they can persuade others to share their world we have heard many stories about two or three months clean almost out of jail users that are cured but i would like to see hear from users claim ten years or more as i would believe those stories speak to the problem of brill recovery better than some short term recovery confession as this might just be a way of getting out of jail anyone who will take a fourteen year old girl and teach them to use needles needs to be in jail and when you send their children to school to sell their home cooked meth to students needs to be in jail anyone who manufactures any quantity of this substance needs to go to jail punishment must fit the crime and this crime against us is serious a lot of focus is being done on the poor user who needs treatment it is true that many users who hit rock bottom and see a light to recover need a helping hand but i do not believe that users who will tell you anything you want to hear to avoid conflict or jail but turn right around and use are subjects for sympathy my advice to users on up to what you are and if you make the decision to stop and seek treatment and make a real effort without being pressured into it from the legal side be your own method please if you really want to quit then disassociate yourself from all those so called friends who use with you if this means moving to another town and starting over and doing your life is what you make of it and it's never too late to stop if you rob cheat steal and lie to support your habit don't just blame it on the drug your character is what you your own decisions more so make a new decision and take that step back to sanity my drug of choice might methamphetamines but i've been there and come back i just look like i stayed there yes it's been twenty years clean and sober well actually it's thirty i'm not an addict i was what can be done you ask everyone knows the problems to solutions that are needed and here are a couple of ideas neighborhood watches townhall meetings communications between public and law enforcement like to tip line five three zero two six five four one seven eight education explain just how bad meth ruins the lives of users and all people they contact quit sending mixed messages by being half drunk and smoking a cigarette while telling someone to stop taking other drugs substance abuse can also include marijuana smoking out smoking alcohol prescription drugs designer drugs coke or one except for some drugs effects are not is a big issue but the association an access to harder drugs by the interaction with the dealers and in peer pressure has treatment let  users know that we will help them revive their lives with programs and community support with options to help them cope with fighting addiction if they are really ready to make an effort to stop sometimes it's hard for users to understand that they have a disease and need treatment families with two or three generation problems of substance abuse need to seek help especially to not let the youngest generation follow in the same footsteps as the older one strong message  all manufacturers and dealers of this death we are going to take it anymore and check out talk done to slash crime watch on the web we need our youth to help us communicate with us to ignor you strongly believe in fact in any type of substance in excess can be busy and you have forgotten what those joys are then go to the nearest garden and smell the roses god really does have a plan life can be hella good and prop thirty six a road to recovery nobody can just agree that methamphetamines is the worst drug abuse din our society the old solution was to lock everyone up but after a few decades of building more jails and filling them with drug addicts we begin to wonder is there another way people went to jail and did their time and then fell back in the same patterns of drug use only to be arrested again and again this is called recidivism law enforcement has had an unfortunate job of spending a very high percentage of their time dealing with minor drug offenses people who have addictions need more than just incarceration to solve their problems they need recovery to be shown a way to return to society some drug users are robbers and burglars and have other problems besides drug addiction these individuals end up being locked up for the other types of criminal charges other users are your next door neighbor the guy working at the gas station the girl doing your hair at a salon or kids working at a fast food restaurant these are not career criminals and this is where the big problem lies if you take an everyday person with a drug use problem and lock them up with common criminals they're introduced to a career criminals if you take a drug user and introduce them to a program to treat their addiction he could possibly cure it the former drug user could return back into society as a functional person prop thirty six is one who had a good program in nevada county called project jumpstart thanks to bill mcnamara one of the reason was successful was that an mates who entered the program were released into recovery programs in other counties most of them stayed in their new locations after their completion to avoid the old associations they had when they were on drugs in nevada county some people think marijuana is to get way to the drug underworld and if there and they're right we made it illegal and put it in a class with all the other street drugs and then maybe made movies like reefer madness to spread lies about what it is what it does and how your life would be ruined by it the problem is marijuana is a plant that does have some additional value and even if it's only to give cancer patients an appetite if marijuana had always been a prescription herb the regulations by the government people would go to legal drug dealers to doctors and not end up on the street with the street dealers who might eventually introduce them to harder drugs such as cocaine heroin and meth it's a pharmaceutical companies regulated marijuana and produced enough so the price was regulated at a low cost then it would take a big bite out of crime drugs are big business worldwide and if all small smuggling and drug operations were stopped what would the task force do sometimes i think keeping things the same as before is really just some sort of job security to take it one step further if you legalize all street drugs made them class three drugs had the pharmaceutical companies manufacture them impose life taxes on them you take the cartels out of the drug business you could also funnel these taxes collected into recovery programs and toys education society on effects of drug addiction our society since too many conflicting messages to the next generation we have drugstores over the counter legal drugs like beer and wine and cigarettes so why not smoke but we should put some teeth in prop thirty six last was added to it have done some of that but we need more to return to the stone age of catch hold and jail and release is not good it's not a good idea support prop thirty six and recovery support drug education for pre teens of forty assets program being introduced by the nevada county substance abuse advisory board thank you