Titanic Post

As a vocal and active card carrying progressive and a reluctant liberal Democrat, I receive almost daily political emails from my less progressive relatives and friends. Most of these emails are jokes poking fun at Democrats that I actually find clever and funny. Some point out actual stupidities and weaknesses of the target. I say, right on! (more…)

Marijuana causes a pronounced lack of violent tendencies, makes you hungry, and worst of all, it makes you giggle.

Side effects of a more serious nature are that marijuana can be a replacement for tobacco, alcohol, paper products, and textiles, causing depressed profits and even obsolescence in those industries.

But in its illegal state*, it is very profitable for the prison industry, dealers and drug smuggling gangs and cartels, as well as dirty politicians and law enforcement officers, to name but a few.

In its legal state, it could be very profitable to growers, crop inspectors, wholesalers, retailers, the tax payer, regular law enforcement officers**, and the US Treasury to name but a few.

*Its establishment requires basic intelligence and the ability to think outside your ticky-tacky little boxes to understand.

**The main danger for law enforcement is the violence caused by dealers and drug smuggling gangs and cartels.

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Drug, alcohol treatment vital in solving problem

Health Happenings

Alamogordo Daily News
By Ken Nicholson,  For the Daily News

In spite of the nationwide prohibition of street drugs, New Mexico and Otero County, as well as the rest of the United States, has a persistently growing drug problem with increasing numbers of younger students using drugs and alcohol.

With that is the typically disastrous results of addiction, incarceration, unintended pregnancies, failing grades and school drop-outs. While education and law enforcement are making strides in stopping the illegal drug trade while educating our youth about the consequences of drug use, drug and alcohol use continues to be a devastating problem, suggesting once again that peer-pressure can be a stronger force than education. (more…)