POPPY SEED DEBATE





According to the article referenced here and featured in Join Together, there is a shortage of morphine in the world and the proposed solution is to legalize the Afghan poppy supply.



Apparently, according to Gordon Smith, Canada’s former NATO ambassador, the poppy eradication program is Afghanistan is “alienating farmer and forcing them into the arms of the Taliban or drug traffickers.”



While not posed as a perfect solution it presents the possibility of more control over the opium market that is going to exist, whether we like it or not.



Controlling the opium market through determination of who the end user is going to be of the opium is an interesting solution. Perhaps, this coupled with a full scale drug prevention program in the United States (cutting down the heroin customer base) could help eliminate the large market place for heroin that the US is now.



It is known that these fields have long financed the Taliban insurgency. This is an important point, but one perhaps more out of the realm of what the average US citizen can do something about.



The fact is that innocent people are dying from heroin overdoses. Others, while still breathing are the walking dead and the poppy seeds have claimed at least a piece of their life. Let’s deal with casualties of the war here at home.



We can do something about this situation with effective drug education and drug treatment. Narconon provides both. 877-413-3073









http://www.jointogether.org/news/headlines/inthenews/2007/legalize-afghan-poppy.html



http://www.jointogether.org/news/headlines/inthenews/2008/taliban-stockpiles-opium-to.html



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Today is Graduation Day!

Today at NARCONON is a great day! This afternoon we have a graduation. I always love graduation being able to see the graduate's family being so proud of them and seeing the graduate themselves so happy to be alive and sober.

Our facility is a small facility which makes getting to know each and every student so much easier. We have the one on one contact with each and every student which helps them out so much. I love getting to talk to everyone everyday. It is very rewarding for me.

Well, I am going to blog later today after graduation probably! I must get back to my job at NARCONON.

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Useful things

Success Story from a Narconon student



“Things come to mind that I can have easily because I believe now that things are precious and need to be appreciated. It is now harder for me to throw away things. When I was using I threw away people, my career, my relationships and my dignity. Those are all very precious things that I did not appreciate but now I realize the significance of each of those things in my life and I intend on having them again.



There is a metal rack in the course room that really is serving no purpose. We’ve danced around it for days saying we could have it or we could let it remain in place. Just then I realized that I have not seen it put into use since I’ve been here. It sits there on the shelf taking up space. So now I’ve decided that the metal rack serves no purpose in this room so I can get rid of it. This relates to my life because how I have the tools and abilities to be able to distinguish between things in my life that are useful and positive influences and the things that are not reparable, replaceable or simply not useful.



This will help me further my sobriety throughout the rest of my life because I am no longer walking around with my blinders on and my mind is no longer clouded with junk.”





I get to see wins like this every day. Whether it is cocaine, pot, methamphetamine, oxycontin or other drugs, I am helping others to overcome their addiction.



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