How can we help our governmentsand police win the war on drugs? both help AND victory ARE possible!
Just because someone is evil does not necessarily mean he is thick.
Drug traffickers are a case in point. They have shown themselves to be devious,and cunning criminal-entrepreneurs. Over the past couple of decades inparticular they have also have proven adroit at adapting to rapidly changingmarket conditions. When drug enforcement agencies make life difficult in onearea, the traffickers simply switch their activities to another area. In sodoing, they often demonstrate a great deal of organizing flair and, onoccasion, considerable ingenuity.
For example, when the Drug Enforcement Agency sought to clamp down on cocainecoming into the United Statesvia South Florida, the Columbian manufacturers hired Mexican drug traffickersto smuggle their contraband across the Mexican border into the U.S.Most likely they calculated the cost of paying Mexican fellow criminals a cutof their profits for services rendered was less than what it would cost them toplay cat and mouse with the DEA in Florida.
When U.S.border security was tightened after September 11, 2001, drug traffickersactually began to dig tunnels under the Mexico-U.S. border! One of the largestones found was three quarters of a mile long and housed a full two tons ofbaled marijuana.
By way of a third example, when law enforcement became a problem for them inPhiladelphia,the local drug barons moved their stash houses into the suburbs. And in Washington State, a cottage industry of marijuanagrown indoors in private suburban residences flourished in response to theincreased destruction by the authorities of marijuana crops in nationalforests.
And just in the last month, according to federal drug authorities, Atlanta has now become the new gateway for the movement ofdrugs to eastern U.S.regions.
"The ‘balloon theory' is used to explain situations like this,"stated Derry Hallmark, Director of Admissions and Certified Chemical DependencyCounselor at Narconon Arrowhead.
Located in Canadian, Oklahoma,Narconon Arrowhead is one of the world's leading drug and alcoholrehabilitation centers. Mr. Hallmark went on to explain that when you squeeze aballoon in one area, the air in the balloon simply moves to a different part ofthe balloon.
Similarly, when drug enforcement applies pressure in one area, the drugs willsimply flow through a different area.
This embroils government in an endless cat-and-mouse game of chasing an elusiveand fabian adversary from pillar to post. Vast resources are expended for alimited result: at best merely inconveniencing the traffickers but doing littleto actually stem the flow of drugs into a country.
One can imagine this must break the hearts of those men and women who dedicatethemselves to defending their country from this greed-driven assault upon thewell-being of its citizens.
It has become painfully self-evident that policing, while valid and vital, doesnot on its own provide a workable solution to the problem of the drugsepidemic. The police could do with some help in the shape of effective actionto choke off the demand that engorges their adversary with such vast quantitiesof lucre. Their efforts must in other words be accompanied by effective meansof CHOKING OFF DEMAND.
There are two ways of reducing demand: one is rehabilitation of the addict thatgets him off drugs permanently. The other is drug education for the young thatresults in THEIR decision to skip the whole drugs thing as a mug's game.
We need both of these strategies to come into play on a grand scale and we needit now. While there are some vested interests that profit from the continuationof an unresolved drugs epidemic, pharmaceutical companies and many profit-basedrehab programs prominent among these, society as a whole is being decimated byit. There may soon be no stable civilization left in which the aforementionedinterests can enjoy their spoils.
Of all the drug programs on the market, the most effective in terms of bothrehabilitation and drug education is that offered by the non-profit Narcononprogram and a smart government would do its utmost to give Narconon's highlydedicated teams every assistance to get their job done. A diversion ofresources towards Narconon's provenly successful strategies would greatlyassist any government that seriously intends to win the war on drugs.
At its more than 100 centers around the world, seven out of ten Narconongraduates have gone on to live drug-free lives, a phenomenal success rate thatto my knowledge is unrivalled by any other rehab program.
On the drug education side of things Narconon reaches young people in theirtens of thousands every year with a highly successful drug education curriculumthat really communicates a drug-free message to the young, frequently receivingrave reports from pupils and teachers like. The Narconon drug education programrepresents the way forward towards educating the young out of ever starting ondrugs and makes a future possible where drug use will actually decline and thedemand for drugs, having peaked, will then go into a long-term free fall.
"What message do we want to send to our young people?" added Mr.Hallmark. "They should understand that life is better when one isdrug-free. Let's send that message first."
