Are they breaking the law
Posted: Tue Jan 25, 2005 6:01 pm
Before I read your message I was thinking that I am being hard on you and you don't deserve it. It is not you personally. I know from reading your posts that you are, inherently, a good, hard working person who believes in what they are doing.
Forgive me if I seem a little strident at times.
That being said I will now address your perspective.
Funnily enough it is not the govenment who sees these kids, diagnosis them or treats them. They also don't tell us what we see with our own eyes.
Drug induced psychosis is a perminant thing, and as I said most do go home again within a week, they have done things that have caused their families, police, doctors or someone to bring them into hospital.
Some have had problems that may or may not have surfaced before the use of drugs, no one can tell.
What you describe to me is unlike what I have obseved for the last umpteen years. As you are describing the patient's condition it sounds more like they may have believed that they had smoked pot but it was probably laced with something else such as PCP (phencyclidine). It is known as a horse tranquilizer and the results seem more as to what you are describing than smoking pot. Another similar drug is belladonna. Try this site for more info.
http://www.erowid.org/plants/belladonna ... onna.shtml
Kids don't need to be put in prison if they have just been using drugs in social situations or trying things out, and if that is what you do in America then that is far worse... I'm sure a prison record is worse than a mental health record!
I can only agree with this sentiment but, as I have said, there are people that truly believe that they are doing the right thing but they are merely mouthpieces for the people that want to keep it illegal. The profits are massive. We are talking trillions of dollars that have been accumulated over the past 30 to 40 years alone.
Much of the moneys have gone into legitimate businesses but their legitmacy is always used as a means to launder money from other things such as gambling, prostitution etc.
Forgive me if I seem a little strident at times.
That being said I will now address your perspective.
Funnily enough it is not the govenment who sees these kids, diagnosis them or treats them. They also don't tell us what we see with our own eyes.
Drug induced psychosis is a perminant thing, and as I said most do go home again within a week, they have done things that have caused their families, police, doctors or someone to bring them into hospital.
Some have had problems that may or may not have surfaced before the use of drugs, no one can tell.
What you describe to me is unlike what I have obseved for the last umpteen years. As you are describing the patient's condition it sounds more like they may have believed that they had smoked pot but it was probably laced with something else such as PCP (phencyclidine). It is known as a horse tranquilizer and the results seem more as to what you are describing than smoking pot. Another similar drug is belladonna. Try this site for more info.
http://www.erowid.org/plants/belladonna ... onna.shtml
Kids don't need to be put in prison if they have just been using drugs in social situations or trying things out, and if that is what you do in America then that is far worse... I'm sure a prison record is worse than a mental health record!
I can only agree with this sentiment but, as I have said, there are people that truly believe that they are doing the right thing but they are merely mouthpieces for the people that want to keep it illegal. The profits are massive. We are talking trillions of dollars that have been accumulated over the past 30 to 40 years alone.
Much of the moneys have gone into legitimate businesses but their legitmacy is always used as a means to launder money from other things such as gambling, prostitution etc.