In 'Heartbreaking Video', Toddler Tries to Wake Up OD'ed Mom

In 'Heartbreaking Video', Toddler Tries to Wake Up OD'ed Mom [Video]- newser.com

Excerpt from this article:

 "Instead of helping when a 36-year-old woman collapsed from an apparent overdose, leaving her 2-year-old daughter crying on the floor of a Family Dollar, a bystander whipped out their cellphone and started filming, WILX reports. And while police wish the bystander would have helped instead, they will be using the video (which can be seen here) as evidence of child endangerment against the unnamed woman. The video shows the woman lying on the floor of a Family Dollar in Lawrence, Massachusetts, as her daughter cries and tries to wake her up..."
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Recommended poem:

Miss Heroin

Video (Not Recommended!)

Let's Make a Dope Deal, by Cheech & Chong

Recommended reading:

 Why Christians Make Miserable Addicts
I Want to Get High
And Homeland Security is Going to Oversee The Elections? 
Widow of Heroin Addicts Makes Her Point Quite Effectively With Final Family Photo - canadafreepress.com
The Coke Brothers! Bush & Clinton Linked Together in Drug Trade - infowars.com

As Heroin And Cocaine Deaths Soar, Obama Wants To Let Non-Violent Drug Offenders Out Of Prison

As Heroin And Cocaine Deaths Soar, Obama Wants To Let Non-Violent Drug Offenders Out Of Prison - cnsnews.com

Excerpt from this article:

"But as Obama calls for "criminal justice reform" that would send 'low-level' drug offenders to drug courts and treatment programs instead of prison, the poison they peddle is taking a bigger and bigger toll on Americans. The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says drug poisoning (overdose) is the number-one cause of injury-related death in the United States, with 43,982 deaths occurring in 2013, a 6 percent increase from 2012."

Food for thought:

"According to information provided by the State of Washington more than 90% of felony defendants were indigent at the time of their arrest." - Justice Matters, 2004

 
"Since 1980, California has built 1 college campus - and 21 prisons." - Time magazine, April 2, 2012.

 If president Obama were really serious about criminal justice reform, he would ask for a special prosecutor to investigate the many 'alleged' crimes detailed in the following book by Peter Schweizer:

Clinton Cash: The Untold Story Of How And Why Foreign Governments And Businesses Made Bill And Hillary Rich

More recommended reading:

Why Christians Make Miserable Addicts

Rep. Blumenauer: Marijuana Sales Taxes In Oregon to Be Spent On Drug Addiction Treatment

Rep. Blumenauer: Marijuana Sales Taxes In Oregon to Be Spent On Drug Addiction Treatment - cnsnews.com

Excerpt from this article:

"According to the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), marijuana is considered a Schedule I drug “with potentially severe psychological and physical dependence.” Schedule I drugs are the most dangerous of all the drug schedules. Other examples of Schedule I drugs include: LSD and ecstasy."
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Recommended reading:

Life In Prison For Selling $20 Of Weed - thedailybeast.com
Poll: Americans Want More Gov't Spending, Less Taxes, Legalized Pot - breitbart.com
Candy's Dandy, But Pot's Scary - mapinc.org
Ladies, Who Needs a Drink?
Why Christians Make Miserable Addicts

Recommended podcast:

Legalization of Pot in Colorado: The Pursuit of the Wrong Kind of Happiness, by Pastor Kevin Swanson

Keeping the Common People Sedated

Keeping the Common People Sedated: Putin Caps Vodka Prices. Could The Same Thing Happen In The United States? - dark-bid.com

Excerpt from this article:

"Merry Christmas! Schastlivogo Rozhdestva! Christmas just got a little merrier for the Russians - but this could be the last Christmas for the ones who got toxic hepatitis after drinking bootlegged liquor laced with polyhexamethylene guanide hydrochloride, a medical disinfectant. Putin wants to impose a price ceiling on the price of vodka."
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Song not recommended (unless you too want to be sedated!):

I Want To Be Sedated, by the Ramones

The Bible says:

"And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed. The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armor of light. Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in clambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying. But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfill the lusts thereof." - Romans 13:11-14

Sinking Colorado: "All Weed, No Easter On Denver Post's Page One"

Sinking Colorado: "All Weed, No Easter On Denver Post's Page One" - newsbusters.org

Excerpt from this article:

"Dan Gainor relayed to me that Sunday's New York Times hasn't a whiff of Easter on its front page -- not even in its blurbs at the bottom, saved for epic stories like 'U.N. Cholera Struggle in Haiti.' Above that is a depressing story about a 12-year-old Ecuadorean girl who committed suicide in Mexico after a second failed attempt at illegal immigration into America.  But it could be worse. Jim Romenesko reports from marijuana-addled Colorado that the Denver Post had nothing on Easter, but a huge writeup on 'Welcome to Weed Country'": 

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Recommended reading and listening (no, I'm not going to recommend you listen to Rocky Mountain High or Wildwood Weed):

The Worst Fire in Colorado's History:  Why Colorado Won't Repent, by Pastor Kevin Swanson

It's Easter Sunday: He is Risen Indeed! (my post)
Alcohol Anonymous (AA) in the Crosshairs (my post)

Side Effects of Mexico's Drug Violence: More Exorcisms

Side Effects of Mexico's Drug Violence: More Exorcisms - newser.com

Excerpt from this article:

 "An unexpected side effect of Mexico's rampant drug violence: more exorcisms. Seven years of brutal killings have created "an infestation of demons," says exorcist Father Francisco Bautista, who sees expelling the evil spirits as the solution."
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Recommended reading (my post):

What Would Jesus Do ... With Mexico's Faith Healers?

Today in the News - February 7, 2013

Here is what is going on in the world today:

Surprised Investigation Aimed at Homeschoolers - WND News
'Insulting Quaran' Charges Snare 2 More Children - WND News
DHS Solicits Bids for 26.1 Million Rounds of Ammunition - The New American
Outgoing Transportation Secretary: America is One Big Pothole Now, MichelleMalkin.com
Doctor Slams National Debt, Political Correctness, and Health Care in Front of President Obama - Breitbart TV

Podcasts

Brown University's Student Health Plan Will Cover Sex Changes, by Pastor Sean Harris
7-Year-Old Playing an Imaginary Game at School Gets Suspended for Real, by Pastor Sean Harris
Mixed Martial Arts and Christians, by Pastor Sean Harris
Drugging America into a Stupor - Amphetamines for Kids, by Pastor Kevin Swanson
Persecution in Eritrea, Israel, Eastern Africa, Turkey, by Bob Faulkner
Evolution Weekend, by Jim Schneider

Marijuana-dispenser stock Jumps 3000% in One Week

Marijuana-dispenser stock gets too high - MarketWatch:

See my posts:

I Want to Get High
Let's Make a Dope Deal

Let's Make A Dope Deal!

I have a confession to make: I have never seen any of the Cheech & Chong movies. I'm sure that revelation doesn't leave you gasping for breath, but I bring it up because, while I have never seen any of the Cheech & Chong movies, I am old enough to remember their audio cassettes that came out in the 1970s.

One of their skits was titled Let's Make a Dope Deal.  This was a parody of the popular game show Let's Make a Deal, only the 'prize' the the contestants were after - behind the three windows - was drugs (and of course, if you chose the wrong window, well, you get 'busted!').

It was a very humorous tape for a teenage boy who grew up in the country and had only been to a big city once or twice in his life - and that with his parents!

But I recall one day my parents were invited to spend Thanksgiving or Christmas with a relative who lived in a very large city. They had a teenage daughter - I think she was probably my second cousin - who lived at home with them.

One of my brothers and I were listening to the Cheech and Chong tape, Let's Make a Dope Deal, and my cousin (second cousin?) over heard it and asked if she could borrow it.  We said 'sure.'

Later I learned that my cousin was already heavily addicted to drugs. In fact, her addiction got so bad that at one point her parents had to kick her out of the house and lock the door to keep her from coming back inside!

That's been over 30 years ago, and I have no idea what ever became of my cousin. I had only met her once or twice before this at family gatherings, and I don't think I have seen her since that date.

I thought about this recently when I came across the following story: CIA Manages Drug Trade.  For people who do not subscribe to the conspiratorial theory of history (see Gary Allen's book None Dare Call it Conspiracy), reading an article like this can be unsettling. In fact, I have no doubt that many will reject the notion that the CIA is involved in the drug trade.

The CIA (and other government agencies, not the least of which is the United States military) are trying desperately to stop drugs from coming into this country. Or so we are told. I'm sorry but I don't believe it.

People who sell illegal drugs - and those who use them - are pawns in the hands of the wealthy elite who want to destroy America and surrender our sovereignty to a world government under the United Nations.

When that happens, the drug trade will stop. But don't expect much progress while the stars and stripes are still flying high!

See my post I Want to Get High

I Want to Get High!

Imagine for a moment that you were at a public place - say a library - and you saw your 13 year old daughter hanging out with some of her classmates.  You decide to go over and say hi, but as you get closer you overhear the following conversation:

Your daughter: "I want to get high!"

Classmate #1 "Oh, that's right. You've never been high before."

Classmate #2 "I'll get high with you."

I was at the library recently and I overheard that conversation between 3 middle school girls - I'm guessing they were in 7th or 8th grade. I remember when I was that age I was getting high on a regular basis. My drug of choice was gasoline -sniffing or 'huffing' gas was a regular part of my life at that age.

The dangerous thing about drugs is not what it might do to your health. There are many legal things you can do to ruin your health without taking illegal drugs.  You can over eat and get heart disease. You can under eat and starve yourself. You can work yourself to death (literally!). You can speed and drive recklessly in a car or a motorcycle.

The real danger of drugs can be summed up in 9 letters: A.D.D.I.C.T.I.O.N.  Many drugs are addictive and it is the addictive aspect of drugs that make them so dangerous.  The Bible says:

"His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins." Proverbs 5:22

A lot of scientific studies has been done on addictions, and very educated people can go into great detail about the 'biochemical aspects' of this problem. Many of the 12 step programs call their addictions a 'disease.' I don't believe that.

Addictions, are first and foremost, a spiritual problem.  And therefore the solution to addictions must be spiritual as well.

Years ago I was working night shift in the psyche ward at the hospital I had been working at, and I saw a poster on the wall with the poem titled Miss Heroin.  I want to end part one of this series on addictions with this poem:

Miss Heroin

So now, little man (young lady), you've grown tired of grass

LSD, acid cocaine and hash,

and someone pretending to be a true friend,

said, 'I'll introduce you to Miss Heroin.'

Well honey, before you start fooling with me,

just let me inform you of how it will be.

For I will seduce you and make you my slave

I've sent men (and women) much stronger than you to their grave.

You think you could never become a disgrace

and wind up addicted to poppyseed waste?

So you'll start inhaling me one afternoon,

you'll take me into your arms very soon.

And once I've entered deep down in your veins,

the craving will nearly drive you insane.

You'll swindle your mother and just for a buck,

you'll turn into something vile and corrupt.

You'll mug and you'll steal for my narcotic charm

and feel contentment when I'm in your arms.

The day when you realize the monster you've grown

you'll solemnly promise to leave me alone.

If you think you've got the mystical knack

then sweetie just try getting me off your back.

The vomit, the cramps, your gut tied in knots,

The jangling nerves screaming for just one more shot.

The hot chills and cold sweats and withdrawal pains,

can only be saved by my little white grains.

There's no other way, there's no need to look,

for deep down inside you will know you are hooked.

You'll desperately run to your pusher and then,

you'll welcome me back to your arms once again.

And when you've returned, just as I foretold!

I know that you'll give me your body and soul.

You'll give up your morals your conscience your heart,

and you will be mine until 'death do us part!'

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