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The Trumpet

October 28, 2012
By Richard Palmer

With reader comments

Where are young people buying drugs today? The truth will shock you!

Where do young people buy drugs today? If you envision a dodgy backstreet deal with kids handing over cash to strangers, you’re wrong. Instead, picture someone sitting in front of their computer, paying by credit card. A few days later, the postman delivers the drugs to their door in discreet packaging.

This is the new, seemingly safe, drugs trade booming in Britain.

These websites aren’t hidden in some shady corner of the Internet. I’m hardly familiar with the drug scene but it took me just two Google searches to find hundreds of websites offering dangerous drugs delivered right to my door.
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“We thought it was good news when demand for cocaine and heroin began to fall,” said. Dr Owen Bowden-Jones, who founded the Club Drug Clinic in London. “What has happened is that they have been replaced by other drugs that we are trying to understand.”

Since 1998, Cannabis use has halved. Ecstasy use has also halved over a similar period of time. In that time, the rate of illegal drug use by people aged 16 to 24 has fallen from 30 percent to 19 percent.

That looks like progress. But the Angelus Foundation, which aims to educate young people about the dangers of these drugs, estimates that one in three people aged 16 to 24 are likely to try legal highs. “We might be reaching a situation where legal highs are as attractive as tobacco these days for youngsters,” said the drugs coordinator for West Yorkshire Police, Bryan Dent.
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Because many of these drugs are new, the long-term effects are unknown. Often, there are no studies into their side effects. “These kids are playing Russian roulette,” Vice President of Caron Treatment Centers Dr. Harris Stratyner told The Fix, a website on drugs and recovery. “It’s absolutely ludicrous that anyone would put this into your body. It’s like trying to get high off arsenic or rat poison.”
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The arrival of legal highs shows the flaw in the West’s drug policies. Stopping people from getting drugs isn’t working. Stopping people from wanting them is the only solution.

But this is much harder. It requires a complete change in society.

It means children can no longer be brought up in a world without hope, where temporary pleasure is not their only goal. It means revolutionizing family life, so that parents protect and nurture their children. It means that teens and other young people spend much of their free time in wholesome, family pursuits, not out clubbing. The message put out by movies and popular music will have to change.

It means creating a whole society of people full of hope, focused and enthusiastic about what they can accomplish.

It also means having a society where there is no one willing to sell potentially lethal products for a profit. Where no one sells a product marked “not for human consumption” to people that they know will smoke or swallow it.

Does all this sound impossible? It is with man. But this drug-free world is coming. For more information about what this world will look like, read our free booklet The Wonderful World Tomorrow—What It Will Be Like.

Also, be sure to keep your family safe from these dangerous substances. They are much easier to obtain than you may think. For practical advice, see our article “Heroin at Your House?”
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http://www.thetrumpet.com/article/9985.18.0.0/society/britains-new-drug-scene
 
It means children can no longer be brought up in a world without hope, where temporary pleasure is not their only goal. It means revolutionizing family life, so that parents protect and nurture their children. It means that teens and other young people spend much of their free time in wholesome, family pursuits, not out clubbing. The message put out by movies and popular music will have to change.

It means creating a whole society of people full of hope, focused and enthusiastic about what they can accomplish.
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I have never, ever, laughed so hard or so long at a public policy suggestion as this one.

Does all this sound impossible? It is with man. But this drug-free world is coming. For more information about what this world will look like, read our free booklet The Wonderful World Tomorrow—What It Will Be Like.
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... by Elron Hubbard? Become The Ubermensch You Always Wanted To Be With Home Thetan Therapy?
 
The comment section on this article is absolutely surreal .. What kind of paper is this?
 
From there "About us" page...
http://www.thetrumpet.com/help/about

The Trumpet uses a single overarching criterion that sets it apart from other news sources and keeps it focused like a laser beam on what truly is important. That criterion is prophetic significance. The Trumpet seeks to show how current events are fulfilling the biblically prophesied description of the prevailing state of affairs just before the Second Coming of Jesus Christ.
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Where was I reading that the book of Revelation may have been an account of some mushroom trips?
 
The Trumpet is an openly pro-life, pro-family extremist Christian site as the comment above shows.

If you want to understand their view, try Focus on the Family or Concerned Women for America. Their solution includes more stay-home mothers, banning banks from taking two incomes into account when they offer a mortgage, banning gay marriage and civil unions, stopping all abortions and more churchgoing. Which most users probably won't find realistic.
 
That article is bizarre. They make a good point that a better society with better opportunities will reduce drug use, but to say this is coming is quite preposterous. Certainly in the UK, things are becoming more and more bleak and depressing by the day, and poor economic policies are damaging substantially future job opportunities, particularly for young people (diversion of money from poorer people to the rich, as the Conservatives appear to favour, rather than lower level infrastructural funding and investment which is essential for a strong jobs market).

Social mobility is effectively stationary in the UK at the minute (and things are likely to get a lot worse). I suspect drug use amongst people (certainly in the UK) will rise somewhat dramatically in the next few years, with more middle-upper class people becoming drug users, as opportunities even for those look like they are under threat.
 
CGI shows us spectacular visions of the world; away from the screen/cyberspace, reality is unattractive. And that article reads like something from the Watchtower.
 
clubberdude said:
That article is bizarre. They make a good point that a better society with better opportunities will reduce drug use, but to say this is coming is quite preposterous. Certainly in the UK, things are becoming more and more bleak and depressing by the day, and poor economic policies are damaging substantially future job opportunities, particularly for young people (diversion of money from poorer people to the rich, as the Conservatives appear to favour, rather than lower level infrastructural funding and investment which is essential for a strong jobs market).

Social mobility is effectively stationary in the UK at the minute (and things are likely to get a lot worse). I suspect drug use amongst people (certainly in the UK) will rise somewhat dramatically in the next few years, with more middle-upper class people becoming drug users, as opportunities even for those look like they are under threat.
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I can never understand how right-wingers who want to cut taxes to help a small group of people make millions and let companies go to the wall classify themselves as "pro-enterprise" or "pro-jobs", they have clearly not helped people get jobs.
 
the quote in the article is definitely right about the lack of hope and community being the main cause of addiction amongst middle to upper class youth. but now the lack of opportunities is emerging from the lower to middle and maybe even eventually upper class, we will see that the only solution, as the article suggests, is not to magically fix capitalism but to cope with its deadly effect with the only antidote: spirituality. who with a heart and mind can argue with this?
 
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