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with International Drug Laws
Canadian, OK, June 4 – Drug
laws in continents throughout the world can vary greatly from
one country to the next. It is possible that no single
organization knows this better than the Narconon® Drug
Rehabilitation and Education program.
With its international management
office in Los Angeles, the Narconon program has locations in
35 countries, some of which have high tolerance for open use
of addictive substances and others may be leaning in that
direction.
According to the President of
Narconon International Clark Carr, “We have a program
in Romandie, Switzerland where the government actually offers
heroin addicts ‘safe injection houses’ with free
heroin to people looking to get off the drug. It’s
ridiculous.”
Carr is especially upset because
the Narconon program doesn’t use even substitute drugs
to treat addiction or symptoms and achieves extremely high
results through the application of the rehabilitation
technology developed by L. Ron Hubbard.
Carr goes on to say, “Given
the failure of many traditional treatment methods to produce
sufficient long-term results, many governments have come to
the conclusion that if addiction is an incurable
‘disease’ then it would be better to legalize and
distribute drugs than to incarcerate addicts. There have been
various levels of experimentation with this in Holland,
England, Switzerland, Australia and
Canada.”
Canada has become increasingly
lenient on drug laws, which has created some friction with
the United States recently. Vancouver has a strong political
effort advocating the use of marijuana. “BC Bud”
is a term often used for the potent forms of marijuana
distributed from across the boarder into the United States,
which has the DEA concerned about tighter boarder security,
especially if penalties for possession decrease significantly
in the region.
Tibor Palatinus is the Executive
Director of the Narconon Vancouver education program and has
faced quite an opposition from those who stand to gain
financially from the decriminalization or legalization of
drugs. “There’s pot all over the place,”
comments Tibor, “It’s tough to teach our kids a
healthy way of life when it’s so
prevalent.”
Narconon Arrowhead is the largest
facility in the Narconon network and is also the
international training center, where many representatives
from countries listed above have come to learn effective
rehabilitation methods in hopes to bring solutions back
home.
Luke Catton, the President of
Narconon Arrowhead stated, “We have treatment and law
enforcement professionals come here from numerous countries
on a fairly routine basis for training. Many of them are
encouraged and at the same time confused as to why the United
States is very anti-drug, yet doesn’t embrace
effectiveness over traditionalism.”
Unfortunately, that
traditionalism actually subscribes to the further drugging of
individuals and children that display certain behavioral
characteristics. The direction of those actions is similar to
that of Huxley’s Brave New World.
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