Enough is truly, enough.

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If you become aware of the lies published about various foods and drugs by authority it could easily become a lifetime obsession and it does for many hyperconsumers.

Humans learn by example and repetition. Learn a phrase, What did you do? It is the same with any human behaviour and the older the behaviour, the more ingrained and welded to the self it becomes.

It seems logical enough that we are products of our parents, their example and tendancies. We lose that faith suddenly with the sudden realisation that life presents choices, not conclusions.

It goes without saying that repeated exposures to any addiction stokes fires which may be better excited by constructive activity. The earlier the repeated exposures are clustered, the larger part of the sum of experience it occupies.

It figures an unsurmountable barrier exists between our self revelation and our original sources of fear.

News that cannibis use from a young age could induce habits that are hard to break or are turned to in times of stress is half of the picture. Why the children are fed drugs is a major clue to the other side of what went wrong here.

Abuse crimes against minors create over stressed lives as adulthood surges into focus and post stress trauma becomes the all-consuming purpose of life.

And at the end of a particularly difficult day when everything went appaulingly wrong, hands up those who never reach for any remedy? It is usually a form of alcohol. But then most of us spin back into control as that is what we learned when we were very young and distressed, our mothers comforted us. If we had a twin, we were lucky enough to face a direct reflection or alternative example of how it could be. We can read "When good twins go bad" ... as a tendency toward amplification that is a logical psychological feature of twinhood, falling into dangerous territory.

Early use of drugs may result from peer pressure, family, or it may be part of a sinister relationship with an older party. It is concommitant with the early use of drugs that other factors are taking place.

This does not say that can not have the odd glass of wine or spliff without ruining their children's chances. It is to understand the importance of encouraging the child with an inclusive love, a family goal and bonds of trust.

A lack of love in the home is as intrumental to the bastard selling your child drugs, as the money which your child stole from you to pay.

Of course children should not be encouraged to do drugs, alcohol or tobacco. Neither should they be encouraged to eat unhealthy food, take unneccessary risks that may result in bodily damage or injury, allow too much stress in their lives, suffer from violence or abuse, or lose a parent. All will increase the risk of drinking and drug abuse later in life.

All can result in bad gambits in life. That is the real problem. It comes down to a strategy.

Saying that early Marijuana use or exposures result in later drug abuse is a bit like saying the consumption of chocolate as a child can lead to its abuse later. Of course it does.