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Originally Posted by Green Light

Mexico enacted a controversial law on Thursday decriminalizing possession of small amounts of marijuana, cocaine, heroin and other drugs while encouraging government-financed treatment for drug dependency free of charge.

The law sets out maximum “personal use” amounts for drugs, also including LSD and methamphetamine. People detained with those quantities will no longer face criminal prosecution; the law goes into effect on Friday.

Anyone caught with drug amounts under the personal-use limit will be encouraged to seek treatment, and for those caught a third time treatment is mandatory — although no penalties for noncompliance are specified.

Mexican authorities said the change only recognized the longstanding practice here of not prosecuting people caught with small amounts of drugs.

The maximum amount of marijuana considered to be for “personal use” under the new law is 5 grams — the equivalent of about four marijuana cigarettes. Other limits are half a gram of cocaine, 50 milligrams of heroin, 40 milligrams for methamphetamine and 0.015 milligrams of LSD.

Under those circumstances.....my cousins would have went for their prescribed oxycodene drug treatment and then returned home to the lab to indulged in cross pollinated herbs and/or other substances ground into some Good Shit.....actually that is exactly what they did.

If they were still around and there was legal personal limit, they would still want something just a bit more and a little different than the legal limit.

Seems to be working well.

Your sarcasm is spot on.

Originally Posted by dr. mabuse

I say this respectfully without any baiting, yet many assumptions are made here.

Just some random thoughts, MOO, YMMV.

1. You'll find many interesting (!?) opinions around here from people out-of-their field on mental health topics, but let's try to enjoy it anyway, YMMV.

2. As a psychology student, you may have run across traits that are common to criminals and addicts. I recall it was impulse control and/or poor situational awareness and/or low self esteem. IMO, this is what drives the problem on both sides of the equation.

3. Just because Uncle Sam and company get involved doesn't fix the problem. It often enough makes it worse I think. Far too many variables.

4. LSD-25 trips are affected by "set" and "setting". A pleasant person in the room wearing a white lab coat assures nothing during a trip. MOO, a counselor that thinks they can completely control set and setting should find something else to do for a living. A little more study on LSD may be helpful.

5. Taking drugs out of the line-up from the drug companies? I don't believe that given the substantial $$$ at stake here, they would simply walk away. How exactly would you "take" them out of their line-up? How is that done?

6. As far as carrying out a plan, logistically speaking only, if we would cut loose the people that know how to deal with criminals in an aggressive fashion, that may help. I thought the Phoenix program worked. That's what I was told. Yes, I know, the yes-but monkeys out there will say that there are substantial legal/other issues with that type of action. I agree. I'm just sayin'.

The other side of the equation, how do you restore a healthy self esteem in people, especially those that don't want to get better.

That's the tough one. Feel free to PM me and let's take this discussion to the back of the house.

Take care.

Just some non-educated observation....

Most of the people I know or have known that have destroyed their lives with drugs have several things in common.

1. They rarely if ever received a spanking during childhood.
2. Their parents were either helicopters or non-participating
3. They spent most summers idly at the local pool, the shopping mall or the arcade
4. They were not required to work.
5. They had no hobbies besides the pool, the mall or the arcade


and when I look at the spoon fed f-ups my Oldest Daughter went to school with, they have those very same similarities.