The Supreme Court and Flushing

Posted on May 8, 2020 by Pete

There’s an old Guitherism:

The entire philosophy behind SWAT-style drug raids is that the death of a mother, a child, or the family pet is an acceptable risk to prevent flushing.

I spent years railing about the drug-war exception to the 4th Amendment, and so I tend to still perk up when I hear discussions about it.

So this headline caught my attention: Why a Toilet Flush Is Chief Justice John Roberts’ Worst Nightmare Come True

Ah, finally, a critical 4th amendment case?

No, merely the sound of a toilet flushing in the midst of online oral arguments.

Naturally, this hit pretty much every news outlet.

Grow up.

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8 Responses to The Supreme Court and Flushing

  1. swat stopper says:
    May 11, 2020 at 11:11 pm

    Probable cause to raid Clarence Thomas?

  2. Servetus says:
    May 13, 2020 at 1:55 pm

    The Supreme who flushed his or her licit or illicit medical prescription and/or its metabolites into the Potomac River via the commode may be guilty of doing harm to the environment.

    Pollution control agencies warn all citizens alike to never flush their unused medicines down the toilet because water treatment plants currently can’t remove the substances that affect fish and wildlife.

    Supreme and non-Supreme human excretions send the chemicals into the water supply nevertheless. Cannabinoids are no big deal. But flushing Big Pharma’s products can create awful creatures like meth gators.

  3. DdC says:
    May 17, 2020 at 1:51 pm

    For more than 40 years, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) has fueled mass incarceration, wasted taxpayer money, and blocked scientific research

    The Breonna Taylor Shooting
    Shows How Reckless Drug War Tactics Lead to Senseless Deaths

  4. Servetus says:
    May 18, 2020 at 6:57 pm

    Women subjectively like marijuana more than men according to researchers at The University of Texas, Dallas:

    18-MAY-2020 — …By examining differences in neural (physical) and subjective (behavioral) craving responses, and measuring the relative contributions of each as it relates to heavy cannabis use, they found that neural activity primarily underlies response to cannabis cues with no differences between male and female users. This is followed by subjective craving, where there are sex-related differences – female users exhibit more intense subjective craving than male users. The findings imply that both neural and behavioral measures must be considered to understand underlying mechanisms of substance use and determine appropriate treatment interventions. […]

    Using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to measure neural responses, study participants were exposed to their most-commonly-used cannabis equipment, preferred fruit or neutral objects (such as a pencil) to compare their cravings. Subjective craving was measured before and after the fMRI scan. Sex-related differences in neural and behavioral response to cannabis cues and cannabis use were examined and measured in 112 heavy cannabis users (58 males and 54 females), using principal component analysis to determine the relative contributions of neural and behavioral response and cannabis use measures (e.g., years of cannabis use, grams of cannabis use in the preceding two months, and THC metabolite level).

    Researchers also found preliminary evidence that ovarian hormones may modulate this differential response and may be related to different levels of estrogen. Further investigation is needed in this area.

    “The greatest contribution of this study was to understand the differences in the effects of cannabis use in men and women on brain activity and subjective response. […]

    AAAS Public Release: BrainHealth Research advances understanding of differences in effects of cannabis use: Addressing differences will increase efficacy of treatments through personalized approaches

  5. Servetus says:
    May 20, 2020 at 5:08 pm

    Commercial grade full spectrum hemp oil reduces post-operative neuropathic pain in mouse study:

    20-MAY-2020 — …legal Cannabis hemp oil reduced mechanical pain sensitivity 10-fold for several hours in mice with chronic post-operative neuropathic pain. […]

    Distinguished from its still largely criminally prohibited cousin, “hemp” refers to Cannabis plants with less than 0.3 percent tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) per mass. […]

    This major breakthrough [regarding] cannabis prohibition now enables millions of Americans the ability to access a natural, effective, and relatively safe alternative option for treating chronic pain. Conventional pharmacological drugs, namely opioids, are driving the leading form of preventable deaths and conventional medical errors are the third leading cause of death in the U.S.

    The University of New Mexico has conducted a series of recent studies testing the effectiveness and safety of consuming the Cannabis plant, but this is the first study measuring the therapeutic potential of legal hemp oil with low THC levels.

    “Cannabis plants with low THC are still psychoactive, but tend to result in less psychedelic experiences, while still offering profound and often immediate relief from symptoms such as pain, anxiety, and depression,” says co-researcher, Dr. Jacob Miguel Vigil, associate professor in the UNM Psychology Department.

    Using a chronic neuropathic pain model that exposes mice to post-operative neuropathic pain equivalent to several years of chronic pain in human clinical patients, the researchers were able to examine how hemp oil influences momentary pain sensitivity to the affected region. For several hours after Cannabis consumption the mice demonstrated effective pain relief, approaching the mechanical pain sensitivity of naïve control mice that did not undergo the surgical operation. […]

    The study examined the effectiveness of “LyFeBaak” hemp oil, produced by Organic-Energetic Solutions, which has been available for legal purchase in New Mexico since 2019. “We grow hemp that is optimized to potentiate the plants utmost health and vitality through hypermineralization techniques, rather than merely plants that are grown in a state of fight-or-flight, which unfortunately is common in the cannabis industry. These techniques have enabled us to produce hemp products that patients swear are effective for treating dozens of mental and physical health conditions. The new changes in hemp laws are now allowing us to test these claims,” adds co-author and hemp grower, Anthony L. Ortiz.

    Hemp plants contain numerous therapeutic constituents that likely contribute to analgesic responses, including terpenes and flavonoids, which in theory, work together like members of a symphony, often described as the entourage effect,” says fellow researcher, Jegason P. Diviant. Several clinical investigations have shown that medications based on synthetic cannabis analogues and isolated compounds tend to offer lower reported symptom relief and a greater number of negative side effects as compared to whole plant, or “full-spectrum” Cannabis flower and plant-based extracts. […]

    UNM Newsroom: Legal Cannabis hemp oil effectively treats chronic neuropathic pain

    Original Publication: The Therapeutic Effectiveness of Full Spectrum Hemp Oil Using a Chronic Neuropathic Pain Model

  6. NorCalNative says:
    May 24, 2020 at 12:08 pm

    @Duncan

    Nice to see your comments today on Redheaded blackbelt website.

  7. Servetus says:
    May 29, 2020 at 5:57 pm

    Judeans at the holy of holies shrine at Tel Arad, Israel, (c. 9th to 6th centuries BCE) got high on cannabis:

    28-MAY-2020 — Analysis of the material on two Iron Age altars discovered at the entrance to the “holy of holies” of a shrine at Tel Arad in the Beer-sheba Valley, Israel, were found to contain Cannabis and Frankincense, according to new article in the journal, Tel Aviv. […]

    Two limestone altars (the smaller altar is 40 cm high and about 20 × 20 cm at the top; the larger is about 50 cm high and 30 × 30 cm at the top) were found lying at the entrance to the “holy of holies” of the shrine. […]

    The study reveals that on the smaller altar cannabis had been mixed with animal dung to facilitate heating, while the larger altar contained traces of frankincense that was mixed with animal fat to promote evaporation.

    These unique findings shed new light on cult practices in biblical Judah, suggesting cannabis was used here as a deliberate psychoactive, to stimulate ecstasy as part of cultic ceremonies.

    Lead author Eran Arie from The Israel Museum in Jerusalem commented, “This is the first time that cannabis has been identified in the Ancient Near East; Its use in the shrine must have played a central role in the cultic rituals performed there.”

    Frankincense comes from Arabia. Therefore, the presence of frankincense at Arad indicates the participation of Judah in the south Arabian trade even before the patronage and encouragement of the Assyrian empire. Arad provides the earliest evidence for frankincense in a clear cultic context. Frankincense is mentioned as a component of the incense that was burned in the Temple of Jerusalem for its pleasant aroma. […]

    AAAS Public News Release: New research reveals Cannabis and Frankincense at the Judahite Shrine of Biblical Arad

    Original Publication: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03344355.2020.1732046

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