Narconon Drug Recovery Centers Work Tirelessly to Counter Efforts of Drug Cartels
But no matter the size of drug seizures, interdiction will never replace drug rehabilitation and education as the spearpoint of demand reduction.
LOS ANGELES, CA, November 06, 2010
In the early morning hours on the 17th of October, federal police in Tijuana decided to stop a convoy of three tractor-trailers and one smaller truck traveling through Centenario, a district in Western Tijuana. The inspection turned up a marijuana shipment. The shippers opened fire on the federal police. When the dust settled and two more raids had been carried out, 150 tons of marijuana had been seized. It is the biggest haul ever of illicit drugs, most certainly destined for transfer into the U.S.That's enough marijuana to roll more than 190 million joints, worth somewhere in the neighborhood of $400 million. The marijuana was burned in a public ceremony three days later.
Marijuana is still a very big business. A good, money-making business for the likes of the three cartels operating in the northern Baja California peninsula, said to have recently formed an alliance instead of fighting over turf.
"This huge quantity of drugs headed into our country makes it all too obvious that the problem must be fought from both the supply side and the demand side," stated Clark Carr, president Narconon International. "The government can fight supply all it wants, but those in this country who are addicted to drugs will find a way to get their next fix of heroin, cocaine or marijuana. And yes, based on the number of people who come to Narconon to overcome a marijuana addiction, marijuana is addictive."
Across the nation, millions of people live productive, sober lifestyles until they come in contact with the drug pusher that works at the desk next to them, who just moved into their neighborhood, or who is in their class at school. Those small, supposedly inconsequential "deals" amount eventually to sums of money that are subverting whole countries. Thoughtless of the lives being ruined, the cartels and their representatives on the street rake in their profits and condemn millions to the loss and pain of addiction and even death due to overdoses.
In Narconon drug and alcohol rehabilitation centers across the country, those addicted to alcohol, methamphetamine, prescription or other drugs use the eight-step Narconon drug treatment program to claim their lives back from the cartels. With seven out of ten Narconon program graduates remaining clean and sober and with more than 30,000 graduates from the 140 Narconon drug treatment or education centers around the world, that's a lot of people who are no longer customers of the cartels.
"Every person deserves a chance to grow up and live drug-free," added Mr. Carr. "But the cartels do their best to take this chance away. We help give life back to people every day, in every Narconon drug and alcohol rehabilitation center."
For more information on Narconon drug recovery centers around the world, visit www.narconon-news.org.