I have just been reading an article from Change.org proposing legalising drugs as a solution. You don’t need the link as it is a common enough proposal and they all say about the same thing. I’m sure have heard all these arguments before. Mostly from dealers, pushers or users, but not always, some are just from desperate people that either haven’t thought the thing through properly or are arm chair critics and have never been involved intimately enough to get true data. .
My reply:
How desperate can one get. Focusing on the wrong problem of course never solves the problem. Here is my reply to this lost soul.
The drug situation always comes from an earlier problem.
All this focus on the drug problem totally misses the real problem because the drug thing is too late on the chain of events that caused the drug situation.
It always starts off with some earlier problem that the person is struggling with that drugs are a solution to.
It can be bad school grades, fights at home, conflicts with peers, emotional upsets with friends or enemies, weak self-respect, and a lot of times boredom and the need for excitement.
No sane, happy person truly succeeding in life and with the true data about drugs gets into the stupidity of taking them. The person always has a problem of some kind beforehand. Hundreds and hundreds of people we have rehabbed tell the same story.
The only solution to resolving the drug scene is via proper education, not weirdo scare drama dramatics or useless “dangers of drugs” campaigns.
Getting to kids early enough before the promoters and getting them to understand what drugs are all about is workable as we prove at every school presentation. But even this is not enough on its own. It also needs to be accompanied with help in the other areas such as study problems, friendship problems, getting along with others and most of all helping the individual to discover and/or revitalise their goals and purposes in life so they do not have time to be bored. Everyone has something in which they are or once was interested, many times they are buried by invalidation and ridicule from others. Kids can be very cruel to their own in this area and make others withdraw into a shell. Drugs can become very attractive to a person wiped out by their peers.
Get working in these areas and you will remove the need, interest, reason and desire for drugs and the pushers will have no customers and that is the end of the drug problem in all but for the really stupid. And nobody can save them. One hundred percent solutions to anything are not obtainable. Solutions for the majority certainly are and they are really worth going after.
