https://paulgoree.wordpress.com/2014/06/11/r-e-d-u-reverse-the-environment-of-drugs-and-you-work-in-progress/
R.E.D.U is the acronym for Reverse Environment Drugs and You. It in part is a testimonial of my life of drug usage, which awkwardly began in 1992. Ambitious and unknowledgeable, I was attending Seattle Community College. My goal was to obtain my A.A. and a Q.C.D.C which today are titled CAADAC & NAADAC. Having never used drugs, I found it difficult to counsel others on the matter. However I quickly learned that counseling was not an personal advice effort. But was depended and structured around a practical formula. I unwittingly asked the instructor, “How can I counsel someone on marijuana use, when I have never used marijuana?” I was immediately reminded of the technique we were reviewing in another class on counseling. Well that explanation was enough for me, and so I decided, that we live and learn. And from that day forward, I set out to try all the drugs on the National Institute of Drug, drug chart. The chart consist of the following categories: Prescription Medication, Other Compounds (ex: anabolic steroids), Hallucinogens, Dissociative Drugs (ex: Ketamine), Club Drugs (ex: MDMA), Stimulants, Opioids, Cannabinoids, Alcohol and Tobacco.
From 1992 till 2011, I accomplished my imprudent goal. Today I look back at that self-challenge and am thankful to faith (Yes, I always prayed to GOD to see me through the madness I had positioned myself). I am also thankful to the various instructors, users, and theories regarding drug usage. When I was 18 I sign petition and later voted for ballot measure Assigned Number 692- Sponsors Karen Pehoushek and Mr. Robert Killian- The petition secured 260,335 signatures. The petition was found to have sufficient valid signatures, and appeared on the Nov. 3, 1998, General Election Ballot in the state of Washington. (WOW look at Washington State today 2015-Liberty does work and the people have spoken!! update: 3/23/2015)
NOW from another prospective, I have been interested in Drug Dealer Liability since 2002, here is some interesting facts and explanation of the program...
DRUG DEALER LIABILITY ACT
Overview of the Model Drug Dealer Liability Act:
Legislatures across the nation are passing a unique new statute
that provides redress for those injured by illegal drugs. This new law, known
as the Model Drug Dealer Liability Act (DDLA), makes drug dealers civilly
liable to those injured by a driver under the influence of drugs, families who
lose a child to illegal drugs and others injured by illegal drugs. It is
essentially a products liability act for illegal drugs.
Michigan, Oklahoma, Illinois, Hawaii, Arkansas, California, South
Dakota, Utah, Georgia, Indiana, Louisiana, Colorado, South Carolina, the
U.S. Virgin Islands, New Hampshire, Tennessee and New York have passed the
Model Drug Dealer Liability Act. Existing law in the remaining states does not
clearly establish a means by which drug dealers can be made to pay damages for
the injuries they cause. The Drug Dealer Liability Act fills that void. The
first lawsuit brought under the Act resulted in a judgment on July 21, 1995 of
$1 million in favor of a drug baby and more than $7 million to the city of
Detroit’s expenses for providing drug treatment to inmates in Detroit jails.
Two Detroit dealers were ordered to pay the damages to the drug baby’s siblings
because the baby was born addicted to cocaine and was later bludgeoned to death
by her mother while high on drugs. In Utah, the wife of a drug-using
professional brought a Drug Dealer Liability Act case against her husband’s
dealer of six years. The defendant in that case settled after losing his
pretrial challenges to the Drug Dealer Liability Act. In South Dakota in April
2000 a jury returned a verdict under South Dakota’s Drug Dealer Liability Act
in the amount of $268 Million in favor of a woman whose husband was killed in a
head on collision with a driver under the influence of drugs. The defendant was
not the driver of the car but the dealer who supplied drugs to the driver.
States that have adopted the Model Drug Dealer
Liability Act:
The following states have adopted the Model Drug Dealer Liability
Act:
Arkansas - Drug Dealer Liability Act, 1995 Ark.
Acts No. 896 (codified at Ark. Code Ann. '' 16-124-101 to -112 (Michie Supp.
1997)).
California - Drug Dealer Liability Act,
1996 Cal. Legis. Serv. 3792 (West) (codified at Cal. Health & Safety Code
'' 11700 to 11717 (West Supp. 1998)).
Colorado - Colo. Rev. Stat. 13-21-801 to 813.
Georgia - Drug Dealer Liability Act, 1997 Ga.
Laws 387 (codified at O.C.G.A. ' 51-1-46 (Supp. 1998)).
Hawaii - Drug Dealer Liability Act, 1995 Haw.
Sess. Laws ch. 203 (codified at Haw. Rev. Stat. Ann. ' 663D (Michie Supp.
1997)).
Illinois - Drug Dealer Liability Act, 1995 Ill.
Leg. Serv. 89-293 (West) (codified at 740 ILL. COMP. STAT. ANN. 57/1-25 (West
Supp. 1997)).
Indiana - Drug Dealer Liability Act, 1997 Ind.
Acts 2924 (codified at Ind. Code Ann. ' 34-1-70 (Michie Supp. 1998) (repealed
by 1998 Ind. Acts. 8 (effective July 1, 1998)); Reenacted by by P.L.1-1998,
SEC.19 (codified at Ind. Code Ann. 34-24-4-1 to 14).
Louisiana - Louisiana Drug Dealer
Liability Act, 1997 La. Sess. Law Serv. 719 (West) (codified at La.
Rev. Stat. Ann. '' 9:2800.61-.76 (West Supp. 1998)).
Michigan - Drug Dealer Liability Act, 1994 Mich.
Legis. Serv. 27 (West) (codified at Mich. Comp. Laws Ann. '' 691.1601-.1619
(West Supp. 1998)).
New Hampshire - Chapter 318-C:1, et seq.
(2005).
New Jersey - Drug Dealer Liability Act,
2001, N.J.S.A. Title 2C. Chapter 35B §§1-15.
New York - Drug Dealer Liability Act, Gen.
Oblig. Sec. 12-101 et seq.
Oklahoma - Drug Dealer Liability Act, 1994 Okla.
Sess. Law Serv. ch. 179 (West) (codified at Okla. Stat. Ann. tit. 63, '' 2-421
to -435 (West 1997)).
South Carolina - S. Carolina Stat. 44-54-10 to 140.
South Dakota - South Dakota Codified Laws Sec. 34-20
C-1 et seq.
Tennessee - TCA 29-38-101 et seq.
[2005, ch. 77].
Utah - Drug Dealer's Liability Act, 1997 Utah Laws 1991 (codified
at Utah Code Ann. 58-37e-1 to -14 (Supp. 1998)).
U.S. Virgin Islands - 19 V.I.C. 641 to
658
Copyright © 2010 Daniel Bent. All rights
reserved.
