For people who may believe its not a good idea to legalize medical marijuana, consider the pills everyone is taking these days. This blog entry is not for or against drugs - its merely pointing out the societal implications of pharmaceutical medications.
We have kids on pills because they're acting like kids or can't focus in school. Neither could I when I was a kid because I was to busy thinking about all of the fun stuff I could be doing with my friends. But I went on to graduate with honors from NYU and now have a Masters Degree, both of which I struggled through drug-free and distracted by life in general. We didn't have pills for kids when I was growing up and we shouldn't have them now. We had detention, getting grounded and having other privileges cut off in order to behave. Maybe if you can't control your children, your children need new parents who can handle the job.
Moms are too stressed out from being Moms, so they have pills. Driving in Montclair between the hours of 2-5 pm has become dangerous because most of the people driving their minivans are high on pharmaceuticals. Before you get upset about this comment, remember that the Rolling Stones were aware of this long ago when the penned the lyrics to "Mothers Little Helper" in 1966
"What a drag is is getting older
Things are different today
I hear ev'ry mother say
Mother needs something today to calm her down
Mother needs something today to calm her down
And though she's not really ill, there's a little yellow pill
She goes running for the shelter of a mother's little helper
She goes running for the shelter of a mother's little helper
And it helps her on her way, gets her through her busy day"
College students are conjuring up medical reasons for doctors in order to get Adderoll, a combination of dextroamphetamine and amphetatime, or buying it on the street (referencing the recent drug bust at Columbia University) so they can stay up all night to get work done the day before its due. In the 1980's we called it cocaine and black mollies, but the pharmaceutical industry made it legal when they turned it into a pill and said it would help people with ADHD.
Red Bull? That's just liquid cocaine. I had less than half of a can and thought I was going to be rushed to the hospital because I was so high and my heart was beating so rapidly to the point that it began to hurt. Kids should not be drinking this. However, someone approved it, and combined with obsessions for coffee, prescribed pills to calm people down are being chewed on like tic-tacs to offset amped up consumers stuck in a schizophrenic pattern of highs and lows.
Adults are being prescribed pain killers for back pain, when basic massage therapy and cannabis would be a much healthier combination and would alleviate addiction and toxicity. This is the thesis of this entry: Holistic health leads to a better community. Montclair has long been recognized as a community that embraces holistic health through massage therapy, yoga, acupuncture, meditation workshops, parks, public programming and eastern philosophies that permeate some of the subcultures within our township.
California embraced the idea long ago and still remains a state with a positive reputation, a relaxed environment and a state that many people from the east coast travel to for vacations.
If you would like to know more about the 15 states who have realized pot is important from a holistic medicinal perspective, check out this link with all the details you need to know. Medical Marijuana details
