China Bans Drug-Using Actors From TV And Film

President Xi Jingping has cracked down hard against illegal drugs in recent months

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By McCarton Ackerman

10/13/14

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China is continuing its widespread crackdown on drug use by targeting the country’s film and television industry, banning movies and TV shows featuring actors who have reportedly used illegal substances.

The new regulations made by the socialist country stem from President Xi Jingping’s order last June to “strike hard” against illegal drugs. Government officials have claimed that the drug use of some Chinese celebrities creating a “detrimental influence on the development of young people” which has “corrupted the social atmosphere.” Forty performing arts organizations throughout Beijing have since signed agreements with municipal police to not hire any performers “involved with drugs.”

Nine celebrities were detained for various drug offenses earlier this year, including reality TV star Li Daimo, who was sentenced to nine months in prison for reportedly hosting crystal meth parties at his apartment. Actor Gao Hu was detained earlier this month for possession of marijuana and methamphetamines, while Jackie Chan’s son, Jaycee, was arrested last month after he was found smoking marijuana in his Beijing apartment and allegedly using his home as a “shelter” for others to do drugs.

Administrative detention for a maximum of 15 days is the standard sentence for first-time offenders. However, those who are deemed addicts by police can then be forced to undergo compulsory rehab for up to three years. The conditions in these compulsory treatment centers have been reported as being worse than prison; a Health and Human Rights investigation from last year found that people were routinely subject to “torture and cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment” that included forced labor, beatings, and solitary confinement.

It’s unclear how many Chinese citizens are in these facilities, but nearly 400,000 people weresentenced for drug offenses in the first months of this year. Approximately 9,000 of those people were sentenced to either death or at least five years behind bars.

Was Adolf Hitler High on Crystal Meth During World War II?

Hitler with morphine addict Hermann Goering. 

As compiled by American intelligence officials, a World War II dossier has revealed that Adolph Hitler regularly took powerful injections of crystal methamphetamine. Beyond the abuse of the illegal stimulant, the 47-page account counted an additional 74 different medications taken by the Nazi dictator. The report has been exposed in a Channel 4 British documentary called Hitler’s Hidden Drug Habit that will air this Sunday October 19th.

Although the intelligence records laid bare the history of Hitler’s extensive drug abuse, they also dispelled the enduring myth that the dictator only had one testicle. The famous singsong joke, “Hitler has only got one ball – the other is in the Albert Hall” was a widespread British morale-booster during the Second World War. The report of Hitler not being a monorchid, the medical term for being born with one testicle, is based on interviews with Hitler’s physician Dr. Theodor Morell. An entry from November 1945 based on Dr. Morell’s medical records said: “His sexual organs showed no indication of abnormality.”

According to the documentary, it is believed that Hitler took crystal meth before meeting with Italian leader Benito Mussolini in the summer of 1943. Before Hitler left to confront Italy's declining dictator, Dr. Morell wrote in his diary: “Fuehrer…Looking very pale and exceptionally jumpy: facing a vital conference with the Duce in Italy tomorrow.” During that notorious meeting, a sickly and stressed-out Fuhrer, high on crystal meth, is reported to have ranted and raved for two straight hours at his distressed Fascist ally.

Known as "Reichsmaster of injections" by the Nazis, Dr. Morell prescribed Hitler a motley array of prescription drugs. Despite complaints from his inner circle, Hitler made Dr. Morell his personal physician. It is believed the methamphetamine Hitler abused might have contributed to negative impressions of the Fuhrer by his top generals as the war progressed. One of those generals, Heinz Guderian, described the Fuhrer’s amphetamine-like side effects when he wrote that, “It was no longer his left hand but the whole of his left side of his body that trembled...He walked awkwardly, stooped more than ever and his gestures were both jerky and slow.” 

An excessive hypochondriac, Hitler reportedly received nine injections of a drug called Vitamultin that contained methamphetamine during his final days in his Berlin bunker. Dr. Morell also gave Hitler barbiturate tranquilizers for insomnia, morphine for headaches, and bulls’ semen to boost his testosterone and sexual performance. Bill Panagopoulos, an American collector who discovered the dossier, clearly stated, “Morell was a quack and a fraud and a snake oil salesman…He should not have been practicing medicine anywhere outside a veterinary clinic.”

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“Lab Rat” Campaign Warning Teens About Marijuana Use Gets Mixed Reviews

/BY JOIN TOGETHER STAFF

October 9th, 2014/

A campaign to warn young people about the dangers of marijuana, which likens those who use the drug to laboratory animals, is getting mixed reviews, according to The Wall Street Journal.

The “Don’t Be A Lab Rat” campaign, launched in August, includes three human-size cages with signs such as, “Does Marijuana really cause schizophrenia in teenagers? Smoke and find out.” Another sign says, “Subjects needed. Must be a teenager. Must smoke weed. Must have 8 IQ points to spare.” The campaign also includes ads on television, online and in movie theaters.

Some young people dismiss the campaign as a scare tactic, and the effort has been mocked by the legal marijuana industry, the article notes. U.S. Representative Jared Polis of Boulder called the campaign “bizarre.” Officials in Boulder declined an offer from the state to erect a cage, saying community members did not think it was an appropriate way to deliver marijuana education.

Boulder’s school district also declined the offer of a cage. “There is some communication in the campaign about possible medical effects, and the reality is that there is a lot of research to be done,” said Bruce Messinger, Boulder Valley School District Superintendent. “We like to deal with what we know to be true.”

Larry Wolk, Chief Medical Officer and Executive Director of the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, said the campaign is having the intended effect of starting a conversation about marijuana’s effects. “Whether you hate it or love it, or are somewhere in between, at least you have people talking about it,” he said.

California Task Force to Combat Spread of Methamphetamine

/BY JOIN TOGETHER STAFF

October 9th, 2014/

A new task force based in Los Angeles will fight the spread of methamphetamine, California Attorney General Kamala D. Harris announced this week. Authorities say 70 percent of meth enters the United States through San Diego.

Six agents will investigate illegal activities involving the manufacture and distribution of meth, the Los Angeles Times reports.

“Transnational criminal organizations have made California the largest point of entry for methamphetamine into the United States,” Harris said in a statement. In March, Harrisissued a report that called the trafficking of methamphetamine a growing threat to the state and a top priority for law enforcement. The report included recommendations, such as increased funding for state anti-narcotics trafficking task forces, and additional coordination between federal, state and local law enforcement agencies in combating transnational criminal organizations.

According to the report, in 2013, border authorities seized over 6,200 kilograms of methamphetamine entering California, a three-fold increase since 2009.

October 12 Chp 42 TWELVE STEPPING WITH STRENGTH FROM THE PSALMS

Day and night I have only tears for food ,while my enemies continually taunt me , saying "Where is this God of yours ? " 

( Gods Big Book NLT)

STEP 2 - Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.

Society is trying to convince you cant beat addiction ! Society is also trying to convince you there is no God ! The wind does not exist either , just because we cant see it that does not mean it is not there. When your tears become a daily meal , that means your ready to let go of this worlds way of thinking and doing things . Your stuck and addicted because society tells you their is something wrong with and you , because of your self made disease that you feed on the regular . If you want to stop eating your tears you gotta change your mind but in order to do that your gonna need help . God says there is nothing wrong with you because of your addictions . His Big Book tells you that you are human and we all make mistakes and its ok . He is a loving father and you are His precious child a special treasure. Give the worlds way of thinking to him then commit step three , ask Him to dry your tears and help you live and love this life again. He Can and He Will ! 

Romans 8:37-39 - No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord. ( Gods Big Book NLT)

By Joseph Dickerson