You yourself also see how difficult it is to establish a solemn unity,

 The profile of an average drug user is someone who starts at 19, and the average stopping age is 26.  For most of these twentysomething slackers, their drug experimentation will be limited to smoking marijuana.  And the majority of it is conducted in the home....

The survey shows, in a representative analysis of everyone who has taken drugs, that only 13% thought that they had ever had a drug problem.  In terms of actual numbers, that amounts to a sizeable figure – somewhere around 2 million Britons consider that at some point in their lives they have had a dysfunctional relationship with drugs.  And about half of them still do.  What constitutes a problem will, of course, vary from individual to individual, perhaps from outright dependency down to minor health concerns....

The so-called “war on drugs” has cost America $1 trillion since 1971 and has resulted in 45 million arrests and a 12-fold increase in the number of offenders imprisoned on drug charges.  It’s a much more draconian response to a much larger problem than exists in Britain (where the prison population doubled between 1993 and 2012).  https://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/oct/05/-sp-britain-divided-how-we-really-feel-about-drugs
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Patients in Rhode Island, for instance, may not be denied school enrollment, housing or employment because they are medical marijuana cardholders.

“The issue has only been litigated in some medical marijuana states, so it’s not clear which ones might ultimately be found to protect patients from employment discrimination,” O'Keefe said.  Arizona, Delaware and Minnesota offer the strongest protections for medical marijuana patients, she said, adding that the Colorado Supreme Court’s decision could serve as guidance in other states.   (Colorado law is similar to CA and OR law).

The California Supreme Court ruled in 2008 that employers may fire workers who test positive for marijuana, finding that the state law protections don’t extend to employment.

Leland Berger, an Oregon attorney who helped underwrite that state’s marijuana legalization law, said he and other drafters of the pot measure deliberately left out employment protection for political reasons.  “It never would have passed otherwise,” Berger said.     http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-ff-colorado-high-court-employee-marijuana-20150615-story.html

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"a double-minded man is unstable in all his ways"  --James 1:8         People obsessed with sex, drugs, smoking, debt, dissonant sound, robots everywhere, money, double-mindedness, hypocrisy/compromise/success-at-any-cost, death-worship, security-worship, fear, hate--what does all this mean?  It apparently means there is much collapse of real vision, ethics, education and caring; it means the shallow and double-minded are prevailing over the inherently wholesome; it means we need help.        -r., mt. shasta, ca  

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113.   But the tide (of evolution) will carry away the scum of unstable thoughts.  Participation in planetary tasks is the best tempering of one's sword.    -Morya:  Agni Yoga 1929

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303, 535.  You yourself also see how difficult it is to establish a solemn unity, even as a salutary remedy.  Yet you also see how a great many destructions may be mitigated.  Where there would have been a blow only a slight shock occurs.  But do not rest in the belief of a secure existence.  Everything is unstable; the ladder of Hierarchy alone is firm.... 

It is impossible to know all thoughts, because in the kaleidoscope of human fragmentary thoughts one becomes dizzy, and the mere scraps of unstable thinking are of no use.  But it is useful to sense the motivating cause of each expression.  Such fiery affirmation comes with the kindling of the centers.  Man is beginning to know the purpose of words.         -M:  Fiery World 1933

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549.   It would be beautiful to realize that human thought contains such a powerful substance; still only the most lofty and intensified thought produces an energy that is sufficiently powerful.  But a small thought--unrealized, erratic and unstable--will not give a creative impulse and can even inflict harm.  Lacking the correct coordination of attraction and repulsion, insignificant thoughts form as it were ugly conglomerates and pollute space; we call them spatial slime.  Much energy is wasted in transmuting these stillborn monsters.  One can imagine how greatly spatial production could be increased were it not for these progenies of men.  In this matter let us not accuse only the primitive peoples.  Their thinking is potentially not weak, but the average result of civilization is complete degeneration in quality of thought.  Such degeneration produces the whole store of slimy products which threaten to turn the bliss of agni into odium.  Not rare are the instances of the harm of petty thoughts.  So many of the best channels are clogged by chips only because humanity does not respect thought.                      -M:  Fiery World 1933

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362.  The fiery fluctuation of the cosmic scales (of justice, balance, reality) creates vortexes which are a danger to unstable ones but which uplift to the higher worlds those who are flamingly aspirant.  Amidst the oscillations of the cosmic scales humanity cannot choose a middle path, for only light or darkness will be contending for the victory.  On the path to the fiery world let us keep in mind the cosmic scales.         -Morya:  Fiery World 1935

-Morya, Afra, Amitabha Buddha, Confucius   -in Prayer and Meditation, 1978