Serenity Now...NIMBY

I'm sure you all remember the Seinfeld episode with "Serenity Now". But here in Lake Arrowhead, the calls of Serenity are being answered with "Not In My Back Yard". The Serenity Lodge is one of several drug rehab houses that have popped up around the Lake Arrowhead area, and Serenity has also recently acquired one of the many local camps.

All of these drug rehab facilities have sparked quite a bit of controversy in our lovely mountain community. Cries that these facilities will drag down property values, and bring unsavory types to our mountain.

Well, I have news for some of my fellow mountain folk. The unsavory types are already here. In case you didn't know folks, drug use in the mountain is rampant. This of course leads to the need for rehab houses. Maybe if you took more time to check up on what your kids are doing, they wouldn't end up needing rehab. I'm sorry if I'm being blunt and stepping on toes, but the general mind set all over this mountain seems to be to let your kids do what they want. Let them smoke a little weed, no problem. Let them have a keg party for prom night, no problem. Oh,so they stepped it up from alcohol and pot to X, no problem. So someone wants to open a "medical marijuana" clinic, no problem. But God forbid we put a drug rehab facility here, it might bring in drug addicts to our mountain. GET A CLUE PEOPLE, the drug addicts are your kids!!

At least the people in the treatment houses are trying to do something about their problem. Let's try and close down Budmart before we try and drive Serenity from our mountain.
SERENITY NOW!!!