Marijuana addiction treatment in Alaska

Marijuana is the most controversial drug as to the danger for dependency, physical health and mental problem. Don't get mislead! Most of the hard drug users have started their addiction with marijuana. Drug rehab centers can be really confusing with all the different programs and philosophies in Alaska. There are different school of thought on marijuana. We will try to teach you what the drug really is. Remember if Marijuana would be so "innocent", you would not be reading this website now. Drug rehabilitation is a process with different phases that will bring the individual to a drug free life. Don't wait. Call one of our counselor today! 1-800-559-9503 Online consultation

Marijuana use in Alaska According to the National Household Survey on Drug Abuse (2000–2001), approximately 1.43% of Alaska residents have dependence on illicit drugs and most of the addicts fall in the age group of 12–25. In a survey conducted among Alaska high school students during 2003, 47.5% admitted using cannabis at least once during their lives and around 13.1% reported using it before age 13. Marijuana is the most abused and widespread illicit substance in Alaska. Local law enforcement authorities can only estimate the extent of marijuana abuse because less than 5% of the cannabis in Alaska is grown outdoors. This makes detection much more harder. Lately, BC Bud marijuana from British Columbia, Canada has begun to make its way to the state along the Transcontinental Highway.

Marijuana info

Cannabis is the most durable of the hemp plants, and it makes the toughest cloth, called `canvass.' (Canvass was widely used as sails in the early shipping industry, as it was the only cloth which would not rot on contact with sea spray.) The cannabis plant also produces three other very important products that the other hemp plants do not (in usable form, that is): seed, pulp, and medicine.

Religious and spiritual use

Cannabis has an ancient history of ritual consumption and is found in pharmacological cults around the globe. Hemp seeds found by archaeologists at Pazyryk suggest early ceremonial practices by the Scythians took place during the 5th to 2nd century BC, confirming previous historical reports by Herodotus. Certain historians and etymologists have claimed that marijuana was used as a religious sacrament by ancient Jews, early Christians and Muslims of the Sufi order. In India and Nepal, it has been consumed by certain of the wandering spiritual sadhus for centuries, and in modern times the Rastafari movement has embraced it. Elders of the modern religious movement known as the Ethiopian Zion Coptic Church consider cannabis to be the eucharist, claiming it as an oral tradition from Ethiopia dating back to the time of Christ. Like the Rastafari, certain modern Gnostic Christian sects have believed that Cannabis is the Tree of Life. Other organized religions discovered in the past century that treat cannabis as a sacrament are the THC Ministry, the Way of Infinite Harmony, Cantheism, the Cannabis Assembly and the Church of cognizance. Numerous people also consider their use of cannabis to be spiritual regardless of organized religion.