Mexico's New Drug Law

My husband posted this on his blog and I thought it was something I should share with you. I've made a few changes to make it fit my blog a bit better, but he's right on with his concern about this new development!

Mexico's New Drug Law

As most of you know, MexPrez Vincente Fox is expected to sign into law a new bill that decriminalizes, as the New York Times reports, possession of up to "5 grams of marijuana, 5 grams of opium, 25 milligrams of heroin or 500 milligrams of cocaine."

That's not accurate. Other drugs, including Ecstasy, are also included in the decriminalization. ...

My wife has made a film that chronicles what happened to four families because of the casual -- not big time addictive, but "safe casual" -- use of the drugs Ecstasy and Ketamine. In it, she tells the story of Erin, who now struggles painfully to get through life because of a severe brain injury caused by "safe casual" use of Ketamine, an anaesthetic used primarily by vets. (You can meet Erin at the link above; there's a preview.)

The Ketamine Erin took was purchased in Mexico and brought back to California. It was easy for the boy who bought it to accomplish the trick, as you can see from this photo of a Mexican pharmacy. Now the trick will be done with heroin, opium, coke, various methamphetimine drugs and pot.

That's very bad news for our kids.

Some with real addictions will probably just move there to have a steady flow of cheap, legal drugs. By doing that, they'll be farther away from getting the treatment and help they need.

And for thousands of good kids who have come to believe that drugs can be taken safely and aren't that big a deal, trips to Mexico will now frequently include use of drugs that are rightfully illegal here. And with the drugs easy to purchase in Mexico, more of them will be coming home and shared with friends here.

And that, unfortunately, means more risks and more tragedies here at home.

Ecstasy and what kids think about my film!

Thank you!
I am a School Resource Officer at a High School. I am currently having a problem with Ecstasy use with my students. Atlanta Georgia is now the #1 distribution center for Ecstasy and we are an hour south of there.

I was reviewing your video in my office yesterday and one of my female students walked in and started watching it with me. She was so overwhelmed by the video that after school she told some of her friends about it and they returned after school just to watch the video. I teach a lot of drug education classes and will use your video in them. I teach all the incoming freshmen at Lagrange College every year, I believe that the video will have a huge impact on them.

Thank you very much for your time and energy in putting the video together, it is great!!!

Thank you for caring about your students and ordering the film to show them and hopefully it will help them to make wise choices! (Beth)

www.voiceofthevictims.com

OxyContin

Anonymous has left a new comment on my earlier post "Meth Poem sent to me:

I wanted to point out that unlike street drugs, OxyContin made by Purdue Pharma a company, purposely distributed oxy-contin to small rural areas at routine dr. visits purposely "to get the ball rolling”.

Now a multi million dollar industry, MASS amounts of these pain pills are available with easy access to the now addicted public. Like any addiction, the people are stopping at nothing to get more pills, stealing, lying, breaking into pharmacies at gunpoint, the usual addicted behavior of a addicted addict. More pills than people in NEED prescribed for pain by FAR.

Basically it's legal drug trade if you think about it...Purdue Pharma paid off employees who were against this horror story, and whatever the price it worked. The people who were against this now continue working for the company and MONEY keeps people quiet, changes morals, and obviously speaks louder than the millions addicted and dying from this pain pills mass distribution.. Purdue Pharma had good intentions??

We need pain pills, this I cannot deny. Suffering from pain is HELL and thank God for pain medications. This company targeted economy stricken little rural areas and handed these out like candy. Pushing I believe is the right term. Once a small company now a multi-million dollar company, and the users get addicted because the pills are easy to get in the street because there are so many distributed.

They are mass produced for the sole intent to make profit. More made than people in NEED by FAR.. Read the book about OxyContin.. It tells the true real story...

What is a parent supposed to do when drugs are legally sold and made in large amounts from a multi-million dollar company that is supposed to be helping cancer patients or severe injury cases for PAIN. And by abusing the drug, these addicts are looked down upon as low life addicts who "abuse the drug”, therefore, what would one expect?

If any drug is abused it’s the drug working against the victim. VICTIM is the key word. Addiction is not all people of low life scum, that the public is led to believe. Lawyers, business men and women, moms, dads, all once upstanding citizens, can fall into addiction and its too late once it takes hold of them.

Because the drug trade tends to be criminal thug run, in this case its a huge business legally operating with research phacilities, doctors, and every day people participating in mass amounts of pain pills distributed for MASS PROFIT as people are seriously addicted, become addicts with criminal behavior to get more pills, and are dying. NOT from the cancer, not from the pain, but from the product that is supposed to be helping these symptoms...

A Sister Cries Out

Carol has left a new comment on my earlier post "Meth Poem sent to me."

Hi Beth. This poem relates to all these drugs and or anyone with an addiction problem. These drugs use the victim and in most cases, turn an individual into a DESPERATE, unconscious, lying thief.

The only motive is to get high, and they will consume and destroy anyone and everything in the path of destruction
their desperation for the drug takes them.

All that once was, no longer is part of their conscious. I lost my sister to GHB sold over the counter, as a vitamin supplement; she had no idea what poison she was consuming until it was too late. It was a real sick, tragic story that haunts me every single day.

My youngest sister is now hooked on oxycontin. Although she is abusing the drug knowingly, she is NOT even close to the person I once knew.

These drugs destroy eagerly and once addicted, it's hell to be the one still standing in the same place, watching
helplessly as if it were cancer eating away her soul.... I know people who stole necklaces off their dying grandmother’s neck while pretending to give a last kiss. I know a girl who left her baby at the hospital and has no concern to see him but uses excuses (lies) that she is making effort to go see the baby just to
get out the door to get more pills. I know people who use the elderly knowing they are terminal just to befriend them until they pass away and steal all they had.


IT NEVER ENDS! THE EXTREME DESPAIR AND DESPERATE SICK LEVELS THESE DRUGS BRING ONCE WONDERFUL PEOPLE TOO A LEVEL SO LOW IT’S UNBEARABLE. I have been involved in fighting this drug parasite for a long time now and it’s like dominoes. I tried helping those I had any confrontation with all I have in me. I
USED money, time, love, compassion, and I pray, and I pray. It’s not a "good time" taking poison and believing it won’t hurt you or you won’t get addicted.

IF YOU THINK YOU CAN HANDLE IT AND IT WONT HAPPEN TO YOU, CHANCES ARE YOU ARE ALREADY TAKEN. THESE DRUGS WILL TAKE YOU FOR A RIDE AND YOU NO LONGER CAN EVEN RATIONALIZE RIGHT FROM WRONG AND ALL THAT YOU ONCE WERE, WILL BE
CONSUMED AND YOU NO LONGER ARE YOU...

Like me, I want to live my life with my morals, my conscious, and with a desire to maintain my human functions the best I can, as I watch my family decay helplessly I can only ask God to be with us all..

God bless everyone.

Thank you, Carol! Readers, you can see how beautiful Carol's sister was before GHB addiction took her away.