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THE ROOTS OF DUE PROCESS Drug Use Education (DUE) is not a course; it is not a curriculum; it's not a program... DUE is a process that begins when communities across a nation are able to distinguish the difference between drug use and abuse, realizing that in a technologically advanced society in the midst of the Electro-Chemical Age, using drugs is as normal as operating a computer, and abusing drugs is as abnormal as accessing a server through the network to make unauthorized changes that result in malfunctions. We wouldn't target computers as the problem, then why should we target drugs. The focus should be on reducing drug abuse and that will not diminish within a battle zone. Thus, communities must enlist their public servants to end the war on drugs (WOD), halting the violence, fear, and ignorance in favor of a solution that controls the problem; not the people. The core foundation of DUE requires an attitude transformation about drugs that strips away fear and ignorance spawned by the WOD and promotes safety and knowlege with the understanding that the appropriate drugs taken correctly with regard to dosage and time can be a powerful healing remedy, while excessive doses of the same drug can produce harmful and even fatal results. In addressing proper drug administration, DUE demands a study of neurology and how psychoactive substances work, conveying the variations of human genetic types, physiology, and how one drug can produce different reactions among various users. Although DUE should not be limited to the subject of recreational drugs and mandate that every student graduates with at least an LVN degree while offering those who wish, the benefits of obtaining an RN degree, the intent of DUE is to prepare students as young as 5 years old with a realization that every substance they consume will effect them in some way; discipline is the only approach that guarantees committment from being absorbed by mental urges which result in relapse. DUE explores the possibility that recreational drugs may have medical benefits which draw users to repeat the practice more than addictive behavior.
HOW WOD HAS HAMPERED U.S. RESEARCH EFFORTS The U.S. approach to research of psychoactive substances has been far more perplexing than the recidivism rates of those incarcerated for drug possession and trafficking. Pre-WWII research almost always involved patients committed for life to a sanitarium. These helpless victims, locked away by family and government to protect the safety of community members, were used to test new drugs and surgical procedures that typically resulted in behavioral modification, rendering the victims helpless or useless and often in discomfort such that their lives were often terminated. During WWII both the Japanese and German Nazis government bodies authorized some of the most inhumane and gruesome experiments on American and European POWs that sparked the emergence of international regulations at the Geneva convetions which enforced strict limitations on scientific experimentation of humans that has been adopted in the U.S. to include guidelines in the use and treatment of laboratory animals as well. Following WWII, U.S. veterans were often treated with psychoactive substances, including hallucinagenics that lasted well into the 1970s. Unauthorized studies ended during the early years of the WOD after which a moratorium was placed on research of controlled substances as it pertained to the benefits derived from non-medical use of a specific substance. This was a positive step for many veterans who were administered often excessive quantities of mind-altering substances which curtailed their ability to function normally. However, the cap on controlled substance experimenation has been detrimental to important research. Because so much about psychoactive substances remains unknown, the lack of pharmacological research that presents honest information has been left to other nations, many of which are enemies to the U.S. During the past decade, there has been an overwhelming amount of international scientific data regarding substances that are labled "controlled" in the U.S. and their benefits in the treatment of disorders. The U.S. has forbidden such research, allowing a serious regression that has impacted scientific research because the WOD does not permit any study which might favor restoration of a drug that has been considered "off limits" to the U.S. public. Thus, U.S. drug policy does not recognize any health benefits that might exist for Schedule I drugs, curbing research on medical marijuana, for example. Throughout the past three decades, other nations have pursued such investigations while the U.S. has blocked such research by withholding grants to those U.S.-based organizations which published research papers that contradicted the U.S. political position. Today, the U.S. Government is beginning to realize that by hindering pro-positive drug research, it has failed to uncover information that would have enabled the U.S. to be a competitve player with other nations that have advanced beyond ours. Because DUE demands a pro-positive approach to drugs, it is impossible for DUE and the WOD to co-exist. There can be only one directive from the federal government. If the U.S. wants to proliferate the drug abuse problem and harness scare tactics that will keep drug use underground, no action needs to be taken because the WOD produces drug abusers every day. However, if the goal of the U.S. Government is to dramatically reduce the occurance of drug abuse in our society, then serious action must be taken to overhaul current drug policy.
THE WOD IS A BARRIER TO HUMAN HEALTH & DUE The time has come to identify the pitfalls associated with the extreme measures taken by government to allow and curtail drug use and research. While we cannot expect to return to the days before there were controlled substances, the U.S. government must recognize the rights to human freedom which include the right of the individual to make educated decisions about the drugs they consume without unecessary restrictions imposed by government law and most definately without criminal punishment for a human behavior that is normal. The WOD has prooven to be seriously defective since debilitating drugs are still administered to patients in VA hospitals, private practices, hospitals, and clinics that impact the CNS, producing the unwanted effects much the same way as the psychoactive substances that were administered to WWII veterans after the war. DUE is a vehicle that allows an individual to participate in decisions about the consumption of medications and substances that are today in the hands of the U.S. Government that admitted as recently as January 2006 that "too little is known about drug abuse, especially the causes and ways to treat and prevent drug abuse." While the administration of drugs is speculated not to be a human rigtht but rather a privlege that comes from the appropriate education, it is the right of every human to be extended a rudimentary form of such education outside the scope of medical school which will allow individuals to have the privledge to prescribe their own medications with or without the necessity of a healthcare provider. Today, online pharmaceutical vendors assume that the patients they treat are honest about their health. Actually, it should have nothing to do with their business to understand why someone orders medication. With DUE, all they would need to do is verify the credentials that an individual has and caution patients who may be taking drugs that interact with medication they are currently taking as indicated in the patient's healthcare record, a record that each patient in good standing has the privlege to dispute. A continuation of the drug war is job assurance for everyone staffing America's second pharmaceutical system, the drug dealers. Today, there are a vast number of drug dealers solicit drugs to only a few individuals. It is impossible for many of these newbies to be aware of drug interactions and quality level of the street drugs they peddle. It is equally impossible for the U.S. Government to produce meaningful statistics about drug users when a majority of drug users are out their practicing the advice from Nancy Reagan to "Just Say 'NO'".
ATTITUDE TRANSFORMATION: HOW LONG WILL THS TAKE A societal attitude transformation about drugs in which many will argue could take not only years or decades, but generations before there is public acceptance of concepts that are misunderstood and morally violating such as recreational drug use. Considering that in every culture one of the first -- if not the first -- uses of chemical substances was as a psychoactive depressant / stimulant I find it hard to believe that an attitude transformation is far beyond the grasp of the current generations. The basis for this is the proliferation of more than 1,500 drug reform organizations throughout the U.S. and abroad. While a number of these organziations are small individual or community movements, there are at least 35 in the U.S. alone that are driven by large donations from philanthropists who now support the grand-daddy of these organizations, the Drug Policy Alliance (DPA). With a membership that has drawn over 50,000 supporters worldwide, the DPA is leagues ahead of the Partnership for a Drug-Free America whose membership has recently dwindled to about 10,000. Proponant organizations which started to disappear during the 1990s have lost momentum. Many have become temporary havens for the survivors (family & friends) of the WOD victims who died because of a fatal overdose (FOD). Once these survivors realize that the drug policy and not the drugs have caused the death of their loved one, they disengage from proponent organizations. Recent disinterest in proponent organizations has been attributed to the lack of support they have provided to make hydrocarbons, such as gasoline, a controlled substance. As these organizations continue to diminish, the surge in reformist organizations is an indicator that attitude transformation is rapidly occurring without government intervention. If the U.S. Government becomes overwhelmed by a majority of Americans who demand public policy changes, it won't be long before a political leader wielding educational solutions to end drug abuse makes a prominent mark to end the WOD, starting what may become the most inclusive era in American politics and it would be about time.
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IRONIES OF SUPERSTARDOM IN THE ELECTRO-CHEMICAL AGE Just because we say a drug -- like alcohol -- is normally used for recreational purposes, doesn't change it's medicinal value. During the early decades of the 20th century, the public forgot about the alcohol's value as a medicine. During Prohibition, physicians were getting alcohol from the Al Capones in society, just like everyone else. Thus, it's no surprise that today medical marijuana is cultivated by dedicated, caring people who might just find themselves incarcerated one day or perhaps shot it in the back by the member of a violent SWAT team, programmed to murder. We are a very different culture than what existed during the 1920s. Not even one hundred years later, our society is far more sophisticated and educated. In 1908, the vast majority of Americans had barely graduated from the 8th grade. High School was an option often avoided due to the socio-economic needs of the family at that time, which mandated early employment. In 2008, the vast majority of the American public is expected to have some college or trade school background, making high school essential. And even though the subject matter learned in schools is much different from the material of prior generations, the same format is used today as it was in the earliest days of the single room school house. While businesses harness the power of online computing in training new employees, the typical grade school in the U.S. only dabbles in such training. The personal computer has been a part of society for a quarter century, yet in the public school system here in the U.S. students share computers from grade school through high school. Rather than invest our money in the future of America's youth, our government would rather squander it on technological warfare and maintaining an arsenal that can completely annhilate the Earth. Throughout the latter half of the 20th century, Americans were confiden that our superior defense technology provided us with instant insurance that America is protected from hostile nations and terrorist takeover. On September 11, 2001, that seriously flawed delusion came to an end as the safety of every American citizen whose confidence was compromised by four U.S. jet liners overtaken by terrorists with what appears to be permission from the U.S. Government, placing the source of terrorism in the White House Oval Office. This has become increasingly evident almost a decade after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, as our extensive imaging technology developed specifically to locate war criminals and terrorists has been completely unsuccessful in determining the whereabouts of the alleged 9/11 mastermind, Osama bin Laden, yet it has unprecedented power in locating the members of drug cartels who are often found in the most unlikely places. The importance of 9/11-style terrorism will be realized in the future when it will be revealed that in the Nixonian Era (1969-Present) staged calamity has been a tool to preoccupy the general public during the Electro-Chemical Age and the advent of neo-reality television. It is no wonder that the most beloved president of the Nixonian Era had a history as a movie actor. Ronald Reagan was actually the only president equipped with the experience to play the role in a world of fabricated events that include the drug war. Today, the members of the American society should acknowledge that the purpose of our vast defense system wasn't intended to bring other nations to fear the U.S. but rather for the citizens of the U.S. to fear their own government. Why would any nation launch an attack on a self-destructive nation? Wouldn't it be more fun and less expensive to watch a slow, tortorous death of the world superpower than to stir criticism from other nations for disrupting world peace? Today, U.S. citizens are witnessing a
vaporization of technological capability thats been saturated by the fear
and ignorance spawned by what might very well become the two deadliest
wars in the history of humanity, the war on drugs (WOD) and the war on
terror (WOT), both designed to defeat an illogical non-existent and
abstract enemy theoretically. Realistically, however, these wars
have been invented to maintain control of the general public. If the
citizens of the U.S. could only remove themselves from the oppressive and
ill-fated laws that they see as protective and recognize how these laws
work to destroy the American family, U.S. citizens would most certainly
want to take action against it's wayward government. There's just
one problem: The U.S. government -- with all its checks and balances
-- is a closed system that maintains control over even international
government organizations, such as the United Nations. While
the UN guides other nations towards a global from of government, the U.S.
has been the restrictive force that dictates policy to the UN.
Clearly, this has not always worked. For example, at
the 48th session of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND)
that began on Monday, March 7, 2005 in
A VISION OF THE WORLD OVER DUE There is nothing about the WOD that pertains to saving lives. Think about it. What war was ever started with the objective of fatality reduction? If the goal of a mission emphasizes any regard for human life, war would be the last solution applied to attain that goal. Much to the contrary, the objective of the drug war is the induction of death to those who use drugs so that an example is set for the rest of society. Hence, the goal of the WOD is not to SAVE our society, but rather to CONTROL it, leaving dissenters incarcerated, marked for disaster with medical records that depict them as a national threat, or to simply allow them to die in the streets and gutters from the "poison" they consume. The Dark Ages of American democracy began in 1969 with the first president in U.S. history recognized and then pardoned as a criminal. The U.S. Consitution says nothing about pardoning presidents who have committed a breach of power. Brainwashed historians today beleive that the presidential pardon of Richard Nixon was good for our nation. I beg to differ with these historians whose complacent lives are obviously far removed from the reality of nearly 40 years of EXCLUSIVE government thinking. In a world less superficial than ours, not only would Richard Nixon have been imprisoned, he would have been executed and the Republican Party would have been disbanded. Those are the types of tactics that are used in war and for evidence of this, we need not look any farther than Iran. The U.S. is no longer a two-party system of government. It hasn't been since September 1974 when Gerald R. Ford took action to pardon a president who admitted criminal activity, triggering over a 100 incidents of gun violence in our nations schools that has yet to end, a 20-year surge in violent crimes (1974-1994), and a perverse fear of substances that heal when used appropriately... not to even mention a world of people dying from a virus with a 10-year incubation period that emerged in 1981, ironically on the anniversary of Nixon's declaration of the WOD. We have no control over the past. We have control only over the future. If Americans could only collectively unite their communities to present demands for pro-positive drug policy that abandons the deadliest war in human history with over a million casualties worldwide, we can finally dispell the fantasy of drug war achievements and migrate to a world weaned on the most optimal healthcare without the fear and ignorance of drugs. Neuropharmacological research can maintain a focus in understanding documented phenomena about the role of psychoactive substances in the miraculous recovery of terminally ill patients that has been long supressed by the U.S. Government fearing that such revalation might cause drug users to come out from under government control, cultivating a better quality of life for the general public that would reduce harm and bring an end to drug abuse. The research of recreational drugs could very well produce safe substances essential to the existence of humanity in future space colonies which would be initally too small in structure, thus, limiting the choices of personal entertainment. In itself, DUE will inevitably bolster human confidence in a world that soon might be filled with mass-produced anthropomorphic robots that will present challenging competition for the youngest generation of humans alive today.. If applied, DUE will have a powerfully positive impact on human life, driving the desire to live longer, perform better, and maintain better health, thereby ensuring human evolution. Even today when polticians are more receptive to the advice of experts that have repeatedly stated drugs are a natural part of our culture, SWAT raids and law enforcement murder innocent people just to show the general public what the U.S. Government can do. American leaders have better things to do than to hunt "witches" when they simply don't exist. h. The contention of the U.S. Government is that because psychoactive substances have the potential to distort human mental processes, it is very likely that allowing drugs to be used by the general public presents a threat to society when one or more drug users MAY suddenly be tuned to altered states which peel back layers of Capitalist indoctrination, revealing the reality of corruption and crime within government organizations. Just the notion that drug use could lead to a massive revolution, in which the government is forcably overthrown is ridiculous. No one needs drugs to make that happen; it's happening everyday. Humanity is evolving. No matter what happens to the visible percentage of the population that confront a calamity, there will be no inspiration through punishment and death. Eventually, everyone will be drawn to one or many psychoactive substances. When they are, will they know how to use them?
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