According to the National Institute of Drug Abuse overdose deaths are on the rise:
How the US Stopped a Possible Solution to the Heroin Epidemic https://t.co/k9PSxAIv8T
“Before America’s War on Drugs, the “British System†was successful in keeping addiction rates low and drug-associated crime nonexistent.â€
… “The practice of prescribing heroin to manage addiction was originally invented in the UK—and was so entrenched here that it was formally known in international policy circles as the “British System”. Throughout the early 20th century, as America began forcing its War on Drugs on the rest of the world, it was Britain that represented the most promising alternative model. The story of the British System, and of how it was dismantled under American pressure, has been all but forgotten. It shouldn’t be. This story illuminates not only fascinating truths about drug policy, but about entire liberal traditions in British political history.†…
“The other crucial difference between life under the British System and American-style prohibition is that there was absolutely no link between addiction and other forms of criminality. When you get your prescription from a doctor, there is simply no need to steal to fund your habit.â€
“When the American journalist Edgar May came over to report on the British System he wrote, “No one in England—from the toughest London detective to the most liberal-prescribing clinic physician—suggested to me that narcotics addiction increases criminal behavior… in England there is no cause-and-effect relationship.†The creation of a criminal addict underclass seems to only emerge under a system of drugs prohibition.â€
“By 1959, the number of known heroin addicts in Britain had dropped to 59, before rising to 342 by 1964. By today’s standards these numbers are almost comically low. On all evidence, the British System seemed effective in preventing the spread of addiction and associated criminality. So what happened? How did it all fall apart?â€
“Ultimately, the answer is that, in 1961, Britain was pressured into signing the UN Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs—a US-led policy formally committing every member state to prohibition. The American architects of the War on Drugs despised the British System, and constantly briefed against it in policy documents and propaganda. It was thus inevitable that the British System would come under sustained diplomatic attack.â€
… “Unfortunately, this is exactly what happened. Instead of fixing the problem of rogue doctors over-prescribing, the government pressured doctors doing valuable work. Addicts could no longer get prescriptions, so illegal heroin began trickling into the country to satisfy demand. Unlike America, this did not come from Italian mafia organizations, but from Chinese Triads working out of Hong Kong. Little red packets of south-east Asian heroin, stamped with an elephant design, began littering the gutters of Gerrard Street in London’s Chinatown.†…
The drug war pushed by America has been the source of a rich and lucrative black market.
The Dea and the controlled substances act has given the US a rising statistic of death that began again recently as doctors prescribing habits of opiates were curtailed by the DEA.
The death and destruction of human life in America can be stopped by ending the drug war and ridding ourselves of the controlled substances act.
Excellent piece, TC.
One only need to look at the numbers that they DON’T mention to get a clear idea of what’s really going on. Overdose deaths are at an all time high…and they leave it at that while blaming doctors prescribing habits and Purdue’s marketing. But the rest of the story is here:
Deaths are up, but actual prescriptions for pain are DOWN….they’ve been falling for about ten years
https://www.cdc.gov/vitalsigns/opioids/index.html
And deaths attributable to pain pills is down.
https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2017/4/1/15115380/prescription-painkiller-heroin-deaths
Yet the number of overdose deaths continue their rise. To find what’s driving this one need only look at a map of where the deaths are occurring, and compare that with a map of the places where Fentanyl and it’s analogs have appeared in the illegal opioid supply. They are too identical to ignore.
It is, as always, prohibition that is killing people. The numbers tell the story….but you need all the numbers, not just the ones they show you.
Thank you darkcycle!
The US may solve its opioid problem, but there’s no evidence the federal government will be of much help.
A populist approach can provide viable options for opioid remediation. An example of a populist solution would be one that replaces opioids with cannabis where appropriate. Other solutions exist, but the ideas face the same type of steep opposition from the feds.
Opioid addictions and ODs are the new canary in the gold mine. They are correlated with spiking numbers of suicides, another type of warning ignored by the feds. The bulk of the ODs are happening in economically distressed or socially deprived parts of the United States, largely in the rural hinterlands.
Financial stress in remote rural areas is often a consequence of being overtaken by Big Ag. When it happens, profits from farming shift from growing food to showering wealth on companies that process food and make it available in supermarkets. The federal government approves of such shifts in economy, as it has since the country was founded. Its history can be found in Max Weber’s classic book, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (1905).
The approach taken by feds regarding opiates and the poor feeds on the spirit of capitalism and the Protestant work ethic. Federal treatment of the economically stressed, or the drug addict, is largely Malthusian, a political theory that assumes one’s moral character is somehow wrapped around one’s economic or health status. Here is Thomas Malthus (1766—1834) dictating the spirit of capitalism:
In Flint, Michigan, lead plumbing works as well as opiates on the poor.
Thomas Malthus believed saving the poor would only increase their numbers. He might have had the same attitude toward poor people with opioid problems had he lived to witness it. For Malthus, the poor and the infirm deserved their ill fate. The Poor Law Amendment in the UK was Malthus’ sine qua non:
Malthus’ belief, that it was the fault of one’s own moral character that one was poor, is roughly the same attitude the federal government has toward people with drug addictions. Another example of Malthusian morality occurred during the time Presidents Reagan and Bush I were in office and refused to acknowledge the AIDS epidemic.
As long as it’s the poor succumbing to opioid deaths or some other plague, US citizens can feel assured their federal government, along with Big Pharma, will be happy to see the poor suffer and die.
As for addiction remedies, it is incumbent upon American citizens to save themselves from the feds as well as certain state governments; or to alter or abolish their government.
“As for addiction remedies, it is incumbent upon American citizens to save themselves from the feds as well as certain state governments; or to alter or abolish their government.”
Same conclusion I came to.
I can describe Malthusian philosophy in one word = evil.
Keep in mind that many of the drug prohibitionists – who labeled themselves as ‘Progressives’ – of the early 20th century were Social Darwinists, as well. Contrary to popular belief, the ‘Progressive’ views of the era were not driven by compassion, but eugenics.
And even though drug prohibitionists of today would scream bloody murder at the thought that eugenics remains the source of (ahem) ‘drug control policies’, the population sub-groups (‘cocaine n****rs’, mad Mexicans and the ‘yellow peril’) targeted by those ‘Progressives’ via drug prohibition back then remain targets today.
Truly, the toxic fruit did not fall far from the poison tree. And drug law reformers cannot help but notice that the vast majority of the prohib cohort, then as now, do not reside in any those targeted groups. One could be forgiven for suspecting that perhaps the prohibs covertly share their philosophical predecessor’s racial and cultural prejudices, the same ones used to ‘justify’ the laws.
Internet journalist James Corbett has an excellent video on the subject of how eugenics wound up in American national policy, IMHO well worth your time: Why Big Oil Conquered The World
The subject of drug prohibition is hardly mentioned, but Corbett makes it clear that a lot of national policy from early last century (to include drug prohibition, of course) that remains in effect today was derived from the attempt to implement eugenics courtesy of legislation.
Like I keep saying, these prohibs would normally be deserving of pity for being so delusional if they weren’t so rabidly, murderously dangerous.
Kap, it took me a couple of days but I viewed both of James Corbett videos. You were right, they’re worth watching. I was aware of some of this history but I learned a lot.
I had never before made the connection between Eugenics and how Rockefeller and Carnegie shaped U.S. health care.
I think the American soul was ripped out when Big Pharma captured medicine at the expense of non evidence-based herbs. Control the research and you control the population.
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I had a new-doctor appointment yesterday. On a form, they asked: “What must be discussed with the physician today?” Here’s what I wrote down.
I’m likely playing a dangerous game, e.g, refusing x-rays, colonoscopy, blood tests. I’m telling them because they’re supposed to be the evidence-based people (but are not,) that I’m not interested in patient compliance . I’ve adopted the role of “lil’ farma” weed sales rep rather than patient.
Did Rick Simpson’s video “Run From the Cure” turn me into an idiot? Perhaps, but weed is my friend and most certainly worth fighting for.
NCN and fellow Couchmates, Corbett has a great many videos of like content and intent. I would also recommend TruthStream Media YouTube Channel as well as Black Pigeon Speaks for equally ‘edgy’ content. That is, at least go there and have a look before they are ‘de-platformed’.
As to the racially eugenic intent of our drug laws, in my early days of drug law origin scholarship, I had, as we all do, come across the blatherings of one Harry Anslinger, whose obvious racism was echoed in his public writings. But even then his racism, which was admittedly more than endemic in society, was being challenged.
What had struck me the most was his almost monomaniacal focus on ‘degeneracy’ and ‘degenerates’; the impression conveyed was that there was a tacit, a priori assumption that there was something in the make-up of members of minorities that somehow caused them to be ‘inferior’ due to an inherent flaw, which, perforce, led them into criminality. Illicit drug use was seen as a symptom of genetically inherent moral turpitude on the part of minorities.
The underlying belief was that this ‘degeneracy’ was viral in nature, and could infect the dominant White population who associated with the minorities; the drug laws were meant to socially and politically control minorities but also to protect the racial ‘purity’ of the dominant portion of society and its assumed moral supremacy as well.
The further back I dug chronologically, the more pronounced this theme became. It was only when I learned of the associations of many of the early supporters of drug prohibition, their openly racist inclinations and their very open support of eugenics (which as Corbett pointed out, was very popular back in the day) that I had a better view of this largely hidden-in-plain-sight aspect of drug prohibition.
Drug prohibition is 19th and 20th century eugenics attired in 21st century fashions. Contemporary drug prohibitionists use the shibboleths of (pseudo)science to justify their actions, just as eugenicists did. And, as I pointed out, very few of those prohibitionists are among the groups so blatantly targeted by their ideological predecessors; this is not accidental.
I’m looking at CNN and they’re talking about how the World has 11 years to avoid global catastrophe.
Note to self: Need to find some heroin, preferably not white powder.
If you think a few thousand addicts fighting over the remaining heroin supplies is bad, try a few billion fighting over food. Face it, we’re all fucked.
The Algebra of GREED is why we’re fucked.
WARNING: Watching CNN or Fox News has been linked to addiction, psychosis, and lowered IQs in adolescents….
Here’s the piece at CNN. I found a better article at VOX that gives us one additional year for a grand total of 12.
Overall, I prefer BBC.
This is how post-glacial Stone-Agers survived their climate change crisis. If they could do it, maybe we can as well.
– Ottawa 2018 Mayoral candidate Clive Doucet
contrasted with this:
from Overdose Rescue Kits Save Lives , NPR program January 02, 2008
In other words, the exact opposite as Doucet: “…make sure that they die.”
And now, Madras is advising Trump on the (latest) ‘opioid crisis’.
I am reminded of the scene in Idiocracy where the average IQ President is being counseled by his moronic ‘advisors’
Now, reduce the fictional President’s IQ. That is today’s reality regarding the ‘opioid crisis’ in particular and ‘drug control policy’ in general. The same malevolent circus, the same evil clowns, the same not-so-comedic routines, over and over, again and again, for decades. All done for the sake of a long-forgotten eugenics experiment designed to breed a better human being…by killing off those deemed unfit.
The federal government wants your input on whether marijuana should be reclassified under global drug treaties to which the U.S. is a party.
https://t.co/j0neKG31qN
Declassification of all cannabis and its removal from the controlled substances act is what is needed.
“The time has come for marijuana to be removed from the federal drug schedules. There is no longer any doubt that it has significant medical value, and the science is clear that it is less harmful than many legal medical products,” he said. “While marijuana is not harmless — few, if any, products are — it poses less harm than alcohol to consumers and to society. The U.S. led the world into the quagmire of cannabis prohibition, so it should lead the world out of it by descheduling cannabis and implementing a more evidence-based policy.” – Mason Tvert, a spokesman for the Marijuana Policy Project
Last 4/20 I submitted my comments on CBD rescheduling to the U.N.. Like the FDA, the U.N. recommended that CBD be un-scheduled and removed from drug scheduling.
If the DEA is going to say fuck you to the FDA and the U.N. on CBD (which they did) why should we expect science to win over politics with rescheduling marijuana?
An exercise in futility or the potential for new and enlightened drug policy? Since the orange-haired clown spoke at the U.N. recently demanding international fealty to 1961s Single Convention Narcotics treaty, I suspectI already know the U.S. response to comments.
I think a very good case can be made for the removal and disbanding of the DEA, based on those very reasons.
The same with carrot head.
Been following this site since 2009. Sad to see it’s dead.
Is that you, Kev?
The Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sport (CCES) appears to have received too many blows to the head while tackling sports health issues on the playing field:
If CBD “can be dangerousâ€, where does that leave tobacco? CBD tinctures are currently being sold in California health food stores despite its continued listing as a Schedule 1 substance by the DEA. In the US, marijuana is seen as a sports medicine by many athletes.
On the plus side, the US border ban on Canadian cannabis workers was lifted, but “Canadians with pre-legalization cannabis convictions will still be inadmissible to the US…â€:
https://www.thestar.com/news/cannabis/2018/10/11/us-border-bans-on-canadian-cannabis-workers-lifted.html
File this under “Shit, shit, shit!” https://ottawa.ctvnews.ca/video?clipId=1513242&binId=1.1164511&playlistPageNum=1#_gus&_gucid=&_gup=Facebook&_gsc=E4hOrhb
Sorry about not shrinking the URL.
I tried the link, went to CTV and a big black screen with a list of videos under it. Nothing happened. What should I have done differently?
Video should start immediately…does for me. If not, try emptying your browser cache.
A bit of harm reduction technology in these instances goes a long way. Fentanyl test strips can save lives:
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Here’s a genuine black swan event:
He’s going show that he’s a real player that thinks he found the political solution of the century. I can wait two more years to make America great again – by not getting blackmailed into being his entry tool to get back into the WH.
I’d get eaten by lions in an arena before I would consider voting for him to return in 2022.
Ketamine is found to be as effective as intravenous morphine in reducing acute pain in hospital emergency departments (EDs):
Dr. Diane Kelsall, a chemophobe and an interim editor-in-chief of a Canadian medical journal, draws an imaginary line in the sand over legalized recreational marijuana in Canada while threatening Canadians who step over it with retaliation by bureaucrats:
Yes, that’s what it means to be legal; it means marijuana is deemed acceptable.
As for increases in usage, a precise number will be difficult to determine since consumption is moving from a once surreptitious activity to one that’s fully open. New initiates to cannabis will not necessarily be noticeable in the huge public rush to acquire a legal and acceptable product.
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Irrational fear and hysterical rhetoric are not sound bases for the formation of public policy.
Cannabinoids Usage In The Fight Against Oncological Diseases
https://t.co/mlrxqWPIxr
NHL stays with status quo as Canada pot legalization looms
https://t.co/yS5y35Q4VO
Oncology Clinicians and the Minnesota Medical Cannabis Program: A Survey on Medical Cannabis Practice Patterns, Barriers to Enrollment, and Educational Needs | Cannabis and Cannabinoid Research
https://t.co/d0SKZOeFev
The head of the United Nations International Narcotics Control Board said Canada’s legalization of marijuana contravenes international law.
https://t.co/JkEpPe9ugn
Marijuana Research Is Exploding In The Age Of Legalization, New Study Finds –
https://t.co/DYNZKg07yB
Implicit bias of the type found in the hysterical attitudes some people display toward marijuana consumers has been localized in the human brain by researchers. The location is in the anterior temporal lobe.
Lead author Maddalena Marini of Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, and Mahzarin R. Banaji of the Department of Psychology, Harvard University have the details:
The implications of Dr. Marini’s brain research foretell wonderful possibilities. Someday it may be possible to strap prohibitionists to a gurney and noninvasively zap their anterior temporal lobes to make them tolerant of cannabis and its devotees.
Basing conclusions on animal studies, Dr. Yasmin Hurd, Director of The Addiction Institute of Mount Sinai, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, says adolescent THC consumption changes the branching of neurons in a way that resembles the “networks observed to be impaired in the prefrontal cortex of individuals diagnosed with schizophreniaâ€:
The NIDA funded study fails to ask an important question: if so many adolescents alter their brain circuitry with THC in a way that resembles schizophrenia, why don’t all adolescents who smoke marijuana develop schizophrenia?
The answer may be that what appears to be a brain structure change due to schizophrenia is not a cause of schizophrenia. For the disease to occur, a pre-existing genetic component must be implicit in the diagnosis. Depending on which of eight types of schizophrenia occurs, each type has its own genetic component, and each affects its own unique section of the human brain.
If THC creates a similar neuron change in adolescent marijuana consumers and not just rats, it would likely require a lot of THC compared to the little that’s ingested over a period of time by most human consumers. Rat research can involve mega-doses of THC that rarely compare with rates of recreational use, as rats and other small animals tend to metabolize drugs faster than humans.
Dr. Hurd’s observations call for more research on humans, but do little to attain the Holy Grail of the NIDA—to conclusively connect adolescent marijuana use to psychosis.
Dosage is everything.
From Project CBD on cannabinoid drug interactions.
Can we draw any prohibition-related or political conclusions from this info? If you find weed unpleasant you’re probably not likely to be leading the fight to end Schedule I status of cannabis.
Dr Timna Naftali, an MD Specialist in Gastroenterology at Meir Hospital and Kupat Holim Clinic, Tel Aviv University, Israel, speaking at UEG Week 2018 in Vienna, reveals new medical information regarding cannabinoid treatments of Crohn’s disease:
Cannabis Withdrawal Symptom (CWS)? Or is somebody just going off their cannabis meds too abruptly?
Anyone familiar with the medical uses of cannabis recognizes the symptoms being associated with CWS in the press release are in fact symptoms that can be treated by cannabis. In particular, anxiety initiated depression can be treated using cannabis.
Funded in part by the NIDA, an agency infamous for spitting out disinformation about marijuana, the study employs the language associated with addiction (withdrawal symptoms) to give a false impression to journalists and other readers that marijuana is addictive.
What’s happening with the test subjects is no different than when someone taking SSRIs for depression abruptly stops medicating: the primary symptoms, as well as some new symptoms, can return in a forceful way. Doctors advise people going off their SSRI medications to reduce their dosage over an extended period of time until it zeroes out in order to avoid severe discomfort.
Yes withdrawal from cannabis can have adverse consequences.
Archives: How Marijuana Unavailability Leads to Use of Harder Drugs (1969)
The 1969 marijuana shortage and “Operation Intercept”
Collaterally Damaged Kids
New York Nine Year Old Girl With Dravet Syndrome
Dies Without Medical Marijuana
New York lawmakers passed a medical marijuana bill last month, but the law won’t go into effect for another year and a half. Since its passage, two other children with seizure disorders similar to Conte’s have also died
Anna Conte, the child whose family has been at the center of New York’s medical marijuana debate for months, had a rare condition called Dravet Syndrome that caused her to experience as many as hundreds of crippling seizures every day. Children with similar conditions have successfully treated their symptoms with cannabis in states that have legalized the drug for medicinal use.
Available Treatments for Marijuana Use Disorders
Medications that have shown promise in early studies or small clinical trials include thesleep aid zolpidem (Ambien®), an anti-anxiety/anti-stress medication called buspirone (BuSpar®), and an anti-epileptic drug called gabapentin (Horizant®, Neurontin®) that may improve sleep and, possibly, executive function.
Other agents being studied include the nutritional supplement N-acetylcysteine and chemicals called FAAH inhibitors, which may reduce withdrawal by inhibiting the breakdown of the body’s own cannabinoids.
Future directions include the study of substances called allosteric modulators that interact with cannabinoid receptors to inhibit THC’s rewarding effects.
Drug Worriers preferred methods of treatment
Preferred Treatment of Racketeering Opponents
of a 4 yr old girl using cannabis for Epileptic seizures
@DdC
CBD is an allosteric modulator of THC-induced psychoactivity.
An allosteric modulator can increase (positive) or decrease (negative) the effects of neurotransmitters on receptors. CBD is a negative allosteric modulator of THC, or as PhD Jahan Marcu of ASA calls it, a “dimmer switch.”
So does “future directions” include the allosteric effects of CBD?
Is this an early “off-label” push for the new FDA-approved purified CBD product, Epidiolex?
Only GWPH I’d imagine. Except why trade 4 or 5 profit pills with more side effect profits. For one pill with few if any se? They are beyond reason and the ability to reason. There is no logic or even humanity behind drug worrier tactics or policy. What we see Trump do, the DEA has done to stoners and reformers for half a century. Profits fighting Hobgoblins. The idiocy of treating cannabis withdrawal or fake addictions with debilitating white powders, especially kids in SAM forced rehabs. Beyond reason.
Drug Index A to Z
(Ambien®)
delusions, dementia, lack of feeling or emotion, thoughts of killing oneself, confusion, shakiness.
(BuSpar®)
Chest pain, confusion, fast or pounding heartbeat, fever, incoordination, mental depression, muscle weakness, numbness, tingling, pain, or weakness in the hands or feet, skin rash or hives, sore throat, stiffness of the arms or legs, uncontrolled movements of the body.
(Horizant®)
Bloating or swelling of the face, arms, hands, lower legs, or feet, discouragement, feeling sad or empty, irritability, lack of appetite, loss of interest or pleasure, rapid weight gain, tingling of the hands or feet, tiredness, trouble concentrating.
(Neurontin®)
Clumsiness or unsteadiness, continuous, uncontrolled, back-and-forth, or rolling eye movements.
More common in children
Aggressive behavior or other behavior problems, anxiety, concentration problems and change in school performance, crying, depression, false sense of well-being, hyperactivity or increase in body movements, rapidly changing moods, reacting too quickly, too emotional, or overreacting, restlessness, suspiciousness or distrust.
Really? And it only took them five editions of the DSM to figure this out? It most certainly is a highly disabling condition if you’re in the treatment industry.
One in ten experience cannabis withdrawals. Even if this were true, which I doubt, that means nine out of ten consumers do not experience this phenomenon. Nevertheless, in the minds of prohibitionists and other political time-servers, this justifies the whole drug war project, i.e. to “protect” ten percent of the public from themselves. Good grief….
In a potential buzzkill for the marijuana industry, a group of researchers led by Dr Gabriella Gobbi at McGill University Health Centre have isolated an optimum CBD dosage for pain relief that excludes THC as well as any of THC’s euphoric effects that might cause agonizingly painful trepidations among moralizers:
With marijuana, the risk of euphoria is significantly greater than the risk of addiction.
Euphoria can upset the entire moral balance of some of the more than 4,200 religions practiced throughout the world. Chief among the offended religions are those that embrace the theology of a third century Neo-Platonist named Plotinus.
Plotinus advised against seeking pleasure or euphoric experiences as he believed it made people less likely to accept their own death—or at least to accept death in the appropriate way. For rulers and monarchs, recalcitrance on the part of the poor to self-destruct, or for soldiers to die on a battlefield, thereby forgoing a ‘good death’, could be affected by a desire to get stoned just one more time, to enjoy some decent food, or a nice, cool, spring day. Extreme dangers indeed.
For most people, Plotinus is full of it. There exists a greater danger than euphoria. It’s called stress:
Smaller brain volumes…so much is explained by noting THC’s anti-stress capabilities and applying it as a wake-and-bake remedy.
The University of Texas research implies middle-aged and older anti-marijuana activists, as well as devotees of Plotinus, may suffer from insufficient brain volume due to untreated stress. Compounding the problem, if the individual is a conservative, that person can have a larger fear center in their brain further reducing available brain capacity for critically needed cognitive grey matter functions.
It will come as no surprise to many scientific and political observers that in today’s drug war, brain research is revealing prohibitionism to be a mental pathology.
Western or Allopathic medicine just can’t help itself when it comes to cannabis. Quick, let us slice and dice the plant into single expensive molecules before the public realizes how badly we’re ripping them off by continuing to demonize THC.
The use of rodents for medical studies makes sense when you have unknown products of unknown safety. A common term used in studies is “patient years.” It’s a way of evaluating any side effects or dangerous potential in the study population.
It can accurately reflect (i.e., longterm studies) or it can more poorly represent future problems if/when studies are of a few weeks duration. CA’s MMJ population of hundreds of thousands of patients have compiled a “patient years” number that easily exceeds a million years.
A Million plus patient years with ZERO fatalities. With that record of safety there is simply no rational or legitimate reason to not use humans for cannabis studies. That way, we’re not left with “extrapolation” of injected CBD into rats and then converted into human doses. Presumably NOT in injectable form. The Pot Needle?
I’m really fucking tired of CBD being considered the “good” cannabinoid. Single-molecules are a money-making scam for idiots who prefer money over patient health.
Return the lab rats to Trump’s Towers from whence they came. Enroll humans in cannabis studies.
Any kin NCN? I like her prediction.
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No NorCal kin for me but I do like the image.
One major roadblock for phytocannabinoid medicines which include more than a minimal amount of THC is that there’s truly no way to get reliable results from a double blind clinical study. Seriously, assuming you were a study subject how long would it take for you to deduce whether you got the real thing or the placebo? The placebo cohort could possibly be kept in the dark by telling the study subjects that the THC has been magically modified to eliminate that pesky euphoria but that would only fool the subjects who received the medicine containing the THC for an hour at most.
I’m most certainly not saying that phytocannabinoid medicines containing THC should be ignored because the so called “gold standard” can’t be used. I’m saying that the gold is tarnished and needs to be polished.
This comment is dated because it fails to take into consideration the negative allosteric effects of CBD on potential THC psychoactivity.
The phytocannabinoid medicine Sativex (a 1:1 ratio of THC to CBD) from GWP has undergone placebo-controlled clinical trials.
Research roadblocks exist for high-THC products without CBD, but that’s not the same as saying phytocannabinoid medicine can’t meet the Gold Standard of clinical trials.
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Oh wow, how the heck did I miss that Sativex got FDA approval?
I’m looking for a nonpsychoactive cannabinoid that stimulates thirst or helps a patient hydrate more. I know thc causes the Munchies and Cottonmouth but can’t find any lit on the other CBN’s. Anyone know of something?
☛ CBD Is Everywhere
☛ Not all cannabinoids—the active chemical compounds in marijuana and hemp—get you stoned. Some may increase focus and suppress appetite.
New legislation could legalize every nonintoxicating cannabinoid in marijuana plants, opening a market for sleep aids, stimulants and more. Here, the compounds with the most buzz.
As of October, 46 states have passed some kind of CBD legalization; the use and sale of the compound is not explicitly allowed under federal law, but the law is not often enforced.
Now, with support from Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, the 2018 farm bill might legalize every cannabinoid except the psychoactive compound THC.
Studies in mice have shown that THC-V suppresses appetite and may help regulate blood sugar levels and reduce insulin resistance.
CBD and THC are widely used as sleep aids, but some researchers say CBN is more effective. “CBN is the next one on the listâ€
THC-A, when heated, becomes THC, which gets you stoned. But some researchers say THC-A could help those uncomfortable with intoxication. “It has all the benefits of THC without the psychoactivityâ€
☛ Antibacterial cannabinoids from Cannabis sativa: a structure-activity study.
All five major cannabinoids (cannabidiol (1b), cannabichromene (2), cannabigerol (3b), Delta (Δ9)-tetrahydrocannabinol (4b), and cannabinol (5))
☛ Cannabis tolerance and tips to naturally reset your body’s endocannabinoid system
Finding your ideal cannabis dosing levels can help keep you from building a tolerance to its calming and pain-reducing effects. When you exceed your optimal dose, you may find that you quickly lose those benefits. Most people automatically increase their use to regain those desired side effects. In doing so, at certain levels, benefits can decrease even more.
☛ Endocannabinoids
Finally, on all this, scientific proof backing up our years of well known “Anectdotal” evidence. Cannabis is a strange and very wonderful plant. It’s always going to seem odd to me that the haters… the fearful… the prohibitionists didn’t give outright lying about cannabis a second thought. It looks like they would have wanted to do a little real research on the substance before they started destroying people and their lives over it. You’d think. But they didn’t. They actually squelched any such research. My ability to think without being told what to think, tells me that there’s a reason for that. Pure, unadulterated, hateful evil in some humans? I’ll grant it might have been ignorance for some of them. But even the misled and ignorant did actually choose ignorance and blind allegiance to bad people over legitimate, real and unbiased research. They might not be the ones that we usually think of that will sneak up on you at night and rob you blind… but they are the type that will make a rule for you… then sneak up on you at night… or in the daytime, and rob and kill you over it. Then all piously and self righteously they will say it’s your own fault. Virtuous Bill Bennet comes to my mind.
It’s not just cannabis. It’s been 75 years, 6 months, and 11 days since Dr Albert Hofmann intentionally ingested 250 micrograms of LSD. On 19 April 1943, the drug kicked in as he rode his bike, creating “Bicycle Day”. Today scientists at the University of Zurich announced how LSD works in the brain:
Watch this video of Trump at the Pittsburg synagogue. Listen to the short piece of him speaking about anti semitism (20 seconds) starting at 1:00 with you eyes shut. Then go back and watch with eyes open. You will HEAR a classic example of sociopathic word-salad, then you’ll SEE the conman’s snake-like hand and shoulder distraction gestures. This man’s body language gives him away as a living lie. His own anti semitism is obviously a cause of cognitive dissonance and he’s literally squirming as he speaks.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-gop-congressman-keith-rothfus-synagogue-shooting_us_5bda05b3e4b01abe6a1adffe
Below are some additional observations of Tsar Trump’s disingenuous compassion at his Tree of Life synagogue rally:
In his epic book, The Language of the Third Reich (1957), Victor Klemperer cites Hitler’s speeches as an attempt to self-deify in order to get people to believe in him, as opposed to merely believing him [p. 104]. In the 1930s, words and meanings in the German language took on new nuances and connotations that served the interests and focus of Hitler or the Reich, and not necessarily the German people, nor anyone else. As Trump emulates what fascists do, watch for attempts by him or his base to manipulate the language or its moral implications.