We’ve showcased the outstanding work of cartoonist Stuart McMillan before.
Well, Stuart has a new drug-war-related piece about the Rat Park experiments led by Professor Bruce Alexander who saw the flaw in the research that had seemed to suggest hopeless addiction was inevitable with easy access to drugs.
Particularly if you’re not familiar with the Rat Park story, or would like a refresher, this is a really good read.
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This is excellent, Pete.
Question authority.
Held a week with criminally high bail without access to (non-weedy) medications, an atrocity waiting to happen.
http://www.kobi5.com/news/local-news/item/high-bail-for-marijuana-raid-arrests-sparks-questions.html
Judge Tim Barnack – Republican and drug warrior. Wisdom of Solomon not evident.
I saw a video of this judge, he’s awfully young to be such a prick about the drug war.
That judge is the reason why we need to tell women not to drink lots of alcohol or smoke tobacco while they are with child.
Frank W: Mrs. Duckworth will receive her deserved justice one day. Hopefully Guantanamo Bay will be used to house these drug warrior terrorists like the judge instead . . . he’s a synthetic American citizen.
bail has been dropped on all, hopeful for news of release coming soon
Justice and righteousness not present. What were they thinking putting this guy on a bench?
They were thinking; “Here’s a guy we can count on to do as we wish. He believes everything we tell him. We can control him.”
Are they trying those experiments on humans using Afghan Kush(they should have plenty)yet? It has to include cable,internet and Doritos but I am game.
It is time once more to ask the GAO for the total amount of tax dollars spent on marijuana research by NIDA,,we know there is a total kept somewhere in their paperwork because no self serving accountant would leave that column out but all the GAO will reply with is the pdf for NIDA’s budget,,which doesn’t report that total separately but as all studies.
Perhaps I am not wording my request properly but I figure the amount of tax dollars NIDA has spent on marijuana studies since it’s inception is in the billions of dollars,,so much they hide it because it proves they have already researched marijuana thoroughly for harms and found nothing to justify keeping it Schedule 1. It is why they are still funding more harm studies. Even more bizarre and unbelievable studies than ever as their house of cards trembles around them.
Ah, science. Mind-boggling to me that I’ve never heard of this kind of debunking of rat studies, (researchers not actually testing what they thought they were testing), and yet it makes perfect sense. Puts ‘science’ in a different light, and the drug war as well.
Nice to see that we may well gravitate toward social interaction when given the opportunity, and of course, unless severely challenged in some way, we may all follow this tendency.
I knew there was hope for humanity!
Stuart McMillan’s excellent depiction of rat addiction research explains the horror of addiction felt by those unable to distinguish cause from effect, those who believe poverty and other social degradations are caused by drugs. This condescending attitude is seen throughout the history of prohibition.
In the 1890s along Mexico’s west coast, Carl Lumholtz studied ritual pot and peyote (hikuli) use by the Tepecanos. Lumholtz noted:
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It probably never occurred to Lumholtz that Aztec Amerindians living in dreary mud huts on the nowhere-fringe of Mexico’s cities might get really bored, like caged lab rats on some days, and decide to do some recreational or religiously inspired drugs. The same is true of “criminals and the depravedâ€. By Lumholtz’s standards, and that of many others, Amerindians, criminals and the depraved aren’t allowed to feel good once in a while, nor to cure or treat illness using local folk medicines prepared from criminal substances like pipilzintzintlis, an Amerindian name for weed.
So why was pipilzintzintlis and hikuli on the official, government hit list in Mexico? Well, it seems there was an objection to these remarkable substances published by the Mexican Inquisition on June 19, 1620:
No one expects the Mexican Inquisition. Or, as an inquisitorial version of a one-time presidential candidate, Gov. George Wallace, might say, “inquisition now, inquisition tomorrow, inquisition forever…!â€
Another miracle medical marijuana milestone has just been crossed. Research from Tel Aviv has demonstrated that small amounts of THC suffice to protect the brain from damage due to hypoxia. Brain damage, as we know, is a common affliction found amongst prohibitionists:
One of the warmest feelings I get now is knowing Kerli,Sabet and Dupont are not receiving any of the benefits from marijuana,,I truly hope they believe the crap they spew and never partake,,,ever.
You can’t fool me Servetus. A person has to have a brain before he can suffer brain damage. Hah!
Just up from the Brookings institute. Nothing new here really. We’ve been ’round these topics here at “The Pete’s Couch Institute” and we’ve hashed these thoughts over dozens of times. But I just LOVE linking to a legalization paper that comes from the Brooking Institute. Even the Button-down-Clowns are getting it.
http://tinyurl.com/kcmbvjd
Oregon legislators (most) get it right (but a few need more edjimication): Oregon Legislature Votes to Allow PTSD Sufferers Medical Cannabis, and give a nod of respect – with bi-partisan support – to our veterans. Huzzah!
Former Microsoft Manager Has Big Ideas About Pot
CN By Bob Young May 30, 2013 Seattle Times
Former Microsoft manager Jamen Shively wants to create the first national brand of retail marijuana and to open pot trade with Mexico. Shively plans to announce that and more in a Thursday news conference he says will feature Vicente Fox, the former president of Mexico. “Let’s go big or go home,†Shively said. “We’re going to mint more millionaires than Microsoft with this business.†He’s acquiring medical-marijuana dispensaries in Washington and Colorado, he said, and plans to become the leader in both the medical and adult-recreational pot markets. He sees the marijuana market as the only one of its size in which there does not exist a single established brand. Read More…
Ex-Mexico President Praises Wash. Pot Businessmen
CN By Gene Johnson May 30, 2013 Associated Press
Washington state businessmen who say they’re trying to create the first national brand of marijuana received some heartfelt support Thursday from the former president of Mexico, Vicente Fox. Fox appeared at a news conference in Seattle, where he recounted how the war on drugs has ravaged his country and praised the states of Washington and Colorado for voting to legalize the recreational use of marijuana last fall. Read More…
The Free Mexican Air Force
not a usual news source for me but for sure a good read…
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