the real causes of what is ailing us and shouldn’t we work to find real solutions that go to the source of our problems – physical, mental or spiritual?

Here is an analogy to what I see as the endless promotion and frequent use of drugs to solve problems in our society today.  If the lawn in your back yard died every year while the lawn in your front yard was always healthy, what would you do?  What would you do to handle it?  Would you dig up the dead grass and re-sod your back yard every year or, would you look for the source of the problem?  Wouldn’t you try to find out WHAT WAS CAUSING the grass in the back yard to die year after year, and not rest until you did?  And, once you found  WHY the grass was dying wouldn’t you fix it (change the soil, remove grubs, fix drainage, etc)?