Health Care Reform
and Medical Marijuana - The Black Youth
It is my goal to act as a facilitator and reach out to our
younger generation. I vow to this
today! I am talking about the young men
and women in their late teens, 20's and early 30's. I believe we as a community are weak only because
we are overlooking our younger generation.
We disapprove of their behavior, things like wearing their pants below
their waistline, their use or abusive language in camaraderie, such as the use
of the term nigger (Nigga) and other
things I cannot think of off the top of my head, that are relevant in today's society. We put them down for smoking marijuana,
forgetting all the beer and wine we drank which is medically proven to be much
worst. And the sad thing about this is
they are a generation of the lost tribe, because many of their parents went
AWOL and did not properly raise them or mold them to survive in this unfair and
dangerous world as they themselves fell victimized by the crack epidemic. And today they easily forget, but the
children certainly remember and are acting on it each day.
We unfairly judge them, even though they did not ask to come
to this planet, but out of lust in many cases they were born and you know it.
They were born out of lust and they are still not being shown any love, by
their lustful parents, who are still on their personal agendas. Not realizing they will eventually be our
caretakers and tax payers. Today they
depend on us, but tomorrow we will depend on them. So we will get what we put
into them. Like anything worth having,
you have to work at it diligently.
But are we so selfish and arrogant to not seize the
opportunities and perhaps last hope for our own refuge. Because as sure as time passes by, either you
will get older or die. We cannot do what
we once could do in our youth. And the
youth in our community are not being nurtured to ever be independent and self
sufficient, none the less take care of us.
We are dealing ourselves losing hands, only because we are selfish and
are only thinking of ourselves in the moment.
I think the most significant contemporary issue now faced in
American society is the marijuana dilemma.
We can ignore it and self destruct or become proactive and address
it. If we think marijuana is a problem
drug like the crack our generation abused or the heroin or alcohol the
generation before us abused, we should address it as so. We should not turn our backs on our youth,
but instead we need to mechanize them into becoming a political force that must
be duly recognized by the status quo.
With our leadership it can happen and they can become the leaders of
tomorrow. And trust me, when I say one
day they will be forced to lead ready or not.
Let us hope they are properly prepared by us by our actions.
I believe that health care reform coupled with medical
marijuana legislation, may well solve the problem we are faced with today in
the black community. The problem is that
our youth are self medicating with marijuana to the point of abuse. In many cases this is due to depression as a
result of abuse. Many of the young
adults in the black community had to raised themselves or was abused and
neglected and this is a fact. We leave
in a times whereby unemployment without an unemployment check is reality for
too many people, who have to depend on food stamps to eat. We have a workforce of 62%, only 6 out of 10
people have a job today and the numbers double in the black community. We are living in a times of hopelessness and
despair. When I was growing up times
were no where near as hard as they are today, yet still I went astray. So how can I blame these younger adults for
their actions today. They are being dealt a losing hand to begin with, whereby
I created my losing hand. So who I am to judge their behaviorisms?
Back when I was child, heroin hit the streets hard. And to mitigate their addictions, they were
handed methadone a drug that was even worst.
But it was accepted by society as a treatment for heroin addiction. I say thank the Lord that our biggest problem
with our youth is marijuana. Because when it came to a drug of choice, they are
smarter than the last three generation for alcohol to heroin to crack and now
it is marijuana? Because the good thing
about marijuana is that with the legislation being proposed and already passed
the treatment for this abuse can be the drug itself.
When you understand all the proven good uses that marijuana
has, you will realize that our children stumbled onto something that may be
illegal today, but is good for them in so many other ways. The fact that it is a crime is the main
problem and not the drug itself. And
with health care reform, they will be able to get it for free, which will
eliminate a lot of street crimes, because they will not have to break the laws
to get their drug of choice.
And if it is prescribe because of mental problems such as
insomnia, depression or even substance abuse, because people do abuse
prescription drugs, it can be dealt with as so, under the new health care
reform bill known as Obama-Care. This
will put an end to a lot of the crimes being committed in the black communities
across the country and Florida
But we must be proactive because many states are opting out
of health care reform to include Florida
Anyone against legalized marijuana for medical uses and
health care reform, hates our black youth and wants to destroy them to kill us
all off. Therefore any black man or woman
in his/her 40's, 50's, 60's and 70's which is the main voting block in the
black community, are self destructive fools.
Wakeup to our children's dream, because they had a dream too. Help them realize it!
Frank Paul Jones
President and Chairman of the NCNCHINC
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