There’s an incredible amount of things you could become addicted to; the list seems to never end. Some of these addictions, or dependencies, include; heroin, crack, sex, gambling, pharmaceutical pills, body building, diet coke, and even drunk driving. All of these are as bad as the other, and all are nearly, if not totally, unconquerable with will power alone. When an individual wants to sober up and end a dependency on a substance, he or she needs some sort of help. When someone wants to end a heroin addiction, they are usually given another drug called methadone to fill the receptors in the brain, in effect this curtails the cravings for a heroin “fix”. Although methadone is much weaker than heroin, an individual can still get the same effects if increased doses are consumed. A documentary called “methadonia” shows how easily methadone is legally obtained; and how easily addicts can  up their doses anywhere from 300, to 600 mg, sometimes more. There’s alot of medication that helps stop dependencies, some work better than others, and some have unwanted side effects.

Dennis Peron is a Cannabis activist as well as a gay-activist, who testified first hand at Oaksterdam University, that cannabis had helped him stop  binge drinking. He said himself that he was a serious alcoholic and if it weren’t for cannabis he would most likely still be dependent on alcohol. You might say that all he did was trade one addiction for another, however he is now a productive citizen of the United States that runs a hostel hear in San Francisco. Cannabis is a “miracle drug” and can help an array of problems, wether it be physical, emotional, or even financially; and hopefully we will be able to make it available to those who need it most.