Wheelbarrows

Let’s be clear, everybody, and we do mean every single person on the planet, starts out life as a kind of ‘wheelbarrow’. Now wheelbarrows are empty and powerless vessels that are filled by someone else and pushed by someone else. This is not a bad thing, it’s a design factor. Humans, like no other creature, are created with very little ‘pre-loaded’ stuff – What we do have is an incredible faculty and capacity to learn and learn big!

However, as this is done over a long period of time and only done in connection, in relationship, to other human-beings, how you develop and grow heavily depends on who or what is filling you and pushing you and why.

Up until you hit puberty, you’re set up to learn by that input and instruction. Once you hit puberty, your learning, your input and what you let direct you begins to be determined more by you…. Ah, but how you were prepared (or not) for that stage is a huge factor in you making smarter, wiser, safer, and sound developmental choices. So, the question is, who or what is influencing you and is it the best? (Click here for more)

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Big Tobaccos Playbook for Marketing to the Young: Campaign for Tobacco Free KidsTobacco companies are deploying a suite of tactics to reach young people and create an immersive, “surround sound” marketing effect on social media... For nearly 75 years, tobacco companies have understood the importance of influencer marketing. In 1949, Philip Morris outlined its marketing strategy for college students stating that they needed to: “‘get ‘em’ young, train ‘em right’ ” recognizing that college students “are widely copied by others. They set styles…[and] because they’re young and if we sell them, we have customers for a long time. ”

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The length of stay in intensive care varies greatly, from a few days up to a month. When taken home, for several months these babies may still experience signs of withdrawal.

This baby had tense and clenched muscles. She could not organise a suck pattern to feed effectively and required a feeding tube, and she would tremor and jerk so much she rubbed her chin raw on her blankets.

The nurses would take turns swaying and rocking with her for hours. This baby was medicated with morphine and gas drops, and was tried on multiple different formulas to help try to soothe her and settle her reflux.

Often it is the case that mothers with drug dependence really want to get off drugs and care for their baby. They love their children, but the truth is that their addiction has a strong hold on them. (for complete article https://newsweekly.com.au/newsweekly/addictions-littlest-victims/)

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Details: Published: 27 September 2023; Hits: 1338

“Decriminalisation creates too many practical difficulties for police officers to implement policy, and there are inadequately designed and resourced diversionary programs. At this stage, we do not believe a threshold has been met whereby community members can be kept safe through a process of decriminalising or legalising illicit ‘hard’ drugs including amphetamines, heroin, cocaine and MDMA. Hard drugs cause enormous amounts of harm to society, and the PANSW believes any more to make them easier to use will create further problems.” Police Association of NSW

(Source: ‘Portuguese warning on legalising drugs’ – The Australian September 27^th, 2023)

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Drug Decriminalising – Playing this Game has Huge Ramifications for everyone, not least our communities most vulnerable, our kids.

ACT to become a ‘Fantasyland’ of Drugs! ACT chief police officer and Australian Federal Police deputy commissioner Neil Gaughan said he expects herds of revellers to head to Canberra when drug laws are relaxed on October 28…'It would be naïve not to think people won't come down, even for a weekend, to get on the coke and not worry about the cops,' deputy commissioner Gaughanm said

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It may just be in time but I sense the 50-year campaign to legalise drugs is at last running into the trouble it has deserved from the start.

The supposed Portuguese drugs miracle – in which giving up enforcing the law was supposedly followed by peace, love and joy – has ended, as it was bound to do, in squalor, crime and fear. And the endlessly praised Amsterdam dope experiment, in letting rip despite the law, has been rejected with disgust and regret by many of the people who live there. (For more go to Addiction Explodes and Pro-drug Policies Proved Wrong)

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