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Marijuana
Promotion and Marketing
A 21st Century BC Business
Marketing: the conceiving and packaging and
the moving of a specific product into public hands. It means to
prepare and take to and place on the market.. (LRH - ED 459-56 Flag)
Promote: to contribute to the progress, development,
or growth of; further; encourage. ( Funk and Wagnalls Standard Desk
Dictionary)
MARIJUANA POSITIONING
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The
Promotion and Marketing of Marijuana is taking the same avenues
as legitimately marketable products in BC. You'll see promotion
of pot in magazines, newspaper, given political support, health
officers endorsing or failing to denounce it, Judges failing to
convict, Newspapers report smoking it, and 'compassion' clubs selling
it. Marijuana has been positioned below or 'not as bad as' alcohol
and cigarettes for only one reason: To gain acceptance with an unfamiliar
public market, i.e. those who aren't pot heads or haven't smoked
pot. These positioning efforts are NOT an effort to show how safe
marijuana is. If that were true why would the promoters have chosen
the two most deadly substances in the world? Interestingly these
two substances (drugs) are the two most used drugs on the planet.
Are they the most dangerous because they are dangerous or because
they are accepted drugs and used more than any other? Truth be told,
they are dangerous because they are the drugs that are accepted
and used more than any other. Marijuana promoters and pushers would
like marijuana to take ranking against the big two of alcohol and
tobacco. But who is cashing in on this huge marketing and promotional
effort and who is paying for it?
 Illegal
trade of BC marijuana is between $ 3 and $6 Billion per year. If
your selling it or its products (seeds) most likely your harvesting
it as a cash crop, lying, hiding your actions and living like a
criminal and tax evader or a ghost living off the lives of others.
If your buying it you have seen many take stronger drugs, ruin their
health, have relationships disintegrate, seen people use and get
stoned instead of achieve worthwhile goals and some have seen worse
and turned their heads. By taking attention off the results and
saying it didn't happen because of the pot doesn't change the consequences
of this billion dollar business - BC's largest, from reeling in
its toll.
MARIJUANA SIDE EFFECTS
The
death toll in car accidents, sports injuries, workplace accidents
etc. etc. extends beyond the day pot is smoked. Marijuana stays
active in the system for 30 plus days altering a person's perception,
coordination, judgment, and slows reflexes. In Australia over 50%
of the car accident drivers test positive for marijuana. I don't
know that testing is usual in other countries. Many dope experimentation
involving moving up toharder drugs are done in connection with pot
or alcohol.
Unprotected sex with risky partners is again done more often while
stoned. I heard of a male marijuana user who had AIDS infect ½
dozen young women one summer in Whistler, BC. I recall his comment
was, "That's their problem". Sense of personal responsibility
for the consequences of ones actions and marijuana smokers don't
often go together. Consider how much responsibility a friend takes
for giving his buddy his first toke (inhale) of marijuana, and years
later finds out his buddy is now smoking crack cocaine? All roads
have a beginning.
Instant
gratification is the goal of pot smokers. True accomplishment and
skills learned require breaking through difficulties. Getting through
difficulties and accomplishing goals is happiness.
THE
ROAD TO LOSING
Let's look at who has the most to financially gain from promoting
and marketing marijuana to the current political opinion leaders,
and of course the 8 year olds who visit the marijuana stands and
see others smoking their weed and ask what they are doing? Drug
dealers, pot growers incapable of supporting their habit, criminals,
pimps, pushers, organized crime, drug companies, opium traders,
drug crop land owners are all financially gaining from a product
(marijuana) that has but one true result: oblivion, forgetfulness,
destroyed ambition, apathy, slow death of an entire future generation.
If you agree with soft marijuana laws, then drug pushers produce
more drug addicts because of an expanding market into which they
can push drugs. By hanging out with others who smoked pot, I came
into contact with drugs like LSD, cocaine, speed, ecstasy: Drugs
I would never have heard about or even seen had it not been for
me smoking pot. Through buying seeds from dope promoters, the sellers
in turn gain more acceptance and grow op's supply criminal organizations
with marijuana which often is traded for cocaine. More addicts get
created even if one does not immediately see it happening. When
smoking dope you encourage everyone you come into contact with that
doing dope is OK because you're not dead from it yet. One sets an
example by their own actions and this impression goes along way
in the eyes of a younger person. There is no way an 8 year old is
ready to make informed decisions about drugs or handle the effects
of drugs on his growing body. Eighteen year olds are also impressionable.
Financial profit or oblivion is often the goal of drug pushers and
users. Is the cost to your own future and future generations worth
it?
MARIJUANA
- A FALSE FRIEND
Marijuana is often substituted for actual help. Who would go to
a drug when they felt great? Who would get stupid when being smart
is the only way to win and succeed in a rapidly advancing technological
society? Why would anyone go to a drug when a friend or person could
truly assist with a difficulty in life? Common amongst all of these
scenarios is failed help or no help. This does not mean no help
possible but no help given at the time it was needed and wanted.
Drugs are pushed by those who would assert help was unattainable
or non-existent. Consider what every pot enthusiast, promoter or
pusher communicates by his or her actions every time they promote
marijuana as a solution to a worried mind, guilty conscious, nervous
attitude, angry reaction, or psycho-somatic pressure or pain which
is more tenable when stoned for a few hours. Those promoters who
say it's smoked to have fun or relax have forgotten how to have
fun and relax with out drugs. This is called dependency and sounds
like the beginnings of addiction to me. It's amazing to me that
a marijuana user need to get stoned to have fun or feel excitement
or pleasure. These feelings of excitement and pleasure have become
so identified with being stoned that feeling good reactivates or
triggers the desire to get stoned. Soon the drug user can't think
of having sex or much less a conversation without thinking about
how 'good' it would be to
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smoking marijuana on Cannabis day
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be high right now.
Can't stop thinking about it, all your friends do it, wouldn't think
of going anywhere with out it, can't sleep at night or relax or calm
your mind down on your own? If marijuana were so innocuous why do
its adherents cling to it like a life saver in a choppy sea? That
is marijuana addiction.
The basic principle that the success of the Narconon Program
is based on is that given the right tools, given some caring help,
a person can cure themselves of addiction. More than 75% of the
Narconon students who have finished the program do in fact cure
themselves of their addiction.
Contact
Narconon Vancouver Now!
For Help with any
Drug Addiction,
CALL 604 873-1762
or call free 1-877-977-8338
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