? the small town of Cosala, many things, including thievery, were attributed to the vicious consumption and side effects associated with "La Mota" or Marijuana. The word Marijuana was frightening, and we greatly feared people who were accused of being under its evil influence.
I vividly recall how a "crazy" lady was tied to a tree as she screamed expressing strange delusions. We didn't have a hospital for patients with mental illnesses. I was told that she had fallen under the Marijuana spell.
Our town had a swine "flu" epidemic and our local genius, a manic-depressive with acute psychosis, began to wash the banks of the arroyo in his efforts to rid the town of the disease. His madness was attributed to Marijuana.
One afternoon, an enraged and "crazy" soldier ran down our street swinging from side to side (sweeping motion) his rifle with the bayonet attached. We barely made it to safety. Again, it "was due to Marijuana."
By the time I was in high school in the United States, Marijuana represented a frightening drug that should be avoided at all costs. While I was in the Army's boot camp at Fort Lewis, Washington, we were given a weekend off to party. The American Indian got drunk and climbed a pine tree and threatened to jump. We were able to get him down safely. Another drunken soldier kept asking us to break his leg with a bat. He didn't want to go to Vietnam.
That Friday night, Erick and I bought a six-pack of beer and decided to drink it in the barracks away from the drunken soldiers. As soon as we sat down to drink our three beers each, the soldiers began playing Malo's song, Fumando Marijuana (Smoking pot). I became so frightened that I just guzzled 'down' my three beers in order to get the courage to face the expected madness I figured was about to ensue. The soldiers were all "lighting up." They were inhaling pot like hummingbirds without wings. Some guys could inhale so hard and hold it for so long that it surprised me that they didn't turn blue or faint.
Those that smoked pot were nonviolent, calm, and kept saying "peace brother" and acting "groovy" and were harmoniously hugging each other. There was neither madness nor violence.
Later while in college, Roger, a UCLA medical student, now a "lung doctor," invited my friend Jason (now an internist) and me to his house. Roger turned the lights off and we began to drink wine as he played on his fancy stereo system Gustav Holst's The Planets, Mars, the Bringer of War." Roger's wife offered us some of her especially made brownies. Roger kept laughing as he ate the brownies and "downed" them with wine. Those brownies made Jason say: "Hey man, what a trip!" Jason ate like never before (He had the "munchies.")
While running for president, Mr. Bill Clinton, smiling, said that he never smoked pot; for he claimed that "He never inhaled it." Like Nicotine and Caffeine, Marijuana belongs to a group of plant chemicals called alkaloids. Perhaps Mr. Clinton has had "brownies" since he claimed he didn't inhale.
Alcohol and cigarette makers often fund the Drug Abuse Resistance Education (DARE) programs. DARE even claims that "Marijuana Users Face More Problems than Alcohol Drinkers."
What is the real truth? In China 1 million people die annually as a result of cigarettes and half a million die in the United States. In the United States, over 100,000 people die yearly from alcoholism. Constantly drunk drivers kill innocent people. Once drunk, a person doesn't really have the cognitive ability to think rationally.
A DRUG FREE SOCIETY is best for all of us, but it is untenable at present. In no manner do I recommend nor do I promote the use of Marijuana or drugs. We must as a society make it illegal for drug makers to promote controlled drugs on Television like Ambien® and Lunesta®. Drug companies are the ones that lobbied Congress to keep PSEUDOEPHEDRINE legal. This drug is used to manufacture Meth, and I have seen the damage associated with PSEUDOEPHEDRINE. METH IS A POISON THAT HAS RUINED MANY LIVES AND HAS KILLED MANY PEOPLE AND CHILDREN.
Our body can make endogenous opoids (endorphins) through exercise and other activities. Endorphins mediate a "runner's natural high" and they work as our natural "pain killers." A happy child is unlikely to abuse drugs once he becomes an adult. Early education is important. Anxious children need to be carefully guided so once they become adults they don't turn to alcohol or drugs in order to lessen their anxiety and the stressors associated with bad life choices or simply just living.
I derive great joy through my study of medicine and nature. You should know that I have not prescribed a controlled drug for years.
Dr James Monroe
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