The ‘Mind Free Of Drugs World League’ is a curious ‘organization’ which (if there web site is to be believed) boasts a variety of well known supporters. These include The Dalai Lama, Kofi Annan, Arnold Schwarzenegger and many more who are all considered ‘honorable members’ whether these well know honorable members know that they are actually members or not is another question.

The Mind Free Of Drugs World League was started by Jenishbek Nazaraliev. Nazaraliev has boasted about his own drug rehabilitation program on several occasions stating that his rehabilitation centre has roughly a 90% success rate. What does he believe the secret to his so called success is? While there’s no methadone or needle exchanges at Nazaraliev rehabilitation centre instead the focus is in induced coma through the use of hallucinatory drugs, chants of freeing the devil and a pilgrimage with a rock.

Jenishbek Nazaraliev is currently the leader of the World Federation for Mental Health and is a national coordinator of the Regional Office of the International Council on Drug Addiction and Alcoholism. He claims to have successfully treated 15,000 drug users. According to Nazaraliev “We do not have the moral and humanitarian right to sit idol and watch this poison eradicate our planet”. He has met with the Dalai Lama before where he presented a symbolic stone and discussed plans to ‘erect four spiritual pagodas on Tashtar-Ata.’

He runs the Nazaraliev treatment centre which charges roughly 8500 euro for a 25-30 day rehabilitation course. According to the official web site Nazaraliev promises a complete recovery and if the drug user relapses within the first year he will give them back their money.

One of the core treatments in Nazaraliev’s centre is coma sessions. The coma sessions are induced by a concoction of powerful drugs such as Antropine and other substances to keep the ‘drug user’ in a coma for several hours. This method alarms some experts though due to the side effects generally associated with Antropine such as hallucinations and amnesia. It is kind of ironic that a man who opposes methadone or any form of substitution therapy is willing to inject powerful drugs into drug users in order to induce coma’s.

The pilgrimage generally takes place in a mountain near the rehabilitation center called Tashtar-Ata. The drug user will toss the rock he/she have been carrying over their shoulder and into the pile of other rocks left behind by past pilgrimages. This is to symbolise the drug addiction being tossed away and therefore providing relief. The pilgrimages generally happen after the induced coma, the chanting and the running round a pole.

Nazaraliev though not a support of methadone substitution therapy does seem to support some form of decrim. In one question put to Nazaraliev about the Czechs allowing people to carry 15 grams and a half of gram of heroin. Nazaraliev responded by saying “I hope that Czechoslovakian experience will serve as raw model for other government to reconsider the policies in regards to illegal drug trafficking and its abuse. In my opinion, I think that it is effective!”

The World League itself has big ambitions it’s not going for the general prohibition stance of aiming to reduce drug use no it intends to make the world drug free (including tobacco and alcohol) by 2050 through the ‘three forms of realization’. The world league have obviously not had a realization their own yet though as they have not realise that they have only put two forms of realizations they are:

1)The world league will construct spiritual and architectural complexes around the world dedicated to the victims of drug abuse.

2)The World League aims to organize world campaigns attracting many participants with an aim of developing a ‘world chain reaction’.

Some other goals they have is creation of a world league ‘mind free of drugs’ fund, promotion of the mind free of drugs ideology, promoting the rituals of drug rejection to be performed in historical places and construction of international rehabilitation centres.

As well as these aims they also run another web site where they have competitions for the best drug picture, video or story complete with a rating system so you can rate each image, video etc. The Maya Planet project is a competition which asks viewers of the web site to submit their ‘anti-drug’ media’s the winner of each category wins an IPAD 2, $15,000 and lucky enough to also receive a copy of Jenishbek Nazaraliyev book ("Fatal red poppies”).

The objective of this contest is the “prevention of global drug addiction epidemic" and apparently like the world drug league is supported by lots of politicans such as Julia Gillard, Angela Merkkel and Juan Manuel Santos. The jury who will judges who has the best artwork, 'confessional story' or video are Takako Hotta (a model in Japan), Elena Malysheva (a doctor) and Konstantin Doroshenko (A curator of modern art).

As well as a compeition you can also 'ask the experts' about drug issues. The experts currently comprise of an acupuncturist, yoga instructor, journalist and a few academics. So far none of the experts have answered any question nor does there seem to be an ambundence of questions being asked.

The World League seems to have quite a few famous backers but it is unknown if they have actually endorssed it. Their goals do seem a little over the top and unachievable in particular the notion that all drugs including alchohol can be wiped off the planet by 2050. The truth is many people do indeed suffer due to drugs but they are not going to dissapear anytime soon the best that can be done is mitgating the harm asociated with drugs.