War on drugs: Time to end failed strategies
Bob Petersen, Missoula
There is a magic pill that cures addiction. It is used in other countries and used to be legal here. You take one pill, one time, and without going through the painful detox symptoms one normally experiences you emerge a clean, non-addict.
The success rate in the few studies that have been done show more than 85 percent of patients still clean after five years. It works for all types of addiction because the addiction is almost never to the drug itself but to the escape it offers from other problems. However, much like MDMA and PTSD, simply because others use a drug for fun means genuine patients in need must be denied.
It’s time to quit letting the courts stuff the coffers of the prison industrial complex and of 12-step cult clinics and allow modern medicine to do its work. Or is it ancient medicine?
Joining the rest of the advanced medical world and using these miracle drugs can save tens of thousands of lives every year. Ignoring natural cures like cannabis, ayahuasca, San Pedro and Iboga simply because they don’t fit the traditional mold is simply immoral and stupid. As U.S. Rep. Steve Cohen,
D-Tenn., called for on the Floor of the House recently, it is time to end our failed War on Drugs and seek new remedies.
“Prohibition… goes beyond the bound of reason in that it attempts to control a man’s appetite by legislation and makes a crime out of things that are not crimes. A prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded.” – Abraham Lincoln
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Bob Petersen, Missoula
There is a magic pill that cures addiction. It is used in other countries and used to be legal here. You take one pill, one time, and without going through the painful detox symptoms one normally experiences you emerge a clean, non-addict.
The success rate in the few studies that have been done show more than 85 percent of patients still clean after five years. It works for all types of addiction because the addiction is almost never to the drug itself but to the escape it offers from other problems. However, much like MDMA and PTSD, simply because others use a drug for fun means genuine patients in need must be denied.
It’s time to quit letting the courts stuff the coffers of the prison industrial complex and of 12-step cult clinics and allow modern medicine to do its work. Or is it ancient medicine?
Joining the rest of the advanced medical world and using these miracle drugs can save tens of thousands of lives every year. Ignoring natural cures like cannabis, ayahuasca, San Pedro and Iboga simply because they don’t fit the traditional mold is simply immoral and stupid. As U.S. Rep. Steve Cohen,
D-Tenn., called for on the Floor of the House recently, it is time to end our failed War on Drugs and seek new remedies.
“Prohibition… goes beyond the bound of reason in that it attempts to control a man’s appetite by legislation and makes a crime out of things that are not crimes. A prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded.” – Abraham Lincoln
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